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__** 6th july 2011 **__ **We watched a sci-fi film, independane day (roland emmerich 1996) an thought about how this gets a allegory message across. we also looked at how the special effects and central protaganists are dispayed and how they target the audience.** __ **19th july 2011** __ **Today we watched a clip from the invasion of the body snatchers (1956) and had a look at how real life events happening in the 1950's such as the cold were refleted in sci - fis made in the 1950's. We also looked at how the central protaganist and the setting are portrayed in the 1950's and i learnt how much they differ from films nowadays.** __ **7th september 2011** __ **Today we watched a clip from gattaca and one from blade runner. We took notes on the central protaganists dress code and personality and they wrote and analytical paragraph comaring them to ray ferrier from war of the worlds which we watched yesterday. I learnt how lots of typical sci-fi central protaganists share the same traits.** || ** 6.7.11 ** ** we watched part of inderpendence day and looked at how sci fi films sometimes have a hidden massage (allegorys). We also talked about how the main characters in block buster films are easyer to relate to because of their dress code and the look of their home. we also looked at what makes a film a block buster ****. ** ** 7.9.11 ** ** we watched part of the film gattaca and blade runner and looked at how the main characters are similar and diffrent to the main character in war of the world. we then started to write a paragraph to talk about what we had noted. the thing i found hard when writing the paragraph was looking for a deeper analasis and something deeper thet the director is trying to get across ** ** 14.9.11 ** ﻿**we watched the prologue and epilogue of invation of body snatchers and w looked at how the film was edited by the film company. this showed us how both the direct's and the film company's start and ending both build up tension in diffrent way and weather the directs ending was too dramatic and did not restore hope especially for the time it was released.** || __ ** 19th july ** __ **Today we watched the beginning of 'Invasion of the body snatchers.It is a 1950s sci-fi and we looked at how the central protagonist is different from the central protagonist in Blockbuster sci-fi films.The main character in I.O.T.B.S is the perfect hero for a sci-fi film because people in 1950 didn't like outsiders.Whereas the hero in Independence day was some one who wasnt perfect ,so we could all relate to them.** __ **10th July 2011** __ ** In Fridays lesson we looked at Todorons theory and how Independence Day fitted that theory.We also looked at how most sci-fi films have an allergory (hidden message) that reflects something in real life. ** __** 8th september 2011 **__ __ ** 10th july 2011 ** __ ** This week in lesson we have been watching the film 'independence day' (Roland Emirick, 1996) and filled in our sheets with 5 characters on it that we needed to describe their character function, their stereotype, their dress code and their similaritys between other centeral protagonists in other sci-fi films. ** __ ** 19th july 2011 ** __ ** This week we started to look at the beggining of the film 'the invasion of the body snatchers' ( Dan Siegel, 1946) we looked at how the film differed from the modern blockbuster films. in the 1940's people didnt really like anyone who was an outsider because of the cold war, so the film uses a very normal person as the central protagonist so the audiance can trust him and relate to him. ** __ ** 7th septembe **** r 2011 ** __ ** Today in lesson we watched 2 clips of the films gattaca and blade runner to anlise the actions of the main protagonists Jerome, and Rick Deckard and comparing the genre convesions of both movies to sci-fi movies in general. We also looked at comparing Rick Decard to Ray Ferrier in War Of The Worlds who both had similar dress codes and attitudes towards life. At the end of the lesson we wrote a paragraph about genre convesions and the centeral protagonist of the 3 films. i especcially struggle with explaining things more compexly and tend to write them more simply. ** __ ** 15th september 2011 ** __ ** today in lesson we watched parts of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegal,1986) we learned about how the prologue and epilogue change the movie compleatley and how the commentarys build tention. I learned that atleast 2 paragraphs of my essay should be on tention and how it is used in sci-fi. ** || ** 10th july 2011 this week we have been learning about block busters and the main features of sci-fi films such as the central protagonists,stock characters andhow sci-fi films reflect in real life !!! ** ** :) **  ** 19th july 2011 this week we have been watching the beggining of "the invasion of the body snatchers"(dan siegel)the central protagonist is a good choice because he is afraid of bieng invanded by the outsiders in this case they are the "body snatchers" the audience can relate to the main character because he is just a normal average american living in a small town where everybody knows each other....BUT FOR HOW MUCH LONGER? **  ** 15th september 2011 **  ** this week we have been studying how tension is created in films such as war of the worlds and invasion of the body snatchers. we found out that tension is made through narration,prolugue and epilogue ** || ** We have been whatching 'Independence Day' and analysing hidden mesages or allegorys. before this we have been looking at central protaganists in the films 'Independance day' and 'Minority Report'. We were studying their dress code and character traits to see if they conform to sci-fi connventions! ** ** 12/9/2011-15/9/2011 **  ** Monday: We analysed how tension is built at the begining of 'War of the worlds' and exploring the connotations and effectiveness of prolgues. ** ** Tuesday: We looked at the film 'Invasion of the body snatchers' and analysed wheather the prologue and epilogue are as effective or not as a cliff hanger ending. ** ||
 * **Johnson, Harriet**
 * ** Jones, Caroline ** ||
 * ** Kendrick, Melissa **
 * ** Kitching, William **
 * 06/07/11-this week we have watched independance day and have tried to see how this film targets its audience and how it keeps the audiences attention. Also how sci-fi reflects in real life.**
 * 08/09/11-we've looked at two films, gattaca and blade runner and analysed the central protagonists Jerome and Rick Deckard looking at their dress codes, there personality and how they interact with other people. We then wrote an analytical paragraph about the similarities.**
 * 15/09/11- this week we have watched war of the worlds and the invasion of the body snatchers and have analysed how the directors build up tension in the films all to put in our essay.** ||
 * ** Lamb, Charlotte **
 * we watched the beginning of Gattaca and part of Blade Runner to analyse the central protagonists Jerome and Rick Deckard. we looked at how Rick Deckard was similar to Ray Ferrier in wow. They both had a similar dress code and houses which reflected that they had similar personalities. We then wrote a paragraph about this.I had trouble explaining the similarities and seeing Ricks house cos' it was dark. :) ** ||
 * ** Lewis, Martyn **
 * ** Lloyd, Alex **
 * ** McElvaney, Joe **
 * **Putz, Ruane' We watched Independence day in class and analysed it, we did Todorons Theory about** **Equilibrium and Allergory and made notes about What the meaning of Independence day is, and how the audience's attention is kept during the film.**
 * 19/07/11**
 * We watched the film " the invasion of the body snatchers" (by Don Siegal, 1986). We looked at what we learn about he main character (Dr Miles Benel) and why do the 1950s sci-fi feature this type of hero and how does the plot develop to keep the audiences attention.**
 * 08/09/11 We watched a part of the film Gattaca and made notes on it and the character Jerome, we also watched a part of Blade runnner, where we also made notes on the film and the character Rick Deckard. We then compared flims with each other to show the typical things in them that you wouls normally find in them**
 * 15/09/11 we looked how in the movie Invasion of the body snatchers builds up tension and how the narration builds up tension and if the effects of the narration would be better to build up tension.** ||
 * ** Reilly, Katrina **
 * 9th july 2011**
 * in class we have been watching ' independence day ' and analysing it. have done allegory and how sci-fi reflects real life. and last lesson we did Todorons Theory with the equilibrium, discription, quest and the return to equilibrium of independece day. : ]** ||