Teachingmedialiteracy.com Richard Beach

Film Techniques

Lighting

Lighting is what tells the story. Depending on the audience and what the writer is trying to pursue, lighting can move an audience in different directions in order to develop a certain perception. I used to wonder why my T.V. had options to change the lighting in regards to what I was watching. The lighting was divided into four sections (I think) on my T.V.; Movies, Sports, Shows, and I can't think of the other one??? Anyway, the link titled Lighting, located on the teachingliteracy.com website, helped me realize that the sections where there to make audiences focus on certain aspects thanks to the lighting.


Fostering Classroom Discussions

Sstudents benefit from making reflections and applications to literature. People watch television programs and are involved with media everyday. The next step is to make connections, applications, and reflections with daily media usage. It mentioned in the section labeled Fostering Classroom Discussions, that it's a beneficial strategy for students to compare ideas and themes with literature. This needs to be done with media. This engages students to dig deep into what each piece of media is trying to convey. Students will be asked to research different time periods, and find facts that support opinions on what these pieces of media depict.

Pop Matters

The website, pop matters is one of the biggest pop critiques today, how come I haven't heard of it? It shows some of the good, and some of the bad. It has over thirteen different sub-sections on it's website which touches on the aspects that pop culture really deals with: DVDS, Music, Sports, and etc. The audience for this site is world wide. There's a blog section on the page for viewers to conduct their own ideas about some of the events in pop culture. The thing I like about this site is that it takes things a person isn't aware and makes it interesting. I clicked on the comic section, which is something I know nothing about. I learned about this comic called Kick Drum Comix, where they have this villain rapper. This a new age comic series. Kim Ellis gave it a 7 out of 10.