The use of high-angle, low-angle and eye-level in film

Matrix groups about cinematic technique

Round 1: Researching terms

• All groups are responsible for one of the terms on the film analysis sheet.
• You must be able to explain what the terms mean.
• You must find examples of each of the terms
• Either make them yourselves (drawing for instance)
• Or find pictures / clips online (search on terms on youtube for instance)

Remember that this is matrix groups so all of you must be able to explain it on your own and have the examples ready to show the others.

Group 1: Framing
Group 2: Angles
Group 3: Lines
Group 4: Composition
Group 5: Sound
Group 6: Lighting and colour

Time frame: 15 minutes

 

Round 2: Presenting terms

In the new groups you must now present your findings to the people who worked with something else.

Remember to have your examples ready so it can run smoothly :)

Coward: Characterising through cinematic technique 2

Watch the following two scenes one at a time and characterise Andrew and/or James based on them.
Discuss what cinematic techniques are used to characterise them. You can find the film here.

Comment on the use of framing, angles, lines, composition, sound and lighting when relevant.

Clip 1

5:21 - 6:51

Clip 2

15:58 - 17:10

Coward: Characterising through cinematic technique 1

Task

Characterise Andrew and James and their relationship to others and the war based on these four freeze-frames from the short film.

When you analyse the pictures you must use relevant vocabulary to describe what you see and the effect it has. Comment on framing, angles, lines, composition and lighting when it is relevant.






Freeze-frame 1 (1:23)

Freeze-frame 2 (2:42)

Freeze-frame 3 (3:19)

 

Freeze-frame 4 (20:11)

Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen was born on 18th march 1893 and died 4th November 1918. He was a British poet, and was in the British army as well. In the summer of 1917, Wilfred went to a hospital in Edinburg for treatment for a shell shock, where he met Siegfried Sassoon, who also was a poet and an officer. This meeting with Siegfried changed Wilfred’s poesy to realism about the war. 
Wilfred Owen was born in Weston Lane in Shropshire. He is half English and half welsh. He was the eldest of 4 children. 
In 1898, Wilfred’s father, Thomas, got a job as stationmaster in Birkenhead at Woodside station, where they had no less than three homes. Wilfred was educated from Birkenhead Institute and later Shrewsbury Technical School. Wilfred was raised as an Anglican, and was in his youth a very strong believer. He had throughout his whole life, a strong relationship to his mother. 
In 1911 he passed his exam at the University of London, but not with the first-class honours, which was needed to get a scholarship, which was the only way his family could afford him to study there. 
In 1913, Wilfred went to Bordeaux, France to teach in English and French.
Wilfred was killed at the age of only 25, in the first world war, in the Sambre-Oise Canal in France, only one week before the end of the war. 



Mette Haarup

Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon is born 8 September 1886 and died the 1 September 1967 in a ages of 80 by stomach cancer. Siegfried Sassoon was an English poet, novelist, biographer and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front. He became one of the leading poets of the First World War.

He was born and raised in Matfield in England. His father Alfred Ezra Sassoon was Jewish and his mother Theresa Sassoon was an Anglo-Catholic. Sassoon was the second son of three sons, the others was called Michael and Hamo.

During Sassoons youth his biggest interest was fox-hunting, because he did not finish his studies and in this period he wrote some poetry, but did not get much intention. In 1914 he got into the army after the outbreak to World War 1. But a broken arm prevented him to get in battle. He came first in active battle in 1915. 1 November same year his younger brother Hamo was killed.

Sassoon was homosexual but got married to Hester Gatty and got his only son George. The marriage ended after the Word War 2.

And apparently he got a “relationship to the author and soldier Wilfred Owen, that we had read the famous poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”. Siegfried Sassoon met Wilfred Owen at the military school, and in 1917 they were both in a hospital in Edinburgh for shell chock.

The genre he wrote was Poetry, Fiction, Biography. 

Written by Nanna Gjesing

Siegfried Sassoon, "Base Details"

Consider the fact that the title of this poem might have a double meaning! What could it be?

Listen to the poem here.

Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est

Read by Christopher Eccleston.

 

 

 



Rupert Brooke: The Soldier

INTRO: What is war good for?

Summary of non-fiction text about Britain

Hello everyone,
Individually or in pairs, you have to write a summary of the non-fiction text you worked with on 22 October 2013. If you weren't present that day just pick one of the texts (they are attached on Ludus for today's lessons).

Remember all the things that a summary of a non-fiction text must include and must not include and write approximately 150 words.

When you have written the summary put it in a comment on this blog post.

Speaking English, 22 October 2013

... So everyone - today we are going to work with pronunciation and in general being better at speaking English in the English lessons -> practice for the oral exam.

John Agard

Kirstine: John Agard.

His name is John Agard. He was born 21 June 1949 in British Guyana. He is Married with Grace Nichols, and they moved to UK in 1977, where they still live. When he was  little boy, he loved to listen cricket commentary on the radio, and then he started to make his own, which make him to love the language. And it is the reason to, why he started to love to write poems and stuff like that. He had studied English, French, and Latin on A-level. He began to write, his first poems in 6 (class/grate). But it was first when he was 16, some of his poems was published, and it was in the school magazines. In 1967 he left the school, and started to Work on the local library - on the same time he was also, sub-editor and feature writer for the Guyana Sunday Chronicle. He had worked for the commonwalth institute and BBC in London. He had written a lot of books, and here is some examples: Shoot me with flowers, Go Noah Go!, Travl Light Travel Dark. He had also won some different Awards, and here is some examples: Casa de las Americas prize(Cuba) for Man to Pan, Paul Hamlyn Award for poetry, and Queens Gold Medal for Poetry. He had, of course, also written the text "Mr and Mrs Xenophobia, we have read and worked with.

John Agard "Alternative Anthem"

Enoch Powell

John Enoch Powell was born 16 June 1912 and died 8 February 1998. He was born in Birmingham where he lived the first six years of his life before moved to King’s Norton in 1918, where he lived until 1930. He was the only child of Albert Enoch Powell and his wife Ellen Mary. His father was a schoolteacher and so was his mother. But she stops teaching, to learn Greek and take care of John Enoch Powell.

He was a British conservative politician. Before he went into the policy, he has an academy career as professor of Greek. In 1950 he came into The House of Commons, because the people elected him. In 1960 to 1963 he was the health secretary of England. 

- Kimmie Christensen

Anhøj: Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English Arthur and poet. He lived from 30 dec. 1865 to 18 jan. 1936. He was born in Bombay, but his family took him to England when he was 5 years old. Rudyard Kipling is known for his poems about British soldiers and histales for children. Best known is the jungle book. He is one of the most popular writers in England in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1907 Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive Nobel Prize in Literature, and today he is still the youngest to receive that prize. He is also known for his defending British imperialism. The text we had read in class is “The white man’s burden”. He also has a city in Canada, which has his name. It’s called, “Town of Kipling”. He got a D Litt. on the Durham and Oxford Universities in 1907, on the Cambridge University in 1908, on Edinburgh University in 1920 and on Paris and Strasbourg University in 1921. In 1924 he also got an honor PhD on the Athen University.

History of the British Empire

Geography of the British Isles

Sasja - James Mercer Langston Hughes

(Jeg lægger det ind for Sasja, da hun ikke kan logge på bloggen)

James Mercer Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, play writer, and columnist. He was born the 1st of February 1902 in Joplin, Missouri and grew up in Lawrence, Kansas. After Langston’s parents were divorced, he was mainly raised by his grandmother. During high school he wrote for the school newspaper, edited the yearbook and he also began to write his first short stories, dramatic plays and poetry. As a young man he travelled a lot, Mexico, France and western Africa. In the end he decided to settle in, in Harlem, New York. Langston died the 22nd of May 1967, 65 years old. It is now known that he was homosexual.

Relationship with his father

Hughes had a very poor relationship with his father. They lived together in Mexico for a brief period in 1919. After graduating from high school in June 1920, Hughes returned to Mexico to live together with his father, hoping to convince him to support Langston’s plan to attend Columbia University. His father hoped for Langston to attend a university abroad, to study engineering. His father did not support his writing, but the two of them came to an agreement: Hughes would study engineering, as long as he could attend Columbia. He left his father after more than a year.

Art Langston’s first book was published in 1926. All in all he wrote 16 collections of poems, 2 novels, 3 collections of short stories, 4 collections of fictions, 20 plays, and poetry for children, musicals and operas, 3 biography and several articles. Also he edited 7 anthologies.

Poetry collections: “The Weary Blues” (1926)

Novels: “Not Without Laughter” (1930)

Short stories: “The ways of White Folks” (1934)

Plays: “Mule bone” (1934) “Black Nativity” (1961)

Ideas for persuasive speech

You have to write a speech wherein you try to persuade your fellow students to go on strike. Write your suggestions for what you can write about in a comment on this blog post.

Author presentations

This year you will all be doing author presentations both in class and on the blog.
Write between 150-200 words in your presentation of the author.

Your blog post on the author in question has to include:

• A short biography on the author.
• A picture of the author.
• The names of texts written by the author, which we have read in class at one point or another.
• A list of the sources on the internet (or books) where you found information about the author.
• Give the blog post the label "Authors".

Conspicuos Consumption: Illustration 4

1. Describe in detail what is in the picture (is it a picture or a cartoon, people in the picture, colours, writing etc.).
2. Write a thorough explanation of how this picture is connected to the term “conspicuous consumption” as well as the American Dream.

Write your answer as a comment on this blog post. Remember to write the names of your group members in your answer.

 

Conspicuous Consumption: Illustration 3

1. Describe in detail what is in the picture (is it a picture or a cartoon, people in the picture, colours, writing etc.).
2. Write a thorough explanation of how this picture is connected to the term “conspicuous consumption” as well as the American Dream.

Write your answer as a comment on this blog post. Remember to write the names of your group members in your answer.

 

Conspicuous consumption: Illustration 2

1. Describe in detail what is in the picture (is it a picture or a cartoon, people in the picture, colours, writing etc.).
2. Write a thorough explanation of how this picture is connected to the term “conspicuous consumption” as well as the American Dream.

 

Write your answer as a comment on this blog post. Remember to write the names of your group members in your answer.

Conspicuous Consumption: Illustration 1



1. Describe in detail what is in the picture (is it a picture or a cartoon, people in the picture, colours, writing etc.).
2. Write a thorough explanation of how this picture is connected to the term “conspicuous consumption” as well as the American Dream.

Write your answer as a comment on this blog post. Remember to write the names of your group members in your answer.

 

 

Biord og tillægsord

Her er en lille video fra studieportalen, som handler om Biord og tillægsord på engelsk. I kan læse om emnet fra side 50 i Fejlstøvsugeren.

Park Avenue: Jeanette, nanna, kimmie, natascha

1.    What does the documentary say about the possibilities of social climbing in the US today?
If you have money you can climbing to the top, in the social society.

2.    How does professor Paul Piff explain his comparison of American society to a fixed game of Monopoly?
Paul Piff explain that the American society is like monopoly, because if you have money from beginning your come faster to the success and there is no limitations.
In proportion to don’t any money it goes slow to the success if you ever goanna be there  
 

3.    Compare the points in the documentary to Our America and Adam.
in our America to worlds like in this documentary there are avenue the poor and the rich, and in Adam he has the American dream  to success and want more like the rich in the documentary.

Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream - Christian Møller, Camilla, Malene og Andrea

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.    <!--[endif]-->What does the documentary say about the possibilities of social climbing in the US today?

That poor people have minimal chance to change their social status because the rich are in in the pockets of the politicians. Because of that they can change the laws so they benefit the rich people.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->2.    <!--[endif]-->How does professor Paul Piff explain his comparison of American society to a fixed game of Monopoly?

That some people are born with a head start, and those who get more wants more and it keeps going in that way. The more money the rich get the more selfish and greedy they become. And then they neglect the poor people.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->3.    <!--[endif]-->Compare the points in the documentary to Our America and Adam.

Adam is like these rich people in the documentary because he believes that money makes you happy and that it is the only thing that matters in life. He believes that you can buy happiness. He says that criminals can get two chances and after that they have to be blown away. (He does not really care about the poor and those who don’t have the possibility to have a better life)

LeAlans wish of a better America in “Our America” will most likely never happen according to this documentary; because of the rich people have the politicians among their little fingers.

Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream Kirstine, Lioba og Kathrine R

Kirstine, Lioba og Kathrine R

1. What does the documentary say about the possibilities of social climbing in the US today?
If you want to get a higher status, then you are need to go on college.

2. How does professor Paul Piff explain his comparison of American society to a fixed game of Monopoly?
The rich people vs poor people.  When they play, their rich people begin to taunt and they feel they are much better than the poor people. So the game shows how the rael life is between the rich and poor.

3. Compare the points in the documentary to Our America and Adam.
Adam also think that the American dream is about money.

Group 4 - Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream

            What does the documentary say about the possibilities of social climbing in the US today?

The rich people could stay rich, or even get wealthier, but the poor people would just keep getting more poor. It has become harder to break out from their social heritage, and that "cliff" between rich and poor has just become bigger. 

How does professor Paul Piff explain his comparison of American society to a fixed game of Monopoly?

In monopoly, there is one winner and many losers. Monopoly is about earning money, and becoming 

succesful, just like it is in real life. If you don't have money, you will loose. The difference between real 

life and Monopoly is that everybody in the game starts with equal amount of money - and real life is not 

like that. 

            Compare the points in the documentary to Our America and Adam.

            In Adam he describes the American Dream as being wealthy and succesful and that is the same way                 
            the republicans sees it. In our America the little boy comes from a ghetto and is poor, so he wants to 
            have liberty and freedom more than material wealth. In the two stories we see both sides of the Park               ,           Avenue bridge.  


Made by Josefine, Christian A, Patrick and Kristina.

Park Avenue

Group 2: Sasja, Brian, Mette & Martina

1.      What does the documentary say about the possibilities of social climbing in the US today?

The opportunities to climb in the social groups are not as good as they have been in the past, because the rich people are controlling the society with their money.

2.      How does professor Paul Piff explain his comparison of American society to a fixed game of Monopoly?

What he is trying to explain is that there is always a loser in the game, in this case the loser is the poor people and the greedy winner is the rich people.
but there is a way to prevent that the poor people always would lose and it would be to give them a head start and not only give them half of what they deserve and not only let them play with one dice but two like the rich people

3.  Compare the points in the documentary to Our America and Adam.

Adam could easily end up as one of the rich people in this documentary, because he wants to get richer and have success, and he really don’t care about the poor people, only that they should not cost the society(himself) a lot of money. The poor people or the lower class in the US could be the African American people in “Our America” they are fighting to get enough money to keep their house, car and so on, even to have a job.

Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream

You are going to watch the documentary Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream.

When it is over answer the following questions here on the blog in groups. Write your answers in a blog post with the label "Park Avenue" and put it on the blog by 11.40.

Questions

1. What does the documentary say about the possibilities of social climbing in the US today?
2. How does professor Paul Piff explain his comparison of American society to a fixed game of Monopoly?
3. Compare the points in the documentary to Our America and Adam.

Groups

1. Christian M., Malene, Andrea, Camilla
2. Sasja, Brian, Martina, Mette
3. Jeanette, Nanna, Kimmie, Natascha
4. Thomas, Kristina, Josefine, Patrick, Christian A.
5. Kathrine, Matilde, Lioba, Mads, Kirstine

POEMS: "I Hear America Singing" and "I, Too"

Walt Whitman "I Hear America Singing"

 

 

 

Langston Hughes "I, Too"

Arnold Schwarzenegger's speech at the 2004 RNC

To listen to the speech click here.

What appeal form does this picture make you think of? Logos, ethos or pathos?

Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream"

Lyt til talen - se om I kan få øje på logos, ethos og pathos, når han taler (hint - bemærk publikums reaktioner på det, han siger).

1, Fejlsætning

Ret fejlene i de følgende sætninger. Vær opmærksom på, at der kan være mere end én fejl i den enkelte sætning. Skriv den korrekte sætning på linjen nedenunder.

Her er sætningerne i rettet form.
De, med understreg, er steder hvor sætningen er rettet.

1. They were terribly sad at his death.
2. She always offended people's feelings. 
3. All the new funiture which he had bought was painted white
4. In real life he was not an actor, but a doctor
5. We all felt that the man's clothes and shoes were strange.
6. It's a new way of thinking- whose idea was it?
7. My sister likes sport, especially handball.
8. I don't like it myself.
9. The situation developed drastically and soon got worse than expected.
10. The funiture is much to expensive for us.

Opgave 3

Indsæt det korrekte ord

1. At Halloween she wanted to wear a costume which would scare everybody.
2. I don´t want to go there.
3. Before she left the room, she heard someone say "bye".
4. Do you know where you´re going?
5. Most teachers must try not to lose patience with their studenst.
6. The open-air concert dependes highly on the weather.
7. In 1945 World War 2 ended and peace was restored.

Opgave 5. Oversættelser

5. Oversættelser

1. He wishes that you do it as soon as possible

2. Your daughter is on the phone. She wants to speak with you.

3. In England the contrast between rich and poor is huge.

4. Most small children do not like tomatoes.

5. The little boy had stopped crying.

6. His bicycle was missing yesterday

7. There were some fantastically pretty flowers in the garden.

8. Even though they had spend a lot of money, they did not feel it was too much.

9. He says surprisingly little about the development.

10. The whole family feels that they have been very fortunate. 

Opgave 4.

 Natascha og Kimmie 

indsæt den korrekte form af verbet udsangsordet:

1.  Yesterday he wrote a letter to his son.
2.  The sun rises in the east.
3.  I have begun to hate the man.
4.  He has always hated American Pie
5.  Nowadays many people like watching football.
6.  He didn't mind cleaning the bathroom.
7.  She refuses to listen to anyone.

2. Gradbøjning af tillægsord

Indsæt den korrekte, gradbøjede form af adjektivet (tillægsordet)

1. The next day she felt much better.
2. She was the tallest girl among them.
3. The situation went from bad to worse.
4. It is the nicest dog I have ever known.
5. Today is much warmer than yesterday.
6. She had become fonder of her new boyfriend after he had given her roses.
7. She was the most beautiful of them all.  

Delprøve 1, aug. 2006

Delprøve 1 bliver rettet på følgende måde:

Hver gruppe har ansvaret for én af de fem opgaver. Man diskuterer i gruppen, hvordan de enkelte sætninger skal besvares og kommer til enighed ved at kigge i ordbogen, grammatikbogen og til sidst spørge mig.

Dernæst lægger man en besvarelse på bloggen. Husk at skrive opgaveformuleringen øverst i jeres indlæg, fx 'Indsæt den korrekte, gradbøjede form af adjektivet (tilægsordet)'. Husk også at understrege de ord, I har ændret/indsat, så det er let for andre at overskue.

Kald jeres indlæg det 'gruppenavn' I har fået nedenunder, fx '1. Fejlsætninger'. Giv jeres indlæg etiketten 'Delprøve 1 aug 2006'.

HUSK: Alle grupper skal have deres svar godkendt af mig, inden de lægger dem på bloggen.

Når alle indlæg er kommet på bloggen, gennemgår jeg et eksempel fra hver opgave på tavlen. I kan så tjekke jeres svar efter på bloggen, når timen er slut.

God fornøjelse J

1. Fejlsætninger:  Christian M., Sasja, Nanna, Brian

2. Gradbøjning af tillægsord: Kirstine, Camilla, Christian A., Jeanette, Mads

3. Indsæt korrekt ord: Kathrine, Lioba , Matilde , Mette

4. Korrekt form af udsagnsordet: Andrea, Kristina, Kimmie, Natascha

5. Oversættelser: Thomas, Malene, Martina, Josefine, Patrick

 

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address