Teaching Media: Thinking About Media Overview Learning Outcomes Preparation and Materials

If they are an animated character, how does the character design make them likeable or unlikeable? If they are a live action character, what is the effect of the casting, costuming and makeup (hair, etc.)? Now ask about how the character is filmed: • Do they get a lot of time onscreen? • Do we often see things from their point of view (as though we were looking through their eyes) or watch them do. [...] The shot has a lot of empty space on the left side of the frame, which makes us feel like the character is giving us space, and his eyeline is at the character whose should we see to far left. [...] Make sure at least half the groups choose to make the one who takes the object the likeable one. [...] Every type of media has a kind of invisible frame, too! Get in the frame with Ava! www.mediasmarts.ca 4 © 2023 MediaSmarts Thinking about Media ● Lesson Plan ● Grades 1 – 6 • Before the video, ask: What kinds of choices do you think people make when they make media, like filming a movie? • After the video, ask: What’s the differe. [...] What makes you remember them? What makes them exciting, or funny, or dramatic? • After the video, ask: Did some of the movie scenes you thought of use the things Ava was talking about, like close-ups, camera angles, and light and colour? (You can use YouTube to watch some of these scenes if you don’t have a copy or access on a streaming service.) Do other media, like comics or video games, use som.