Weeks 1-3 Term 2

Since our return this terms our class schedule has been as follows:

27/04/11:  'Dulce Et Decorum Est' deconstruction continued
02/05/11:  'Dulce Et Decorum Est' response task
04/05/11:  NAPLAN practise writing task
05/05/11:  'Dulce Ed Decorum Est' response task continued
09/05/11:  NAPLAN revision and review
10/05/11:  NAPLAN Testing
11/05/11:  NAPLAN Testing
16/05/11:  Poetry Composition - Found Poem
18/05/11:  'War is Kind' - annotation, deconstruction and paragraph response

Monday - Period 2

Depending on your progress with last week's task, you will complete any or all of the following tasks today:

1. Completion of your written analysis of 'Men of Ore' on your Weebly.  This must be finished and published today.
2. Self-Assessment of your achievement of this task (see Mrs Lans for a sticker for your book).
3. Ensure the 'Contents Page' and all work that should be in your book is up to date.
4. Documentary Planning Sheet to be completed for your one minute documentary presenting the College from a positive or negative perspective.

Wednesday - Week 5 to Thursday - Week 6

Today you will commence your own deconstruction of a 1 minute sequence of the documentary 'Men of Ore'.  You are free to choose any one minute sequence that occurs after the 15 minute mark (already deconstructed in class).  View this sequence as many times as you need and make notes on the following:

1. the time mark of your chosen extract (eg. 16:34 - 17:39)
2. the content addressed during this extract
3. the film techniques employed -consider camera shots and angles, sound effects (diegetic and non-diegetic), lighting, soundtrack, archival footage/images, captions, editing (speed, aural bridge, transitions)
4. the effects achieved by the filmmaker in using these techniques, ie. what is the effect on the documentary audience (responder)

Refer to your 'Documentary Film Response Scaffold' to guide your deconstruction.  You can also discuss your thoughts with other students to clarify your ideas.  When you are ready, use the scaffold to guide your response that you will post on your Weebly.  Create a sub-page under the 'Non-fiction' tab called 'Men of Ore' and type your work there.

Tuesday - Period 4

Today we will continue with our deconstruction of the Australian Story documentary 'Men of Ore'.  You will see the first 15 minutes deconstructed for the techniques employed and the effect that each achieves for the documentary filmmaker.

Take a look at the 'Documentary Film Response Scaffold' in your books and familiarise yourself with the areas you need to address for your own deconstruction.

Thursday - Period 1

Here is the brainstorm completed in class following our viewing of 'Men of Ore'.  Any of these could become the  topic of your editorial for your assessment task.  Today you will receive some exemplars of editorials to guide you in terms of structure, language features and persuasive techniques.

In our lesson today we will begin to deconstruct the documentary in terms of filmic techniques and the effect they achieve on the responder.  Take note of the how a film sequence is deconstructed - you will be doing a sequence deconstruction on your own in the next few weeks.