Task - Madeira - Video workshop

Video & Multimodality Literacy- Task

Nik Peachey - Pedagogical Director - PeacheyPublications

Finding Clips

Lesson structure

Pre-viewing

• Students need tasks that focus their attention

Access and/or build on students' existing knowledge.

While viewing

Engage students with content and develop their understanding.

Post viewing

Analyse, reflect on and respond to content.

Pre-viewing Tasks

Access and/or build on students' existing knowledge.

Pre-viewing

• Order images or segements from the video.

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Pre-viewing

• Predict content based on questions.

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Pre-viewing

• Predict character or relationships from images.

While viewing

Engage students with thecontent and develop their understanding.

While viewing

Read body language - thoughts and feelings

• What are they thinking?
• What are they feeling?
• How do you know?

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While viewing

Find the conflict Narrative is usually based on some form of conflict.

• Character vs Character
• Character vs Nature
• Character vs Society
• Character vs Self

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While viewing

5 Part Plot Structure

• Understanding plot structure
• Many narratives follow a 5 part plot structure
• Provides a model for student productions

Resolution

Rising Action

Step 1

Step 4

Step 2

Step 3

Step 5

Dénouement

Climax

Exposition

While viewing

Map your emotional response as you watch video.

Love

• Mapping emotions

Like

Dislike

Hate

While viewing

Look for parallels with your own world or life

• How are you similar?
• How is your life similar?

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Post viewing

Analyse, reflect on and respond to content.

Post viewing

Analysing characters

• Use Jung's 12 character archetypes

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Post viewing

Write the backstory

• Get students to create the story that happened leading up to the video they watched

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Post viewing

The childhood of characters

• Get students to think about the life of one of the characters as a child and how it influenced their behaviour.

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Post viewing

Interview people from the video

• Get students to create questions they would like to ask the characters.
• Get them to work in pairs and use the questions as a role-play.

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Post viewing

Flash Forward

• Get students to think about the lives of the character(s) in 5, 10 or 15 years time.
• What will they be doing?
• What will their life be like?

• Flash forward

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Post viewing

What’s their motivation?

• Get students to think about what motivated each of the people and why they take various actions.
• What do they want?
• What are they trying to achieve?

Focus on understanding rather than judging.

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Reflection

• What aspects of multimodal literacy were featured in your lesson?

Story questions

1. How long had Simon the robot been looking after the old woman?
2. Why did she get angry with Simon?
3. How did she find out about the new robot?
4. What did the new robot give to the woman to make her healthy?
5. What did the new robot do with Simon?
6. Where did Simon go?
7. Why did the old woman scream for help?
8. How did Simon rescue the woman?
9. What happened to the new robot?
10. How did the woman’s relationship with Simon change?