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** Last lesson we larned about films in the 1950`s and how they were based on the Cold War (When america was afraid of invasion from outsiders "communists".They were araid because they didnt want their system of capitalism taken away and so anyone they they thought was a communist they would put on trial.One of those people was the director of "Invasion of the bodysnatchers" Which was based on the american fear of outsiders. ** || ** in the last lesson i learn that there wa a person called todoro and he made up a theory about sci-fi films. we watched the end of independance day and we had to write what we thought the meaning of the film was and i learnt that the meaning of the film is we take the world for granted and the aliens tried to destroy it to show us how much the world should really mean to us which was a good way of showing this ** ** last lesson we looked at how 1950 sci-fi films used a different typical hero and how they were more formally dressed and things like that we also looked at how much the special effects had changed using technology over the years ** ** last lesson we had to write a paragraph about war of the worlds analysis the part i found a little bit hard was explaining my ideas in detail ** ** last lesson we looked at how invasion of the body snatchers builds tension so we looked at the different camera angles and the music that builds tension to make the audience intrested to watch the whole film and we looked at why the film producers didnt want to use the ending don siegall wanted because then it would give the audience no hope ** || In last lesson we looked at the 1950's sci-fi films and how they were based on the events around that time. The films then were lower budgit and didn't have as many specail effects. we learned how the central patagonist wasn't an outsider because people then were afraid of the 'outsiders' so they were based in small communitys. i understood everything in the lesson. in the last lesson we were writing paragraph entries, I understood everything in the last lesson || ** in the last lesson we learnt about what kept the auidiences attention through the film also what builds tension and the ingrediants to make a good blockbuster. We are now looking at Todoror's theory and comparing his theory to independence day. ** ** in the last lesson we were making notes on the main characters of war of the worlds and bade runner at the end of the lesson we had to write a paragraph about the main character in war of the worlds and i didnt think i was struggerling to write in great detail ** ** on wednesday lesson we learnt about how adverts advitised products and in the next lesson we looked at the dress code of the people in the advert and the colours that was in the advert. ** ||
 * ** Richards, Evan **
 * ** Senior, Annabel **
 * **Smart, Matthew, In the last lesson we started to look at 1950s sci-fi films. 1950s sci-fi films are mainly based on events of the cold war and the fear of outsiders (communists), because of communists the main characters in these films aren't outsiders like in many modern sci-fi films because in the time they were made there was a fear of outsiders and that they would destroy capitalist countries, so the main characters tended to be normal people or very respected people of the community,E.G. doctors, family men /women and successful business men.** ||
 * ** Stokeld, Kaitlin **
 * ** Tucker, Anna **** In the last lesson i learnt about what made a blockbuster and how the audiences attention was kept through out the film. We also learnt about 'Allegary's' but im still not to sure on what it means. ** ||
 * ** Turnbull, Eleanor **
 * ** Tyerman, Seb **

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** IN the last lesson we looks at 1950's films and how the differ from the modern blockbuster and how this linked to things that whent on at the time, such as the cold war, and how this fueled the films message( invation of the body snachers- fear from invaders- communists). ** ====== || ** In the last lesson we watched most of the end of independance day and looked at Todorov's theory and how independance day conformed to this theory- but not completely. We also thought about how other films could conform to this theory. ** ** Today we watched a clip from invasion of the body snatchers a 1950's flim and looked at the features of early sci-fi flims, we then compared them to the features of a blockbuster. We also learnt that the main charachter from an early sci-fi film tends to be well respected but the main charachter in a blockbuster tends to be more of an outcast. ** ** We wrote about about the charachters in different films today, we watched blade runner and Gattaca and compared the main charachter in blade runner to the main charachter in War of the worlds, I found setting the writing out hard. ** ** I the last lesson we looked at how tension is built in sci-fi, we watched the begining of war of the worlds and made notes on the opening epilogue and narration. Wew then watched some clips from invasion of the body snatchers and again looked at how it built tension. ** || ** in the last lesson we watched some of independance day and we learend how the aududiances intrest is kept and we learned todorors theory ** ** last lesson we watched the some of war of the worlds and we wrote aout how it conecterd to sci fi and how it conected to blade runner and gattica ** In the last lesson we watched more of Independence day and though if it was connected to any event that have happened in the world, we did this because most sci-fi films relate to what is happening in the world. We decided that the film Independence day was relating to the threat of terrorists and outsiders, we thought that the aliens were representing the outsiders/ terrorists. The film also shown how we first reacted to the outsiders, we just fought with them, but has time went by we found out more about them and how to beat them in a war. in the last lesson we watched invasion of the body snatchers and we looked at how it builds tension we watched the endings with the one that ends when no one would listen to miles then the one where he was in the hospital and then the doctor found out that the pods were real ||
 * ** Walker, Lauren **
 * ** Wilcox, Callum **