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15/7/11 Today we watched a bit of war of the worlds to help us in our essay we also started to write a paragraph.The thing that confuses me are the camera angles. Today we where finshing our sci-fi blockbuster topic and we learned how to analyse movie images which i think will help me alot with writing my first essay.we also watched the endof independence day so see how the director finshed the movie and sloved the inpossible with a unsuspected hero who came and saved the world. **Today we were looking at 'What makes a good blockbuster?' Ths was very helpful because it told us what ingredients you need to make a good blockbuster - this helped me understand what we were looking at and helped me understand the lesson better.** || **4/7/11** **Today we looked at a sheet explaining how old Sci-fi is and how its changed we also highlited the points we thought might help use with our GCSE.** **We were looking at 'What makes a good blockbuster?' I understood everything and found the 5 things a blockbuster needs very useful. We then watched part of 'Independence Day' we were looking at special effects and how the audiences attention is grabbed. I now know more about blockbusters and I understood everything in the lesson.** ** Today, we were looking at what makes a good Sci-fi Blockbuster, and discussed the deeper meaning behind the plot of the films. We also watched a bit of Independance Day. I understood everything in this lesson ** || 07/09/11 In media today we looked at clips from two sci-fi films. We took notes on the central protagonists dress code, mise en scene and their relationships between the other characters. We then started to write a paragraph which could be used in our essay. I found it easy describing how different films showed genre conventions to the ones I mentioned from 'War of the Worlds'. I struggled to add camera angles but really enjoyed the lesson as always! 15/7/11 Today we finished looking at blockbusters. As it was the last time will be looking at blockbusters before we do our first essay it was very important that we understood what blockbuster usally have in them. At the start of today’s lesson we finished off some simple sentences so we understood how we answer questions in the near future but so we also could start to do it now. Then we watched 'The Day After Tomorrow' by Roland Emmeric where we looked at how it conforms to a sci-fi blockbuster. This was a good test of what we have learnt about blockbusters. 11/7/11 Today we started our lesson with a quick recap at the words Todors theory, parallel narratives, blockbuster, mise en scene and typical character traits in sci-fi. This was then followed by what you need to include in an essay which is a vital part of the coming years work. To finish the lesson we watched the end of 'Independcnce Day' and started to write about why it is a typical blockbuster. All of this is preperation for the next activities in this topic and in other subjects in the next few years. 4/7/2011 To sart todays lesson we read through and highlited points on the A3 sheet of paper and answered question 5, part 3. This was followed by watching a clip from 'Independence Day' where we recorded notes about the special effects and how the audience's attention was grabbed. I fully understood all of todays tasks. || ** 7/09/2011 ** ** In lesson today we took notes on clips off 2 different films. The notes were on the central protagonists dress code, house (mise en scene) and there relationships with oter characters (family). After that we wrote a paragraph that could be used on our essay. i found adding camra angles capeabble but struggled to correctly identify them. ** ** 15/7/2011 **  ** today we finnished looking at blockbusters. at the start we looked at some simple questions from a essay paper so we understood how they were expected to be answered. After that we watched the first part of day after tomorrow to see how it appys to a typical block buster. ** 11/7/2011 today we were looking at 'How is independence day a typical blockbuster and how would it appeal to the audience?' we were also looking at what were would have to include in a assessment like camra angles and parallel naratives also that independence day uses todorov's theory. at the end we watched the last part of Independece Day with the dramatic bits in it! 4/7/2011 Today we started to watch independece day and to understand how to understand the adience and to right notes on characters. ||
 * **Norton-Armstrong, Elle**
 * ** Peacock, Holly **
 * 4/7/2011**
 * Today we were looking at 'What makes a good Blockbuster?'. This was very useful and i understood everything. I learnt the 5 different ingredients that makes a successful blockbuster sci-fi. I also learnt and understood the different special effects and how the audinece attention is grabbed in the sci-fi film 'Independence Day'. I can now understand more about Blockbuster sci-fi films.**
 * 11/7/2011**
 * Today we looked at Sci-fi films, but focusing on writing. We recapped some of the key words we had already learnt this year like Mise on Scene, Central Protagonists....Then we watched the last 20 minutes of Independence Day and wrote down notes on 'How the film ended?' and 'How is the ending like other Sci-fi films ?' Then for the last 20 minutes we wrote a paragraph explaning the 2 questions, this was practise for our esay coming up, trying to achieve high levels.**
 * 15/7/2011**
 * Today we finished off the topic of Sci-fi blockbusters. We focus on 'Analysing moving images' which will be very useful for when we come to write our frist esay. For the first part of the lesson Miss gave us some scentences (which we had to finish off) explaning in detail why this was happening or why the director put that in the movie. For the second part of the lesson we started to watch the first part of 'The Day After Tomorrow' and a few other scences relating to what we were writing notes on. We were writing notes on 'Ways the film conforms to a typical Sci-fi blockbuster?', this was things like tension, special effects, action...**
 * 7/9/2011**
 * Today we watched 2 clips from 2 famous Sci-fi films and made notes on them in our books. After this we started to write a pharagraph on 'How War of the Worlds conforms of a typical Sci-fi film?' including 1 of the films we have made notes on in our books. I found this easy to start off but when we had to intruduce a film that had a similar central protagonist i found it hard to start off. I didnt finish off my paragraph but i think we will get more time in other lessons.** ||
 * **Richardson, Elizabeth**
 * 11/7/11**
 * Today we looked more at writing about Sci-fi films and so first, we recapped some of the things we had all ready learnt this year like Todorov's theory - that all narratives follow the same structure; equilibrium, Disturbance, Quest, Reinstatement of equilibrium. We then watched the ending of Independence Day and looked at how it shows the end. I wrote a paragraph on the impossible situation which is resolved at the end for example I wrote 'When David and Steve didn't look like they had made it the director did not show us them landing safely he made us think that possibly they had died.' We also looked at key things a blockbuster has and how this would help us achieve a higher level. I understood what we did today.**
 * 17/7/11**
 * Today we finished the topic blockbusters. We looked at 'Analysing moving images' which will help with our essays. We were given sentences to turn from just a fact to explaining in detail why it happened and why the director put it in. We then watched the first part of The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich 2004) and looked at in what way does it conform to a typical Sci-fi Blockbuster. Some of the things The Day After Tomorrow had was tension, special effects, a famous monument destroyed, stock characters, parallel narratives...**
 * 7/9/11**
 * Today we watched part of 2 famous Sci-fi films and made notes on the central protagonist in our books. After this we started to write a paragraph that might be useful with our essay. We had to compare one of the other main characters we looked at today with with the central protagonist from WoW. I found it hard to compare similar central protagonists and I didn't finish my paragraph but I understood the rest of the lesson.** ||
 * ** Scott, Georgia ** ||
 * ** Stokeld, Rebecca **
 * **Storey, Rebecca **
 * ** Von Morgen, Dayle **
 * Today we looked at what makes a good blockbuster sci-fi, we also looked at independence day and how special effects were used in it. We looked at how sci-fi has changed from just being medium popular books to world wide best sellers on huge budgets. We recognised how names of directors and actors can make the difference of a blockbuster hit or a 'bottom shelf' small seller.** ||
 * ** Young, Katherine **