Picasso could paint hands

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Picasso could paint hands

• Ian Wall
• Paris, July 2008

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Breaking Apart at the Seams

• 1977
• TV
• Film
• Radio
• Advertising
• Newspapers
• Magazines

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Breaking Apart at the Seams

• 2008
• TV
• Film
• Radio
• Advertising
• Newspapers
• Magazines

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• Computer games
• Internet
• Mobile phones
• DVD
• BLOG
• Website
• Interactive TV
• Digital Video

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Technology or aesthetics?
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Process or product?Or both?Critical or
creative?Or both?
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• The professional?
• The educator?
• Who needs teaching what and why?
• And why are our students producing?
• Fun or creating new audiences/producers?

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QUESTIONS TO ASK OF A TEXT

• What is the purpose of this text?
• Who is it for?
• Why does it look the way it does?
• Analyse the way it looks
• Why was it produced?

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KEY CONCEPTS
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Content

• Language
• Narrative
• Representation
• Ideology/Values
• Debates
• Practical work
• Audience

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FilmMaking
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Why?

• Students enjoy doing it!
• They can express themselves
• They can communicate.

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Why?

• To allow students to explore their own creativity
• To explore key concepts
• To understand that texts can be other - an
  extension of the avant garde
• To explore possibilities of the text

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CRITICAL AUTONOMYCREATIVITYPERFORMANCEPLEASU
RE
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CP3
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CP3

• CRITICAL PRACTICE
• CREATIVE PROCESS
• CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

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Assessment/Value
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Audience and Values

• Who for?
• Who by?
• Why?
• Why show what is shown?
• Why show it in that way?
• How to construct meanings for the who?

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METHODOLOGY

• VIEW AND UNDERSTAND
• CONSTRUCT
• PLAN
• CREATE
• CRITIQUE

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• EDUCATE
• ENGAGE
• EMPOWER