Meghan, Steve, Lisa

Video

March 2013

Title: Fleur
Author: Meghan, Steve, Lisa Overarching Purpose or To encourage students to find the meaning of Outcome: symbolism, identify foreshadowing, and identify effective elements of a story in the context of a highschool English class. Attributes of the Portrayal Setting at school Knowledge Structures Activated Familiar setting that is relatable for the audience. Principles of Design and Layout Gives perspective and allows for different common scenes (art class, science, etc). Focus, Dominance, perspective, and abstraction. Clip starts with close up on the flower to hint at its symbolism and then ends with a close up on flowers to make the symbol more concrete. Note: Because the video is about symbolism, abstraction is a main component of many of the design choices. The abstraction levels vary in order to introduce students to both obvious and subtle symbols. Contrast is seen between fresh, pale, white flower and the dark, rotten, brown flower.

Rose at beginning and end

Symbol of relationship trajectory. Flowers bloom to suggest that the young love is blooming too. Wilted flowers suggest the end or death of the relationship.

Meghan, Steve, Lisa

Video

March 2013

Pencil and paper; pencil Symbol of communication. Abstraction is of the broken at the beginning and Pencils are used to write and medium level as the event is then again breaks during the therefore communicate repeated to suggest message writing process. messages. foreshadowing. Finally, Martha falls for a man who breaks the pencil Repeated foreshadowing: originally from George. pencil broken at the beginning and during message writing process suggests that the relationship is already broken and will not work out. The other man breaking the pencil finalizes that communication between Martha and George has ended. Silent film Draws attention to visual Establishes a focus on visual aspects of the video ie representations facial expressions and shots of objects for symbolism. The video is a classic, clichd love story; it follows an love archetype story line. The old fashioned effects reflect that this kind of story has been around for a long time. Colour and high abstraction (could perhaps ask students to brainstorm why the video is in black and white) and stylistic unity in order to keep with old conventions of silent films.

Black and White video

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Reflects context of situation Low abstraction to give the and also indicates passage viewer obvious context. of time. Also, helps with transitions of the video because it introduces different activities and guides the viewer through the beginning, middle and end, contributing to good pacing of the video Reflects the status of Georges affections for Martha. Low abstraction.

Shirt with growing heart on it; at end the heart has a black jagged line through it