Maui's Dolphins - Co-Construction Day 7

Year 9s

Another big focus on vocabulary today. I decided to give them all the words at once so that when we start analysing the film the language is familiar.
Words they had to define and give effects of today were:

Camera Angles

• High Angle
• Low Angle
• Tilt
• Eye-Level

Camera Movements

• Pan
• Tilt
• Zoom in
• Zoom out
• Tracking

Lighting

• Natural
• Soft Light
• Hard Light
• From above
• From Behind

Colour

• Bright
• Neutral
• Pastel
• Dark

Sound Techniques

• Non-diagetic Music
• Diagetic Music
• Dialogue
• Monologue
• Soliloquy
• Sound Effects
• Voice Over

Because these students are brand new to film analysis, I know that all these words are arbitrary and meaningless to them right now. However, I'm hoping that by introducing them, as we go through them over the next couple of weeks, they'll become adopted more readily. This is a change for me from last year where I didn't explicitly give the vocabulary they needed. Now that they have the list, I'm hoping that the contextual learning of vocab will be more readily absorbed.

Year 10s

Today we continued to work on their projects. I started with presentation skills - reiterating the need to have a solid purpose and audience in mind and how to address their audiences. Different vocabulary for children than for adults, for example.

Five students went down to the library to continue working on slides presentations (can't be done on tablets). The rest were working on devices or in books in the classroom. Success when finally one student who doesn't use a device finally organised himself to print out material to bring with him to class.

Both Levels
I have seen this in the notices this morning, and am strongly suggesting that the students turn up for it: