Tuesday, April 16, 2013

I have not updated the blog for a while.  The following film is a summary -- sort of a summary -- of the Xtranormal animation project we have been working on.  This film provides them with a sense of direction of how to sculpt the film.

The class has had a lot of time to work on it in class and are able to access the program from home with the use of their username and password.

Watching the TIFF film, Know My Name will happen tomorrow at the TIFF Bell Lightbox theatre.  I have posted the film trailer before, but I will do it again:

We have been talking a fair bit about the idea of gender in class.  We had a good conversation about how gender identities are locked or fixed in boxes.  The idea of the open "gender box" means that we need to unpack many of our ideas about how boys and girls, and men and women are expected to behave.

We made the further connection that some ideas around gender may lead to bullying.  An extreme example is what happened to Halifax teen, Rehtaeh Parsons who was raped and then had photos of the incident posted online. 





On a different note.  Page views to this blog, over 2 years, have reached over 10, 000.

There is no homework this evening.