Hi! This new wiki is where we will investigate film techniques and try to create our own film clips. This wiki can also be used as a film dictionary, including:

• Definitions
• Explanations of effects
• Examples from students and from TV

Your work on this site will make up part of your English learning and assessment.

Outcomes to be covered:

• 1.8 the features of increasingly complex imaginative, factual and critical texts, including the cognitive, emotional and moral dimensions of the text and its linguistic and structural features
• 1.10 the use of variations within conventions of particular genres, including forms of poetry, fiction and film and how these variations address the composer’s purpose
• 2.5 assess the achievements of their own and others’ compositions and responses according to specific guidelines of effectiveness for purpose, audience and context
• 2.9 processes of representation including use of symbols, images, icons, stereotypes, connotations, inference, and particular visual and aural techniques including those of camera, design and sound, to create cohesive texts
• 2.10 the ways composers, including authors and film-makers, use processes of representation in composing texts
• 3.1 respond to and compose increasingly complex texts in different technologies considering the effects of the technology including layout and design on meaning
• 3.2 identify and critically evaluate the ways information, ideas and issues are shaped by and presented through technology
• 3.3 use advanced word processing tools including formatting of references and bibliographies, formatting multiple page documents including weblinks, importing data from internet and manipulating images to compose and format texts for different purposes, audiences and contexts, including the workplace
• 4.10 the metalanguage for describing, explaining and justifying the composer’s choices of language forms and features and structures of texts in terms of purpose, audience and context
• 6.4 compose texts using a range of literary and non-literary texts as models
• 6.8 ways in which film-makers transform concepts into film, including consideration of script, story lines, sustained perspective, and visual and aural components of film-making and their interaction
• 8.5 compose texts to experiment with patterns, representations, intertextuality and appropriations
• 8.6 compose texts by complying with, adapting or subverting the conventions of form, genre and ideology.
• 11.5 use individual and group processes to generate, investigate, document, clarify, refine, critically evaluate and present ideas and information drawn from books, the internet and other sources of information
• 11.7 reflect on and assess their own and others’ learning and learning strategies against outcomes, criteria and guidelines established for tasks
• 11.14 ways of managing information and communication technologies for effective learning