Australian Screen Education articles from March 2004

Australian Screen Education archives from March 2004

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... The role of Australian Screen Education is first and foremost as a vital resource, for teachers and students across a broad range of subjects and interests. It is a role that ASE takes very seriously, along with the responsibilities that go...

Letter to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
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Coming soon: the Australian Children's Television Foundation's new searchable web site for teachers.
March 22, 2004... Everything you need to teach about visual texts and multi-literacies is free online at www.actf.com.au, and now it's searchable. Also in this issue of Australian Screen Education, take advantage of the free video and video clips offer from...

With a little understanding ... neighbours and social values.
March 22, 2004... LOVE IT OR HATE IT, Neighbours is part of Australian culture. Eighteen years, nearly 4500 episodes, and it is still going strong. It is exported all over the world (it screens at least twice a day in England) and it is still rating solidly at...

The mundane and the frightening: the sorry state of current affairs.
March 22, 2004... Current affairs programs have always been part of the main fodder for TV networks, The majority have a need to know, or at least a need to t)e told what is going on around them. Now it seems that reality TV has come to satisfy a large chunk of...

Shooting the messenger.
March 22, 2004... A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, while I was in a cinema watching The Boys, some guys talking up the front were politely asked to be quiet. What followed was an unbelievable barrage of abuse, during which one of these guys pulled an empty vodka bottle...

'What's going to happen to Nicole Kidman in this town now?' A study in stardom.(Cover Story)
March 22, 2004... 'What's going to happen to Nicole Kidman in this town now?... Everyone will side with Tom. He has too much power here', mused Jackie Collins in The Australian Women's Weekly back in September 2001. IF SHE HAD BEEN RIGHT AT THE TIME, it...

The concept of the journey.
March 22, 2004... This is a slightly modified version of a lecture given at the English Teachers' Association of NSW HSC Area of Study Student Day at Darling Harbour on 3 November 2003. By my reckoning, you have all just embarked upon a journey that,...

Teaching filmmaking: whether you wanted to or not.
March 22, 2004... Camera If you're teaching filmmaking, students will basically ignore everything you say until you haul out the cameras. Then they will trample you, grab the goods and sprint off and start filming, invariably making the same mistakes as all...

Apple distinguished educator profile: promoting original thinking through the magic of multimedia.
March 22, 2004... IMAGINATION IS AS IMPORTANT as knowledge in the Digital Age, according to David Pedwell, Deputy Principal at McDowall State School in Queensland. Used effectively, Pedwell believes that technology has the power to inspire creative thinking and...

Apple computer case study: Essendon North: a living model of learning for life.
March 22, 2004... Fully integrated Apple technology combined with experiential teaching and learning creates a template for the future of education at a suburban Melbourne school. iMacs and iBooks in every classroom, personal web pages for every pupil and a...

Film school confidential: the inside story on how this year's successful AFTRS drama directing applicants made it.(Australian film television and radio school)
March 22, 2004... 'My advice for would-be applicants is to find stories which emotionally connect with their own experiences... True storytellers need to be emotionally brave, intellectually curious, and have a burning drive to tell their stories, which is...

Spirited Away: a film by Hayao Miyazaki.(Study Guide)
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION This study guide, to accompany the Japanese anime Spirited Away, has been written for students from years five to eight (ages ten to fourteen). It provides information and suggestions for learning activities across the Key...

Hildegarde: a duck film.(Study Guide)
March 22, 2004... About the film Hildegarde is a Saxony duck, the beloved pet of Christopher (14), Jeremy (12) and Isabel (9). Life is difficult for these three children as they struggle to deal with the recent loss of their father. They each try very hard...

Multimedia at Lara Primary School.
March 22, 2004... Over the years, Lara Primary School has had several finalists and winners in the ATOM Awards. Following the winning of both P-8 awards early in 2003, we were asked by ATOM to speak at the State Conference and discuss how we approach Multimedia...

Contextualizing the narrative: a step towards classroom cinephilia.
March 22, 2004... This paper, presented at the ATOM conference, Melbourne, December 2003, concentrates on one crucial aspect of teaching film narratives in Unit 3 Media Studies. It argues that, instead of solely focusing on the discussion of production and story...

The Third Man: background and context.(Film As Text)
March 22, 2004... WELCOME TO PART THREE and four of Mark Nicholl's series on Carol Reed's The Third Man. These two sections place the film historically and generically, providing a detailed context for watching, teaching and studying the film. The fifth and...

Clueless: transforming Jane Austen's Emma.(Film As Text)
March 22, 2004... NSW HSC Advanced English Module A: Comparative Study of Texts and Context Elective 1: Transformations Students choose a pair of texts and consider the ways in which transformations generate reflections on the texts, contexts, and...

The Fellowship of the Ring: the smallest of things.(Film As Text)
March 22, 2004... THERE ARE MANY POSSIBLE APPROACHES to a complex narrative like that of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001). One such approach is through history, which might involve considering the world-historical situation...

The power of the image: The Truman Show.(Film As Text)
March 22, 2004... ONE OF PETER WEIR'S reasons for wanting to film Andrew Niccol's script, The Truman Show, was that he was intrigued by the novelty of someone wanting to escape from paradise. (1) Certainly the harmonious and predictable existence depicted in the...

The Tracker: more than the sum of its types.(Film As Text)
March 22, 2004... THINK IT WILL BE USEFUL to think about the following questions. What type of film is The Tracker (Rolf de Heer, 2002)? Does it fit into a particular Hollywood genre, or perhaps more than one? Or does it have some characteristics which exceed or...

Lantana: a journey through the labyrinth of life.(Film As Text)
March 22, 2004... CAN WE BELIEVE IN LOVE? Loving someone means we have to relinquish power. It's mutual surrender.' 'Lantana is part mystery, part thriller and part journey through the labyrinth of life.' (1) Background Lantana was written by the...

Run Lola Run and American Beauty.(Screen Zine)
March 22, 2004... Narrative The opening sequences of Run Lola Run and American Beauty both raise possibilities that are followed through and resolved at the closing of the film. Lester Burnham in American Beauty starts off with a dialogue informing the...

Media ownership.(Screen Zine)
March 22, 2004... I have recently learned much about media ownership and am just writing in to express my opinion on the subject. There is clearly a dilemma with concentration in media ownership, however the problem is that there is little that can be done about...

Industry and production issues.(Screen Zine)
March 22, 2004... It is assumed that Australia not only embraces the notion of being considered the continent, 'down under', with a low density of populace, yet encompasses the most concentrated media ownership on a world scale. In 1903 Australia retained...

Screentech.(Technical Section)
March 22, 2004... 2004 has come and the media industry shakes and rattles with the usual convulsions of hesitation and doubt, but nonetheless trundles ever onwards toward its digital destiny. However, it won't be the development of digital cameras, digital...

My Mum Tarzan.
March 22, 2004... Title: My Mum Tarzan Author: Lisa Shanahan Illustrator: Bettina Guthridge What was the story about? The Mum had a big imagination. Sometimes she would dress up as Tarzan. She even sometimes dresses up as a fairy and an Egyptian...