8_3_6

Activity 1 - READ and WATCH

Digital artefacts can be re-purposed. This means that their contents and "feel" can be changed to suit a different audience. For example, a poster to tell adults to be quiet in a library may be quite different from a poster for toddlers.

The trailer below gives you an example of how a digital artefact can be re-purposed:

You should be aware that the original Frozen movie is a family movie and not a horror movie. This trailer takes those family film clips, edits them and adds some suspenseful music in the background to make it appear scary.

Music, editing and suspense are often the elements of a horror movie that contribute most to how scary the movie feels. If you were walking in some woods on a nice sunny day and horror music was in the background, you may feel uneasy. If there was happy chirpy music playing then you would probably feel fine!

Activity 2

Re-purposing a video is quite a fun task to do but there are lots of copyright limitations when dealing with other people's content. Instead of doing a movie trailer, we are going to look at movie posters.

Take a look at this google image search: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=movie+posters&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiula--k9zVAhUMLMAKHQRcDScQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=974

Below is a photograph of the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie stand. Find your own poster as a starting point for inspiration.

I have decided to re-purpose the movie poster for "comic book fans" as an audience. The video below shows some simple skills in Inkscape that can be used to create a poster. With practice, you could use more skills to create a detailed poster.

Image Source for Harry Potter Drawing is Pixabay.

Activity 3

When re-purposing digital artefacts it is very important that you take into consideration copyright law. Read this section of BBC Bitesize to find out more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/z9nk87h/revision

Activity 4

BREAKING (FAKE) NEWS!!!

Just discovered! The GURTLE!!

When you view things online its often quite easy to think things are real and true. We looked at trustworthiness in outcome 8_2_4. You could re-visit this page now.

Fake news is a hot topic at the moment. This website has a great video that explains all about it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/38906931

When you want to tell someone something that you have heard think:

• Is it true?
• Is it necessary?
• Is it kind?

If you can't answer Yes to these three questions then don't pass the message on!

Create a leaflet for teenagers showing them how to spot fake news.

Create your own fake images to go inside the leaflet.

A good "hook" for this lesson is to create a fake page of your school website with a silly story on it and try to convince the students that it is real.