March 30

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Watch videos

March 23

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Criterion C

Supporting Criterion C - Critical Thinking Skills

1.  Mr. Zamith - mindmapping your thinking

2.  What could go wrong?
How can I anticipate problems, and avoid possible problems by being prepared?
Write one page on how to troubleshoot problems.

3. What went wrong?  
As we know, we can't control every situation and no matter how hard we try, sometimes things go wrong.  What went wrong in your project?
Write one page on what went wrong and how you dealt with the situation. 

March 16

Task 4 - Commentary  You will write (approximately 4) well developed paragraphs that include:

• Use acquired knowledge to purposefully inform his or her artistic decisions. (Aiii) Write a paragraph saying how your research helped you make decisions about your script and performance.  Use the term "acquired knowledge" (for example: After completing my research, my acquired knowledge enabled me to . . .  or   The knowledge that I acquired through my research enabled me to . . . or From this unit I have a deeper understanding of comedy. . .)

•  Construct meaningful connections between the process and product, the statement of inquiry and the global context. (Di) Write a paragraph that makes a connects your product (your video and your performance) to the statement of inquiry (Artists raise awareness of the implications of change and innovation through their work) and the global context (scientific and technical innovation: adaptation, ingenuity and progress).  (for example: Throughout this process I have gained an understanding of . . .)
   
  

• Demonstrate his or her ability to either reflect on the world or impact the world through their realized artwork. (Dii) You can talk about how your message either reflects on the world or impacts the world and your audience.  Include an image from each of your performances (joke, practice and final performance - like in the 2 examples in the folder on OneDrive) For example:  Throughout this process I have learned  that art can be created for a purpose and comedy can send a message . . .)

• Critically analyse his or her own artwork. (Diii)  Critically analyse your own performance.  Look at your acting, voice control, timing of your jokes, facial expressions. Suggest ways to improve.

 Look at the 2 examples in the folder on OneDrive for inspiration and ideas.

March 16, 17 (no lessons on March 17 - Happy St. Patrick's Day)

1.  Why is this funny?

2.  Task 3

3.  Task 4 - Let's look at the resources that are available.

March 10, 11

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Work on your ePortfolio project.  I shared a folder with you on One Drive.

Inside the folder you will find:
    Assessment Rubrics
    Rubrics
    Tasks

Today we agreed on the following deadlines:

Task 1 and Task 2   - Tuesday, March 14 on Managebac and submit a paper version
Task 3                     - Thursday, March 16

Websites to help

 Websites to help

Film techniques - How to analyze a cinematic text:
https://www.matrix.edu.au/film-techniques-how-to-analyse-a-cinematic-text/

Teaching Film making:
http://mediaed.org.uk/using_film_in_schools/teaching-filmmaking 

Elements of Cinematography
https://www.utdallas.edu/atec/midori/Handouts/camera.htm

What is comedy and what makes something funny?

Check out this site:  http://www.thinctanc.co.uk/words/comedy.html 

Use vocabulary from this site in your work.

What is funny?
Comedy is not a science, it's art. Therefore there are no rules and it can be very subjective. What one person finds funny another might cringe at. 

One thing worth noting is that when analysing comedy and what is funny, it is almost like it is only visible out of the corner of your eye. As soon as you try and look directly at it and analyse it too much... all of the funniness disappears... 

Why do we find things funny? Why does this reaction force us to convulse and make that noise? 

I have no idea. 

There is no simple answer to why something is funny... Something is funny because it captures a moment, it contains an element of simple truth, it is something that we have always known for eternity and yet are hearing it now out loud for the first time. 

I think that our need to feel intelligent comes into play a lot in finding things funny... maybe humour is actually the overwhelming joy at feeling intelligent. Somebody tries to put on their shoes standing up and falls over in the process. They look foolish, we therefore feel intelligent as we are not the one falling over trying to put on shoes. 

We laugh. 

Someone makes a clever joke and only a few people get it. If we get the joke we recognise the person as being clever and feel clever ourselves as we understood the concept. 

We laugh. 

So is humour partly to do with self congratualtion at being intelligent? 

Comedy is full of opposites and contradictions. 

Something is funny because...

1. ...It is expected
A woman buys white coat she has been saving up for for ages. She tells the shop keeper she has dreamed of wearing it for months and been saving up. The shop keeper says that this is the last one in stock. We see the woman's gleeful face as she tries on her new lovely white coat.

We cut to a scene of a park keeper painting a bench black... oh and let's really overstate it... he's painting the bench black by the zebra enclosure in a zoo. We know what's going to happen already. The comedy is in the anticipation and expectation as we build up to the inevitable moment where she sits on the wet black bench in her new white coat and ends up with black stripes across her back.

2. ...it is unexpected
A hunter is out hunting rabbits. He finds a rabbit hole and sends his dog down. After five minutes of nothing he sticks his head down the hole to find the rabbit and dog playing cards.

Or let's go for a twist... That same woman buys her white coat and approaches the wet black bench.

"Look out!" yells the zoo keeper.
" Oh thanks," says the woman, "I almost sat on that."
An escaped lion leaps in from the side and mauls her.

3. ...it is familiar
A woman places a tin in her trolley and turns to fetch another. While she is not looking, her trolley rolls away sideways. We laugh a knowing laugh as we recognise the age old problem of shopping trolleys rolling sideways.

4. ...it is unfamiliar
A woman places a tin in her trolley and turns to fetch another. While she is not looking, her trolley floats up into the air out of sight. We laugh a shocked laugh as we didn't expect that.