Year 8 Resources and links
Week 1 what is media?
What is media?? You may have some ideas of what media is all about. Here are two short videos to help you understand the five elements of media.
Task Today you need to create a poster of your holiday fun. Use the internet to google images that represent the things you did over the holidays. Get creative with colour and text styles Once your done you need to save your work into your newly created media folder. |
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Week two swat codes
What are SWAT Codes? These elements of media are vital to understanding how we construct meaning and create media. There are a number of different ways that media tries to get the ideas they are presenting across. There are particular ways that they do this. These particular ways are called SWAT codes. Symbolic – Objects, body language, settings, colours/lighting Written - Headlines, captions, speech bubbles, language style, subtitles Audio – Music, sounds Technical – Camera shots, camera angles, editing and special effects |
TASK
Research the technical codes of camera shots and angles. Then create a powerpoint or word doc of your findings. |
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week three dust echos introduction
Dust Echoes is one way that we are bringing everyone back to the same campfire; black and white. We are telling our stories to you in a way you can understand, to help you see, hear and know. And we are telling these stories to ourselves, so that we will always remember, with pride, who we are.
Tom E. Lewis, Djilpin Arts Aboriginal Corporation
Dust Echoes Unit Outcomes and Learning Intentions
Analysis of the curse
The main message is about being aware of and protecting yourself against evil and harm.
The story is told mostly to chlidren to keep them close to the camp at night. Namorrodor is a night creature, who should be feared. It also tells of the power of medicine and the knowledge of the elder in the camp. There are some key elements of the film that influence our feelings and reactions Graphic Style; What do the people look like? What does the background look like? What colours are used? Music; Is it traditional Aboriginal music? How does the music influence your reactions? Is it effective? Sound effects; What sounds did you hear? Viewpoint; There is no camera filming the action in each story, but you can see the artisits presenting the images as if there is. What are the camera angles used? Does the camera remain at ground level, or does it change angles? Does it move? What is the effect or impact of changing out viewpoint as we watch the film? Narration; Some of the stories have a narrator. What sort of voice is it? How does the narrator tell the story? Does he just speak, or are there other elements that he includes? Is it effective? Does the story have any relevance to your life today? Explain your ideas Assessment Task
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Learning Intention; Understanding the meaning, values and morals in dreamtime stories
Investigation Task; For this assessment you will choose one of the twelve dreamtime stories from the website “dust echoes” and then answer the inquiry questions below to understand how the story teaches a message about traditional lifestyles.
Practical Task; You will write a review blog for the dreamtime story you selected.
Focus Questions
Where has the story come from?
What was the story about?
Who told the story?
Why is the story important to understand?
How does the story teach you about traditional life in Aboriginal culture?
Investigation Task; For this assessment you will choose one of the twelve dreamtime stories from the website “dust echoes” and then answer the inquiry questions below to understand how the story teaches a message about traditional lifestyles.
Practical Task; You will write a review blog for the dreamtime story you selected.
Focus Questions
Where has the story come from?
What was the story about?
Who told the story?
Why is the story important to understand?
How does the story teach you about traditional life in Aboriginal culture?
Week FOUR Continuation of ANALYSIS OF DUST ECHOES
Learning Intentions
- Develop an understanding of one of the stories on Dust Echoes
- Use research and analysis skills to help understand the cultural meaning of dreamtime stories.
Start by Logging on the the Dust Echoes website, the link is here on the right side of the page => =>
Steps to follow today Begin by looking over the assessment task again and asking yourself the following questions.
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week 5, 6 and 7 Continuing with our ASSESSMENT task
Learning Intentions
- Use research and analysis skills to help understand the cultural meaning of dreamtime stories.
- Answer all the focus questions and write the review blog draft copy and good copy
- Understand the meaning and how to create a blog post
Assessment is due Week 7. Final product will be a well written blog post on our class blog.
How to Structure you Review
Introduction
Include the name of the story, a brief description of the story, where the story comes from who tells the story
Idea 1 Paragraph
What is the story about
Idea 2 Paragraph
What is the moral of the story
Idea 3 Paragraph
Your thoughts. What have you learnt about Aboriginal culture from this story
Conclusion
Summarise your ideas and include a sentence like.. 'I would recommend this story to teach about....'
What are Blogs???
Blogs (short for "Web logs") are web-based diaries or journals -- online thinking spaces where we can write their thoughts. When we write a blog post we are giving the reader our insight, thoughts and feelings into the topic.
For this task we will be writing about how the dream-time story made us feel, what we learned from it and how it could help others. We are also telling the reader the importance of the story to the aboriginal people, giving the reader some background and understanding into life in Aboriginal culture. Remember you have become the expert it's time for you to share your knowledge.
You can add some photos to your post to help explain your thoughts if you like.
Below is a link to the Blogging PowerPoint from the lesson.
Introduction
Include the name of the story, a brief description of the story, where the story comes from who tells the story
Idea 1 Paragraph
What is the story about
Idea 2 Paragraph
What is the moral of the story
Idea 3 Paragraph
Your thoughts. What have you learnt about Aboriginal culture from this story
Conclusion
Summarise your ideas and include a sentence like.. 'I would recommend this story to teach about....'
What are Blogs???
Blogs (short for "Web logs") are web-based diaries or journals -- online thinking spaces where we can write their thoughts. When we write a blog post we are giving the reader our insight, thoughts and feelings into the topic.
For this task we will be writing about how the dream-time story made us feel, what we learned from it and how it could help others. We are also telling the reader the importance of the story to the aboriginal people, giving the reader some background and understanding into life in Aboriginal culture. Remember you have become the expert it's time for you to share your knowledge.
You can add some photos to your post to help explain your thoughts if you like.
Below is a link to the Blogging PowerPoint from the lesson.
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File Type: | pptx |
Next Step
- Once you have completed your draft copy of your review check with Mrs James for feedback. When your final copy is done and Mrs James is happy with your work we will then setup your blog page and you can copy and paste your review onto the site. Remember your blog can be read by classmates, and anyone who searches up our blog so make sure your spelling and grammar is right and your sentences are well structured and you ideas flow logically.
- You will need an email address to sign up as an author of our blog. If you don't have one Mrs James will help you set up a gmail account.
- Once your review has been posted to the blog we will then read each others posts and make a constructive positive comment on each one.
Understanding Art from Arnhem Land
In the Dust Echoes animations several of the stories are based on versions of the mimi style of painting and drawing. Traditional Mimi style painting depicting mimis, as thin spirit creatures displaying extreme agility and flexibility. Mimi’s are thought to be the original beings who occupied the land before humans and continue to live in rocks, caves, trees and water. TASK Research Traditional Mim Art on the internet and create a one page document that has three examples and includes a description of each. Below is a document on Rock Art from Kakadu National Park that might inspire your search. |
Links to Websites for research |
week 8 Introduction to Pinjarra massacre
Now that we have begun to appreciate and understand the cultural importance of Dreamtime stories we are going to move forward in time and learn about a local event that happened in more recent times that has had a profound effect on the Ngoongar people of our local area.
This week we will discuss the Assessment task and complete the investigation part of the task.
What were the reasons for the massacre? Who was involved in the Pinjarra massacre? Why do eye-witnessed accounts differ? When did it occur? How did it end? Extra information you can look for: How many people were killed during the massacre? |
Pinjarra Massacre
"The Pinjarra Massacre, otherwise known as the Battle of Pinjarra, was one of Western Australia’s bloodiest and darkest days. On 28 October, 1834, a party of men, led by Governor James Stirling, surrounded the camp of the Bindjareb Noongar people in Pinjarra and opened fired, killing up to 30 moort – family as they fled for cover. The Pinjarra Massacre or ‘Battle of Pinjarra,’ as the history books had it recorded, turned the tide of Noongar resistance to colonial invasion around the Swan River and Murray River region." http://www.noongarculture.org.au/gnaala-karla-booja A brilliant improvised comedy about Western Australia’s Pinjarra Massacre at Sydney Opera House 27-28 June. It was decided by the actors that they would perform the play as a comedy instead of trying to portray the "heartbreak and hell of the event".
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Assessment Task 2 Pinjarra Massacre
Learning Intention
Have a clear understanding and knowledge of the Ngoongar massacre in Pinjarra. To demonstrate practical skills in the creation of an animation.
Part 1 Task Investigation
For this assessment you will need to research the internet to find out the timeline for the Pinjarra massacre. You will then need to create this timeline using word.
Part 2 Task Practical
In pairs you are to create a Claymation movie from a section of the Pinjarra massacre timeline
Part 3 Task Review
Peer assess the Claymation movies
Learning Intention
Have a clear understanding and knowledge of the Ngoongar massacre in Pinjarra. To demonstrate practical skills in the creation of an animation.
Part 1 Task Investigation
For this assessment you will need to research the internet to find out the timeline for the Pinjarra massacre. You will then need to create this timeline using word.
Part 2 Task Practical
In pairs you are to create a Claymation movie from a section of the Pinjarra massacre timeline
Part 3 Task Review
Peer assess the Claymation movies
week 9 - part 1 task investigation
Learning Intentions
- Understand the assessment task 1
- Complete a timeline as a class using word and the internet to obtain the relevant information.
- Clear understanding of the events of the Pinjarra Massacre
Using the interactive website "Pinjarra Massacre" we will create a timeline of events leading up to the battle.
The purpose of this time is for us to understand the series of events that took place leading up to the battle. Once we have an understanding of these events we will be able to begin creating our Claymation of the story.
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week 10 - part 2 claymation production
Learning Intentions
Characters; Using the clay, what characters will we need to make? How will you differentiate between the different characters? What symbolic elements can you add to the models? Consider proportion, in some scenes we need a few characters in the final battle scene we need lots of characters. Props; What other props do we need? For example horses or the boats. Lighting; What can we use for lighting the scene? should the light vary depending on the timeline? Sound; What kind of sound effects do we need? What style of music should we choose to portray the right mood? Camera angle; For a successful animation we need a consistent shot size and angle, how will we achieve this and what will be the best angle? Editing; Each person will create their own edited version. Have you used imovie? What are some things you might need help with? What order should we edit the different layers of our animation? Should we lay the images, music or sound effects first? Why?
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