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today we finished watching independence day- I enjoyed the film and now have lots of notes to help me in the future 15th November 2011 Today I improved my draft and started typing it up at home. I feel like I am having no problems referring back to the question which was my feedback from the last essay ||  || ** Morgan, Bethany ** **Today we finished off watching independance day and continued making notes, i really enjoyed watching the film.** || ** we have been watching sci-fi films and wqriting about the characters, setting and narrative. We have been learning about parallel narratives and are looking at Independance day. ** ** We watched War of the Worlds (2005) and made notes ready for our essay. ** || ||
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 * ===== ** Hendry, Elizabeth  Today we watched some more of the film independance day and made notes on its narrative, setting, Audience Appeal and parallel narrative - in fridays lesson we learned that a parallel narrative is when a film has lots of differnent plots at once. I understood this. ** ===== ||
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 * __11th, 15th & 18th July 2011__ **
 * For the past 3 lessons, we have been watching the film "Independence Day"(1996, Roland Emmerich) and making notes on how this film is stereotypical of the Science Fiction genre and specifically, how it conforms to the conventions of a modern blockbuster. Some of these features that we were looking out for were narrative (parallel and general), audience appeal, setting and characters. For example; during the film there were about 3 or 4 different storylines following different people and showing how each coped with the challenges that were thrown at them and slowly how these all started to intertwine and thread into one towards the end. I understood this lesson and am eager to see the end of the film. **
 * __5th September 2011__ **
 * Today was the first day back after the summer holidays and we used this lesson to compare and share notes on our summer homework. This helped me alot to get a better understanding of the films and expand my notes and link them together. We looked specifically for each film at typicalities to genre, character and whether or not we could place the film into a more accurate sub-genre(dystopian futures etc.). I understood and enjoyed this lesson. **
 * __7th September 2011__ **
 * Today, started watching War of the Worlds and focused on the first 10 minutes of the film to make notes on how it is a blockbuster film, how it uses star appeal and notes on the charachter Ray Ferrier. I made valuable notes from this and can use them in my essay that is coming up. I understood this lesson. **
 * __9th September 2011__ **
 * Today we continued to watch more of War of the Worlds and took notes on the same points as before, but on a wider focus as we watched around 40 mins of the film. I understood and took useful information from this lesson. Our homework was to write a paragraph of 150 words on how it is a stereotypical sci-fi film and how it is a blockbuster and how it is promoted. I struggled to get all of my points into this in only 150 words but I think with practise, this will become easier. **
 * __12th September 2011__ **
 * Today, we watched up to 53 minutes of the film from where we left off and had to make notes on the same as before, but now also on how Ray Ferrier's character developes into a better father figure and becomes more compassionate and responsible of his children. Taking this into account,(which I understood)we were set a homework to write a paragraph on how Ray's character is and has developed. **