Primary and Intermediate Schools:
English Screening Menu
The Jackson File
Peter Jackson's love
affair with celluloid, from his earliest
childhood masterpieces to the technical
wizardry of Weta Digital and Wingnut
Films.
(Years 7-8)
Animation Nation
Multichaptered DVD compilation
for different learning levels: tracking
the evloution of animation in New Zealand
from 1930 to the present. Starting off-shore
with the first sound animation film
Steamboat Willie, we look at stop frame,
cel, claymation, direct to film and
computer generation by New Zealand practitioners.
Footrot Flats, Ches
'n Dale, Buzz
& Poppy, Len Lye, Weta Digital
and Taylormade feature.
(Years 3-8)
Let's go to the Movies
Technology and the moving image. A look in detail at the changing
and unchanging techniques in filmmaking. From early New Zealand
silent film to the advent of sound, colour and digital technology.
Tracks the evolution of film grammar and technique with a distinctive
New Zealand flavour from 1900 to the present.
(Years 4-8)
Changes in Film Technology
New Zealand film and television from 1900 to the present. Early
silent footage, community comedy from the 1920s and 30s, early
sound film and animation, the Government newsreel, the television
revolution, early feature trailers, modern cinematography and
special effects. An introduction to the characteristics of different
film and television genre through one hundred years of New Zealand
film and four decades of television.
(Years 3-8)
Turn out the Lights Trevor
Gems from the National Film Library collection — the ones
we waited for on film day between the Nature Study films on the
lifecycle of frogs and the click–clack of the school's ancient
16mm. From Steam Boat Willie, to the legendary Star Wars spoof
Hardware Wars. Nostalgia!
(Years 1-8)
Selling New Zealand
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Advertising on New Zealand from 1961 to 2000. The language and
characteristics of New Zealand television advertising using an
historical progression from the early 60s to the present crop.
From Ches n' Dale to Uncle Telecom, time makes the techniques
more obvious. Unavoidably entertaining.
(Years 5-8)
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