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Last lesson we continued to watch war of the worlds and wrote notes on the characters and how they are stereotyped. We were also asked to think about how typical they are of the science fiction film genre.I understood this lesson. Last lesson we talked about parallel narratives and audience appeal and started to watch Independence day and took notes. In class we have been looking at the representation of women in adverts and how this can be expressed through facial expressions, posture and the womans surroundings. We have also taked about maslow's human needs such as the fashionista or the beauty bunny and how these categories are stereotypical of many adverts feauturing women. We then discussed audience appeal. In class we have started to write our draft essay for this topic. || **. Narrative** **. Characters** **. Parallel narratives** **. Audience appeal** **. Setting** **It was ok and I understood the film but I jumped at the bit where the aliens head splits open. :3** || ** Last lesson we started to watch independance day which is a sci-fi blockbuster previously we looked at what you would expect from a Sci-fi blockbuster. ** ** We then began to watch independance day it was intresting to compare todays special effects and graphics have developed from the 1950's sci-fi movies which we have been studying over the past weeks... anyway whilst watching the movie we made notes on the movie for example- ** ** -the Narrative ** ** -Parallel Narratives ** ** -Characters ** ** -Setting ** ** -Audience apeal ** || **Last lesson we talked about parallel narratives and blockbuster sci-fi. We started to watch Independance Day, which has about 3-4(ish) parallel narratives.** **On the topic of blockbuster sci-fi we have to make notes on...** **-Narrative** **-Parallel Narratives** **-Characters** **-Setting** **-Audience Appeal** || **Last lesson we continued to watch independance day and we made notes on the film for example...** **.the narrative** **.Characters** **.Settings** **.Audience appeal** **.What the alien looks like** **and Parallel narratives.** ||
 * ** Ashurst, Megan **
 * ** Barlow, Alexander ** ||
 * ** Blair, Emma ** ||
 * ** Brennan, Eleanor Umm we watched war of the worlds and made notes :) We have also been watching Independence Day and making notes on **
 * ** Cosgrove, Harry ** ||
 * ** Diamond, Sophie **
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 * ** Fenny, Jamie **
 * ** French, Euan : ** I realise I should have been filling this in earlier, but I haven't, so I must get you up to speed. Over the past few weeks, we have been examining 1950's sci-fi films, looking at how it fits in with certain theories and the message behind some of them. ||
 * ** Godley, Billie ** ||