This schedule contains the tasks for the week of Monday, September 22nd to Thursday, September 24th. The schedule gives your group an orientation about when you should be finished with the tasks given on your task-sheet. The dates are only recommended. Feel free to re-organize your time. At the beginning of Thursday’s second lesson every group should be ready to present their podcast to the rest of the course.
Monday
Day Segment Tasks
- Read the article about Podcasting
- Search the web for an interesting English Podcast on BBC Documentary and listen to it for five minutes
- Read the Audacity Tutorial under
http://www.lehrer-online.de/dyn/bin/563870-563973-2-audacity-tutorial_sie.pdf - Watch your movie’s trailer and the recommended scenes; you may as well watch the whole movie, if you like to or if you feel as if more information is inevitable.
Wednesday
- Create the outline of your podcast
- write a script and follow the instructions given on your group’s task-sheet
- post your script on your blog.
Thursday
- Record your Podcast
- save it to an mp3 file
- upload it to www.podhost.de and link it to your blogs.
Presentation
Listen to the other group’s podcasts and leave a comment in their blogs.
<c> Photo
The films & the groups:
“V for Vendetta” >>more
Your task is to record a Podcast about the movie “V for Vendetta”, a modern dystopian action movie.
Your Podcast should concentrate on the following aspects:
- ”Why is ‘V for Vendetta’ called a dystopia?” or “What factors make ‘V for Vendetta’ a dystopia?”
- What is the role of media in V for Vendetta? Can you compare it to today’s media?
- In a dystopia the question of power is always asked. How does the ruling party in V for Vendetta maintain its power and how did they obtain it?
Please be creative about the acoustic presentation within your Podcast! Remember, that a Podcast can be anything from an interview to a radio play. Spend at least 5 minutes of time brainstorming what your Podcast should sound like.
Reading a summary of the movie will help you getting an overview.
Helpful Scenes on DVD:
- The first 20 minutes of the movie
- Scene 24: A Story
“Equilibrium” >>more
Your task is to record a Podcast about De Bont’s movie “Equilibrium”, a modern dystopian action movie.
Your Podcast should concentrate on the following aspects:
- What is the role of technology in Equilibrium and is that technology fictional or factual?
- Point out the similarities between Equilibrium and Huxley’s “Brave New World”!
- How do the people of Libria communicate? Please explain the differences in communication between those people and real people.
- Is the dystopia, which is illustrated in Equilibrium, completely unreal?
Please be creative about the acoustic presentation within your Podcast! Remember, that a Podcast can be anything from an interview to a radio play. Spend at least 5 minutes of time brainstorming what your Podcast should sound like.
Reading a summary of the movie will help you getting an overview.
Helpful Scenes on DVD:
- Chapter 3 (to 10:22): “Father’s” speech
- Chapter 4 (to 23:40): Imprisonment and the first capsule
- Chapter 6 (to 28:33): Interview with Mary
- Chapter 12
“1984″ >>more
Your task is to record a Podcast about Orwell’s 1984. Unfortunately you do not have time to read through the whole book, that’s why you have the DVD to get an idea of what the book is about.
Your Podcast should concentrate on the following aspects:
- ”Why is 1984 called a dystopia?” or “What factors make 1984 a dystopia?”
- What is the role of technology in 1984? Is the technology shown in the movie fictional or factual? Was it factual when Orwell wrote his book?
- In how far do the protagonists act differently from the people of our society? Who or what makes them act that way and for what purpose?
- Is “Oceania” completely unreal?
Please be creative about the acoustic presentation within your Podcast! Remember, that a Podcast can be anything from an interview to a radio play. Spend at least 5 minutes of time brainstorming what your Podcast should sound like.
Reading a summary of the book will help you getting an overview.
Helpful Scenes on DVD:
- Cinematic Trailer (found on DVD)
- Scene 1: Introduction
- Scene 2: Newspeak and the Diary
- Scene 3: Wakeup and Razorblades
- Scene 10: The Ministry and Goldstein’s book
“Children of Men” >>more
Your task is to record a Podcast about the movie “Children of Men”, a modern dystopian action movie.
Your Podcast should concentrate on the following aspects:
- In contrast to the other group’s movies, Children of Men concentrates on the fact, that technology has failed mankind.
- Take specific regard on who the government blames first!
- Consider in how far the society shown in Children of Men is reality-based. Do you think that this really could have happened?
- How do people in the movie get along with their situation of being the last human generation?
Please be creative about the acoustic presentation within your Podcast! Remember, that a Podcast can be anything from an interview to a radio play. Spend at least 5 minutes of time brainstorming what your Podcast should sound like.
Reading a summary of the movie will help you getting an overview.
Helpful Scenes on DVD:
- Chapter 1: Baby Diego’s death
- Chapter 2: Jasper’s
- Chapter 7 (33:25 – 36:15): Kee
Photos: LK @work @banana 24-09-2008 >>let’s have a look
