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** today we watched a clip of invasion of the body snatchers and took notes on the central protagonist. Also we studied how1950s sci-fi is different to modern blockbusters.we were going to watch some of war of the worlds but we didn't have time. We are starting to do more note taking to do with characters such as ray farrier. ** || ** 7/9/11 ** ** today we watched some of the film Gattaca and Blade runner, we were asked questions about things like there dress code or the mise on scene his house, we then put those answers in an analytical paragraph and compared them to ray ferrier in The war of the worlds. ** ** 15/9/11 **  ** Today we watched the start and end of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, we looked at why there was an epilogue added, we decided it was because it left the viewers thinking it was a happy ending instead of them thinking they were all doomed we also looked at how Tension is built in sci-fi films. ** ** 14/10/12 **  ** Today we looked at how women are stereotyped in media, we looked at a loreal advert of laetitia casta, we discussed her dress code, the background, her body language and how consumers are drawn to the product, we came to the conclusion that she was trying to bring across a very mature and sophistocated look, the advert also looked like she was trying to be a femme-fatale character by dressing in a little black dress. ** || ** On friday we watched some more of the film independence day and we made notes on the special effects and looked how todorovs theory fitted into the film. we also made notes on how the film targeted the audience. we found that the character who worked out how to distroy the ship was a man very ordanary so we could relate to him. ** ** 7/9/11 **  ** Yesterday we watched part of war of the worlds and we took notes on the central protagonist's dress code in wich we found he wore very casual clothes. we also took notes on his personality and quailty of life and found that he had a very cluttered house and a broken family, this is tipical for this genre. ** || ** On Tuesday we watched clips of the films Gattaca and Blade runner, and made notes on the central protagonists in both films. We then attempted to write a short paragraph, comparing them to Ray Ferrier in War of the Worlds. ** || ** Today in class we watched some more of independence day. From this we learned **** about how Sci-Fi films are similar to real life, how Sci-Fi keep the audiences attention through a long film. We also were introduced to 'Allegorys'. I didn't really understand what these were. ** ** 7/9/11 **  **On Friday we took notes on Ray ferrier's dress code, personality and behavior towards other people and especially to his daughter. We also found out what role ray's duaghter plays in the film and took notes on why she was put into the film.** **14/9/11** **Today we watched invaders of the body snatchers. We watched multiple endings to the films and chose why the director and directing company may have wanted the different endings by thinking about real life situations that happened around the time of the film being made.** || ** Last weeks lesson we watch the middle/end of independense ,we worte down notes on how it keeps the audience hooked. Also we tried to find the allegory in the film ** ** 7/9/11 ** ** Today we watched clips of war of the worlds and wrote notes on the central protagonist's, charactor , dresscode , personalityand behavoir to other people.We also took notes on the central protagonists daughter. ** ||
 * ** Brown, Nicholas **
 * ** Bryant, Christopher. **
 * ** Clayson, Christopher **
 * 6/7/11 **
 * Today we watched the film inderpendance day, we were asked to see how special effects were used and how the film kept the audience interested. Also we learnt about allegory and tried to find what inderpendance day's allegory was. Moreover we learnt about todorovs therory and how it connects to Inderpendance Day **
 * 7/9/11 **
 * today we watched clips of war of the worlds and we treid to work out how it was connected to typical sci-fi genre. Also we watched some clips of Blade runner and Gattaca which we include in our paragraph explaning how ray ferrier is a tyipical sci fi charther**
 * 14/9/11**
 * today we watched invasion of the bodysnatchers and we saw how tension was created in it. Also we looked at the multipull endings and beginnings of the films and disscused why the director and the production company hade different oppinions on the matter** ||
 * ** Day, Samuel **
 * ** Gallon-Samson, Abigail- 19/07/11 Today we watched a part of 'invasion of the body snatchers', we had to think about our first impressions, of the main character. And I thought that when the plot of the film was introduced near the beginning it didn't add as much climax as it would of done if they had put it later during the film. We also watched the film in Black and White which I thought made the film look more classic. We thought about what the differences are in making a film now and making a film during the 1950's I thought that it made a difference because there is a bigger budget now, then there was then. There's more advanced technology to use for making special effects in films, instead of 'cardboard and string'! ** ||
 * ** Gaudie, Joseph **
 * ** Goldborough, Charles ** ||
 * ** Horton, Michael **
 * ** Jarvis, Jessica ** ||
 * ** Johnson, Beth **