Friday 11 September 2009
Using slideshare
Slideshare.net provide a free service where they turn all sorts of document types into a flash-based slideshow which can be embedded into your blog. Unfortunately in school you can't see the slideshows, although you can create them, edit them and embed them in to your blog; it will appear as a white box in school, so at least the space will be correctly filled!
Not only can you add .ppt powerpoint slideshows, but you can add .doc word documents! this means that instead of having ugly long passages of essay in your blogs, you can put your essays into a slideshow which takes up less space, looking more professional at the same time!
Sidebar features
Hi kids!
one of the really cool features of blogger is the sidebar, which you can see to the left of these blog posts, starting at the top I have set up a brief personal description; please remember not to provide too much personal information here as it's live on the web. I've also put up a picture; again I wouldn't put a personal photo up, I've got my wiimii, but you could create a production company logo for your group and slap that up there instead. The same goes for the header (where it says darlow.org) which I've put my logo on, you could do this, or just use text, or create a logo with photoshop.
Next up, I've got a poll, which is very easy to make, and will give you an excellent source of feedback from people who read your blog. I recommend that you invite people to read your essays or look over your premise and storyboards and give you feedback. It all helps and will show interaction and audience research.
Below that, and unfortunately invisible in school (except by rolling the mouse over it) is a slideshow of flickr images, i've just set it to randomly show pictures with the tag 'film', but if you have or set up a flickr account, you can upload production images (from home only soz!) and let people browse them, but don't let that stop you uploading them to your main blog posts too!
Lastly, I've got my blog archive, this is useful as it lists your blog posts by date and title; making navigating to a particular blog post much easier than scrolling through and manually searching!
I hope this all makes sense and they're useful ideas... there are lots more options for your sidebar and I can explain how to use them in your lesson!
~joe
one of the really cool features of blogger is the sidebar, which you can see to the left of these blog posts, starting at the top I have set up a brief personal description; please remember not to provide too much personal information here as it's live on the web. I've also put up a picture; again I wouldn't put a personal photo up, I've got my wiimii, but you could create a production company logo for your group and slap that up there instead. The same goes for the header (where it says darlow.org) which I've put my logo on, you could do this, or just use text, or create a logo with photoshop.
Next up, I've got a poll, which is very easy to make, and will give you an excellent source of feedback from people who read your blog. I recommend that you invite people to read your essays or look over your premise and storyboards and give you feedback. It all helps and will show interaction and audience research.
Below that, and unfortunately invisible in school (except by rolling the mouse over it) is a slideshow of flickr images, i've just set it to randomly show pictures with the tag 'film', but if you have or set up a flickr account, you can upload production images (from home only soz!) and let people browse them, but don't let that stop you uploading them to your main blog posts too!
Lastly, I've got my blog archive, this is useful as it lists your blog posts by date and title; making navigating to a particular blog post much easier than scrolling through and manually searching!
I hope this all makes sense and they're useful ideas... there are lots more options for your sidebar and I can explain how to use them in your lesson!
~joe
Thursday 10 September 2009
The Mise-en-Scene of Reservoir Dogs OTS
There's no doubting that Tarantino is a master of mise-en-scene. The detail and the quality and meaning behind that detail in all of his films is astounding. There is no better example than the opening title sequence of Reservoir Dogs. I chose to parody the second section of the OTS in a short spoof Parkour video I made to celebrate the end of school for year eleven leavers in 2008. This film stars the year eleven tutors showing off their questionable parkour skills
Marcellus Wallace's Briefcase
Theories abound concerning the contents of the briefcase snopes.com give a few hints and quash a few rumours, but be careful where you get yours information. Is the internet a viable source? Perhaps backing up this initial research by checking the source; in this case getting your hands on Tarantino A to Zed, by Alan Barnes and Marcus Hearn.
Your should also remember to reference sources properly. I will discuss other sources later but for books references should follow this format: Printed books should be referenced using the following format and punctuation.
Author/editor's surname and initials.,
(Year of publication).
Title of book: including subtitles. (in italics or underlined)
Edition. (if applicable)
Place of publication: (followed by a colon)
Name of publisher.
eg. Barnes A. and Hearn M. (1999). Tarantino A to Zed:The Films of Quentin Tarantino. 2nd Edition. London: Batsford Ltd.
Your should also remember to reference sources properly. I will discuss other sources later but for books references should follow this format: Printed books should be referenced using the following format and punctuation.
Author/editor's surname and initials.,
(Year of publication).
Title of book: including subtitles. (in italics or underlined)
Edition. (if applicable)
Place of publication: (followed by a colon)
Name of publisher.
eg. Barnes A. and Hearn M. (1999). Tarantino A to Zed:The Films of Quentin Tarantino. 2nd Edition. London: Batsford Ltd.
Welcome
Welcome to Mr Darlow's test blog for Sprowston High School.
I will attempt to add various media to show how this page could look when you set up your own blog.
Hopefully there will be some pictures and videos to follow.
~j
I will attempt to add various media to show how this page could look when you set up your own blog.
Hopefully there will be some pictures and videos to follow.
~j
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