Australian Screen Education articles from June 2004

Australian Screen Education archives from June 2004

Editorial.(Editorial)
June 22, 2004... Australian Screen Education 35 inaugurates our section on Primary media and screen education, brought together by Anne Cloonan and featuring the work and ideas of both theorists and practitioners in this burgeoning area. ASE is extremely...

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
June 22, 2004... In issue 34 of Australian Screen Education Andrew Hyde's article 'Shooting the Messenger' incorrectly cited Jane Mills as the Head of Screen Studies at the AFTRS. Jane Mills is in fact the former Head of Screen Studies, the current Head is Jane...

Screen education events.(Calendar)
June 22, 2004... Throughout the year there are many opportunities for screen enthusiasts, media educators and students to increase their knowledge of film, multimedia and photography. This column is designed to give teachers around Australia an idea of what is...

An unlikely hero: after an unexpected selection then triumph at the Cannes Film Festival 2002, the film opened in August 2002 in a small number of Parisian cinemas.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... A year and two million spectators later, the director and the 'star' of the film were touring France for packed sessions and Q&As, winning the prestigious Prix Delluc, voted amongst the Top Ten Films of the Year (seventh) by the readers of the...

Getting to know our boys.
June 22, 2004... The most eloquent response to Prime Minister John Howard's comdemnation of public schools as 'politically correct and values neutral' is the insightful and moving four-part ABC documentary, Our Boys. Filmed at Sydney's Canterbury Boys...

'After stuch knowledge' (1): representation and responsibility.
June 22, 2004... The desire to represent religious belief through artistic means is perhaps as old a human impulse as is the desire toward belief itself. In the past few months we have been exposed to a myriad of opinions focused on the intersection between...

Hutton, Jordan and ofcom observations on the media in the United Kingdom.
June 22, 2004... My original brief for this article was to write a commentary on the state of media education in the United Kingdom in 2004. Interesting things can be said about such a topic, for the triad of British broadcasters, regulators and politicians...

Ad nauseum: is advertising an art form, a cultural statement, or a sales pitch? Cynthia Karena talks to producer Victoria Thorne, advertising executive Glenn Ryan, and student Lucy Ward for three different views.
June 22, 2004... TV advertisements are like mini-films--they have a producer, a director, and all the other crew that is needed to produce fifteen to thirty seconds of film. In fact, most of the crew is usually borrowed from the film industry when they are...

Truth is stranger than magic: the marketing of Harry Potter.
June 22, 2004... I must confess to being a seriously reluctant reader of the Harry Potter books. In fact, I had sworn to ignore the books, movies, press releases, countdowns and statistics, the interviews with children breathless with admiration for the young...

Primary school teacher resource.
June 22, 2004... This edition of Australian Screen Education features a collection of articles addressing the theme of 'multiliteracies', a word that was invented to re-envision notions of what it meant to be literate as we approached the twenty-first century....

1 Multiliteracies in the Early Years: Filming and Professional Learning.(Primary School Teacher Resource)
June 22, 2004... Do you know much about multiliteracies? Yes, no... kind of... Would you like to learn more? Sure. Would you like to work with two experts in multiliteracies? Of course... And would you mind if I brought a crew into...

2 Multiliteracies: the Story So Far.(Primary School Teacher Resource)(Interview)
June 22, 2004... Anne: So, would you say that the 'multiliteracies story' started in September 1994 when you invited a group of academics together to look at issues of communication? Mary: Bill and I have always been interested in the context of diversity...

3 Web Passion: Developing Interests Using the Web.(Primary School Teacher Resource)
June 22, 2004... ABOUT THIS LEARNING ELEMENT This Learning Element offers ideas for the exploration and critical analysis of the World Wide Web. It suggests a pathway for the students to build on their learning interests and experiences, utilizing and...

4 Body Talk: Making and Interpreting Meaning.(Primary School Teacher Resource)
June 22, 2004... LEARNING OBJECTIVES This learning element is designed for use with five to six year olds. It supports students in recognizing that there are layers of meaning in texts and that texts are constructed through a variety of modes. Students can...

5 Using The Girl From Tomorrow in your classroom today.(Primary School Teacher Resource)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... About The Girl From Tomorrow (Kathy Mueller, 1991) The Girl From Tomorrow is an exciting science fiction (SF) feature length telemovie in the time-travel tradition that follows the adventures of Alana, a spirited thirteen-year-old girl...

The Cat in the Hat: study guide.(Critical Essay)(Cover Story)
June 22, 2004... About the film Although they don't realize it, today is a very special day for Conrad and Sally. After all, what's so special about being left with a sleepy babysitter while your mum goes to work? And how special is it if you are not...

Self-made man The Shawshank Redemption.(Film As Text)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... The Shawshank Redemption (1994) plots the career of a quiet man who endures seemingly endless hardship to enact a plan that will set him free. It is one of a number of American films that appeared in the early 1990s that dealt explicitly with...

The world in a fresh light: To Kill a Mockingbird.(Film As Text)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... HARPER LEE FIRST d her manuscript of Mockingbird to the publisher, she was told that it seemed more like a series of short stories than a novel. Echoing Lee's Alabama girlhood, Robert Mulligan's 1962 film often feels like a series of moments...

The mystery of being in Gattaca.(Film As Text)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... HIS LYRICAL FILM, directed by Andrew Niccol in 1997, is a fusion of many parts. Using established science fiction and horror movie conventions, it engages with ethical and moral debates about cloning, genetic determinism and, on a more mundane...

Presentation and representation in Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine.(Film As Text)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... FILM AS TEXT MICHAEL MOORE'S MOST recent film, the enormously successful Bowling for Columbine (2002), is a documentary that proposes that there is a connection between gun violence in America and an institutionalized climate of fear. (1)...

The Third Man: scene by scene analysis.(Film As Text)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... Film As Text THIS IS THE FINAL INSTALLMENT in Mark Nicholl's authoritative account of Carol Reed's The Third Man. The following scene by scene analysis provides not only a detailed reading of this film, but an excellent example of how to...

'Down these mean streets a man must go ...' Film Noir, masculinity and The Big Sleep.(Film As Text)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... FILM NOIR WAS THE TERM coined by French critics to describe a distinctive style in American cinema during the decade after the war. Noir means black and this is literally what Film Noir is, 'black film'. Noirs are full of shadowy dark images,...

'A path of great courage': The Piano.(Film As Text)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... JANE CAMPION TOOK some time writing The Piano. She started in 1984 and directed two other films (Sweetie, 1989, An Angel at My Table, 1990), before The Piano was released almost ten years later. Ten years after the film's first release it...

'Such stuff as dreams are made on' (1).(Film As Text)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... Episode 1 'Something Rich and Strange' and Episode 2 'Full Fathom Five' Series One Furl fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth...

And in the end, the end, ever after, roll credits.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... 'The miracle of the cinema is how rarely the convention of the happy ending is broken, The bigger miracle is that the convention of the ending is never broken at all.' ********** I'm not sure where writer Zadie Smith (The Autograph...

Beneath Clouds: a film by Ivan Sen.(Study Guide)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... A FILM BY IVAN SEN Introduction BENEATH CLOUDS TAKES US ON A JOURNEY with its two main characters, Lena and Vaughn, as each tries to escape their past and head into a different future. Lena is a fair-skinned Indigenous Australian girl...

Apple computer case study: eMacs ELTHAM College of Education give students the skills to make their own multimedia future. Two ELTHAM students using eMacs were the only Victorian finalists in the presstigious 2003 ATOM Awards for outstanding use of multimedia in education.
June 22, 2004... Erase all thoughts of multimedia mediocrity. Give students the tools they need to express their dazzling feats of imagination. Those are the lessons learned at ELTHAM College of Education as it takes its students towards a limitless learning...

Run Lola Run.(Screen Zine)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... In the opening scene of the film Run Lola Run flashbacks are used to supply back-story to the viewer and increase their understanding. Several production elements are used to show the audience that the scene taking place is a flashback. ...

Australia's media ownership.(Screen Zine)
June 22, 2004... The media's role in society poses a modern day dilemma for the thinking person. We live in a critical information age where the acquisition and understanding of local and global knowledge has become an important pursuit. What is of substance...

Screentech.(Technical Section)
June 22, 2004... Hey, guess what's in the news this week? Yep, that's right (surprise, surprise) High Definition! It seems everyone is talking about it. All the companies want you to buy stuff to make it. All the editing systems are belting each other over the...

Institute of Ideas: Reality TV: How Real Is Real?(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... A week is a long time in television, so they say. In particular, where such hot potato issues as reality television are involved, two years is an eon. Here I am, two years after this nifty publication from the Institute of Ideas has been...

Steve Taylor and Kevin Densley: Last Chance Gas.(Theater Review)
June 22, 2004... Enter a domain of arch-surreality, where language, meaning and manners have been re-jigged to accord with the manic world in which the black comedy, Last Chance Gas, is set. All kinds of mean and wonderful transactions take place in a long,...

Institute of Ideas: Designer Babies: Where Should We Draw the Line?(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The possibilities of genetic engineering have had a long-held fascination in fiction, as has been charted and explored in such science-fiction literary works as Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale...

Nikki Gamble: Favourite Classic Writers.(Children's Review)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Favourite Classic Writers, written by lecturer, teacher and education consultant Nikki Gamble, is a bright, cheery introduction for mid-primary school children to the joys of knowing the tales behind the writing of books we all love. In fact,...

Mark Galli: Francis of Assisi and His World.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... As a committed fan of multi-discipline teaching--methods in which a subject is not taught in isolation from the history, music, art and science of the time--I looked forward to reading Mark Galli's book with the greatest of anticipation. As...

Emma Haughton: How Do Drink and Drugs Affect Me?(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The line between demonizing and lionizing How Do Drink and Drugs Affect Me?, (1999, reprinted in 2001) is a small publication in the Hodder Wayland (Hodder Children's Books) series of Health and Fitness. It takes on the topic in a format...

The IMAX experience[R]: big films, big stories.(Study Guide)
June 22, 2004... IMAX ENTERTAINMENT THAT ILLUMINATES THE IMAX DIFFERENCE IMAX is the largest and most exciting film format in the world. With crystal clear images, ten times larger than traditional cinema format, the IMAX experience draws you in with...