Really great video and vision of the song. Enjoy and comment!

Here is Camille & Clément's vision of the song by Radiohead. They made an interesting comment about it.

This is our video clip on Radiohead song, No surprises. In this video, we will show different viewpoints of the same thing.

We will make the description and then the analysis to finally conclude.

            The video is cut into five times: the quote, first pictures, lotus, second pictures and another quote.

The first quote was said by Shakespeare. And at the end it’s our question.

The pictures come from different news in the world. There is Haiti, Burma, Japan, Libya, Egypt, Ivory Coast and Tunisia.

            The first and the last times can be compared to the introduction and the conclusion. The introduction is Shakespeare’s quote where he speaks about “seven ages”. Here the “seven ages” are epitomized by seven world actualities.

The three other times are inseparable because the first part with photos illustrate the suffering and the claustrophobic atmosphere whereas the second part with photos demonstrate hope. There is a contrast between the times with pictures, there is a separation with the flower which is blooming. The lotus shows rebirth and purification.            

            To conclude, we chose to do our video clip like this because violence is everywhere in our world and sometimes we can't do anything against it. Our video is about the news, you can, if you want, help people like the Japanese just with some money...

                                                           Camille C & Clément B - 1°L2

Very awesome work! Congrats guys!

Trailer created by Claire - Docteur Lacroix.

Want to create a word cloud about anything? Go to this site: http://www.wordle.net/

Here is mind the blog!'s word cloud!

Based on the following picture, we could extract a picture from a newspaper for example and make the pupils imagine what could have happened behind, what could be the hidden truth.

The following campaigns proposed by Stéphanie Cialone could be studied under the same approach.The child is then seen in a wider scope and context.

 Well I love the video and want to do the same for the mariage of some friends. By the way what about making the pupils do the same for another purpose?

We could for example make them tell a story they've imagined. Recording it is not difficult. Free softwares can be found on the net.

Based on the same idea, we could make screen shots such as these:

The following campaigns (one by Unicef and the others by Projeto Arrastào) are very interesting diagrams. I like the way you visually understand the story. I like the variation on the underground maps and the window files arborescence in order to tell a story. The addition of the text and visual is a very interesting thing to work with the pupils, in my opinion. What do you think? What about using this type of detournement?

This kind of visual could be the basis for a work on slogans and catchphrases. We could ask the pupils to keep the visual and change the catchphrase for example.

Here for instance we could write : " crime scene - become a vegetarian". What do you think?

Transcriptions are not really correct though...

I was quite interested in the following Greenpeace campaign:

I was wondering whether it was possible to integrate it in a lesson. The idea would be to make the pupils imagine their own stencils and catchphrases. We could keep Greenpeace's message or use their tool only but for a different purpose. Indeed the stencils would not necessarily represent endangered species but could illustrate human beings living in pollution for example. Any ideas?

PAUL

Presentation:

The photomontage is based on the idea of Russian nesting dolls which is a set of dolls.

In this document, there are three different characters, the little boy from Le Petit Nicolas, then a little baby and finally E.T the Extra-Terrestrial.

Description:

The first character that is to say the big one looks like a normal child, and more precisely he looks like an exemplary child. He is wearing a white shirt with a red jumper. Moreover, this little boy is bue-eyed and brown-haired.

Then, the second character is a baby who is crying. He does not wear any clothes.

Finally, we can see E.T the Extra-Terrestrial who looks weak

Analysis:

The first character looks normal and he is like an exemplary child. Actually, he looks like a child who is intelligent. That's why he is like Paul. Indeed, physically the fourth child looks normal, without any problems.

Then, the second character reveals Paul's childhood and in particular when he was baby. Indeed, he was without any attention from his parents. « Paul lay whimpering in his pram, ignored »

Paul has to share his mother with Ben, the fifth child. He is considered as a toy for Ben, he will remain traumatized by Ben. That's why this child represents Paul because he is suffering because of the lack of attention for him.

Finally, the third character shows Paul's inside him. Indeed, because Ben has broken his arm and has traumatized Paul, the fourth child will be infected by Ben even if he looks like a normal child. Indeed, inside him Paul is disturbed by Ben. That's why we can consider Paul as a monster. Indeed, because he was infected by Ben the monster, he is inside him a monster too. However, he is not an evil monster such as Ben, Paul is a kind monster who is misunderstood and who needs help in particular from his parents such as E.T. Paul is a innocent and frail monster.