Screen Education articles from March 2005

Screen Education archives from March 2005

Screen education events.
March 22, 2005... Access All Areas--Complimentary VIP Pass An invitation to film students and tutors in film to explore and enjoy Australia's online movie resource. You are invited to use the resources of the site with unrestricted VIP access: go to your...

Virtual Angkor: visualizing the past in 3D: review of Sacred Angkor stereographic panoramas of the temple complex in the virtual room, Melbourne Museum, narrated by Lee Lin Chin.
March 22, 2005... Imagine being able to travel though time, arriving in a prehistoric era where dinosaurs rule; seeing but not being seen by them. Or perhaps travel through space; making a quick journey to Mars to explore the red planet in search of signs of...

Split screens: the cultural politics of German film.(3 Germany)
March 22, 2005... In the popular imagination, German film is often associated with fascism in particular the large-scale propaganda documentaries Leni Riefenstahl made for the Nazi Party. Television documentaries about the Second World War have recycled this...

Growing pains: Hating Alison Ashley.
March 22, 2005... Robin Klein's novel, hating Alison Ashley (1984), is about the complexities of growing up. It focuses on Erica Yurken (Saskia Burmeister), a confused and insecure teenager who is obsessed by a sense of inadequacy, and her relationship with...

Incredible movies: the secret identity behind children's film.
March 22, 2005... To a child, adults must sometimes seem like superheroes. They are super-fast, super-strong, and super-smart. They wield enormous amounts of power over the smaller, ordinary people, and yet they have their own tragic weaknesses, just like...

The forgotten genocide: 'Hotel Rwanda': introduced and supported by background material, Hotel Rwanda gives teachers and students an opportunity to explore one of the most marginalized conflicts of the late twentieth century.
March 22, 2005... Over the course of three months in 1994 almost one million Rwandans were killed in an unprecedented wave of violence perpetrated by majority Hutu extremists on their Tutsi neighbours. This massacre has never been given media attention...

Brand realignment.(movies create/destroy brands)
March 22, 2005... In 1934 the underwear industry in North America hit a crisis. Clark Gable, screen icon and heart-throb, undressed (for an Oscar) in It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934) and revealed under his shirt only a bare chest. The on-looking Ellie...

America's leading man: voting for a happy ending in the 2004 presidential election.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... In Primary Colors (Mike Nichols, 1998) Susan Stanton (Emma Thompson), wife of Presidential hopeful Jack (John Travolta) adopts a private persona, in addition to her public guise. Observing her as we do through the eyes of young staffer Henry...

Time To Go John: how to teach a politically engaged media program.
March 22, 2005... The early 1990s saw a substantial decline in films with a pronounced political subtext. With the fall of the Iron Curtain, the unprecedented economic rise in the West and American popular culture's steadfast march into previously unconquered...

Outfoxed: Robert Greenwald's Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism is another documentary that has managed to be financially successful while deliberately taking an overtly political stance on the subject matter it is investigating.(Video Recording Review)
March 22, 2005... Like Michael Moore's hyped Fahrenheit 9/11, Greenwald's film uses documentary as an effective and popular form to rouse public debate. The commercial success of Outfoxed is an illustration of the creative implications of new media...

Al-Muajaha online: the failure of a Western internet model in Iraq: Al-Muajaha, 'the Iraqi witness', is an independent print and online newspaper that was founded by a group of students after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
March 22, 2005... Published in both Arabic and English, the online edition appeared to have enormous potential to fulfil the international part of al-Muajaha's mission statement: 'to provide a voice [for the Iraqi people] that can reach the world'. (1) It was...

Insects: friend or foe?
March 22, 2005... This year 2 unit of work is problem-based to address how insects affect our school community. The children are fascinated by the insects and spiders they observe while in the playground and collect them regularly. Some have been bitten by...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.(movie production)
March 22, 2005... 1. Introduction This article revisits and continues ideas and themes introduced in the teacher resource for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, published in issue 37 of Screen Education. Teaching and learning activities are once...

Bertie Botts every flavour beans and other magical treats.(learning confectionaries product design, packaging, marketing)
March 22, 2005... Investigating Confectionery Packaging Using 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (Chris Columbus, 2001) as a teaching resource--suitable for Years 4-6 This unit of work was developed using the 'Learning by Design' template...

Filmmaking across the curriculum: a beginner's guide.
March 22, 2005... Part 1: Introduction Finding your story and starting pre-production (scripts and storyboards) FILMMAKING WITH STUDENTS is a lot of fun. It is also a very powerful and rewarding tool for teaching and learning. User-friendly digital...

The digital multimedia mentoring program at Thornbury Darebin College.
March 22, 2005... 'ALL WHO ENTER MY TOMB will be punished until their organs dry out and their bodies melt to ashes!' A charming little curse that students from Penders Grove Primary included in their script for The Curse Of the Mummy, a short film shot and...

What is this media literacy thing? Primary and secondary classroom ideas from across Australia.
March 22, 2005... The Australian Children's Television Foundation can supply all of the resources described in these activities. For free online lessons and worksheets visit the Learning Centre at www.actf.com.au. Search using 'Film Language'. The ACTF also...

Global collaborations: a realistic and exciting option for schools.
March 22, 2005... In February 2004, Charles Clarke, The British Education and Skills Secretary, said: An international element to learning can dramatically improve the quality of education. There is a lot we can learn from other nations. We live in a...

The essential guide to teaching screenwriting.(PART IV)
March 22, 2005... Resources For Students & Teachers WHEN WRITING A SCREENPLAY, especially if it is your first attempt, there is an overwhelming feeling of being alone. In fact, to the uninitiated, there might seem to be an overwhelming number of guides and...

Sexy and stylish: Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing.(FILM AS TEXT)
March 22, 2005... Shakespeare onscreen Films and televised plays of Shakespeare rarely satisfy everyone. The too-often-heard negative criticisms are that 'Shakespeare' (the plays) belongs only in a live theatre or that the printed poetry of the published...

Secrets and Lies: the shock of otherness.(FILM AS TEXT)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh) appeared in 1996. A year later two events occurred which changed Britain. In 1997, after eighteen years of Thatcherite rule, the Labour Party swept to power with a massive majority. The last time this happened...

The biggest show on earth: replaying the games.(The Gamesman)
March 22, 2005... The Gamesman It stays the same and yet it constantly changes so it's a pretty interesting job and, of course, it is the Olympics. I mean, it doesn't really get any bigger, This is the main event. John Clarke, Olympic Supremo ...

To Kill a Mockingbird: seeing the film through the lens of film language and media literacy.(FILM AS TEXT)
March 22, 2005... An American media educator seeks to help teachers in the US teach the film better with his online film study guide and an exclusive four part series in Screen Education. Using To Kill A Mockingbird on DVD Teachers now have a new...

Power and misrepresentation in After Mabo.(documentary movie)
March 22, 2005... The political documentaries of John Hughes have shown a consistent concern for history, Indigenous issues, media representation and power, (1) and After Mabo is no exception. Released in 1997, the documentary deals with a number of events...

A sort of war memorial on celluloid: Gallipoli.(FILM AS TEXT)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... After the relative triviality of Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Peter Weir wanted to make a much more serious film, one set on the Western Front during the Second World War, and someone suggested (what now seems quite obvious) that he make a...

Screentech.(Technical section)
March 22, 2005... DECEMBER SAW THE ANNUAL AUSTRALIAN EFFECTS AND ANIMATION FESTIVAL (AEAF) and DV-Fest at Darling Harbour in Sydney; putting plenty of goodies on show for media creators working in just about any medium imaginable--from celluloid through HD,...

David Williamson: The Jack Manning Trilogy: Face to Face, A Conversation and Charitable Intent.
March 22, 2005... We live in a world where conflict is resolved in aggressive, confrontational and vengeful ways. Evil doers, as averred somewhat disturbingly by the United States President, are to be 'smoked out of their holes' and eliminated from society to...

Kes Gray: Ever So, Ever So.(Children's Review)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Ever So, Ever So is the second collaboration by the multi award-winning British children's writer Kes Gray with illustrator Sarah Nayler. It continues the humour, style and thematic interest of Baby On Board, which traces the nine months in...

Lyn Yates: What Does Good Education Research Look Like? Situating a Field and its Practices.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... In What Does Good Education Research Look Like? Situating a Field and its Practices, Lyn Yates argues that, in current contexts, education researchers who are self-aware and reflexive are likely to have an advantage. This is because research...

Resilience Education and Drug Information: The Big Move, My TV, On The Edge, REDI for school.(Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training)
March 22, 2005... Resilience: power of ready recovery from sickness, depression, or the like; buoyancy, cheerfulness. The Macquarie Dictionary Resilience--it's a word that's been bandied about recently as a cure-all for society's ills. Resilience can...

Resource for teaching VCE Media units 1-4: Michael Considine for the Australian Teachers of Media 2005.(Victorian Certificate of Education)
March 22, 2005... This guide has been prepared to assist teachers and students to quickly locate articles published in Screen Education (SE) Australian Screen Education (ASE), Metro Education (ME) and Metro since 1993 (the last time such a guide was published)...