Sec+4+-+The+Matrix+(By+Dr.+Nick+Mercer)

=Online Lessons for "The Matrix"= By Dr Nicholas Richard Mercer

__LEARNING OUTCOMES__

CORE CURRICULUM **
 * Students can identify specific film codes and conventions and evaluate how they create meaning.
 * Students can identify symbols and motifs and evaluate how they create meaning.
 * Students canive discern controlling viewpoints, perspectives, attitudes, values and/or assumptions.


 * CURRICULUM OF CONNECTIONS **
 * Students understand how intertextual meaning is generated through relationships between different texts.
 * Students understand that creators of media texts (film directors) use established and evolving techniques to maximise appeal to specific audiences and/or individual viewers.
 * Students understand how formal techniques, motifs and symbols connect and reinforce the broader themes of the text.


 * CURRICULUM OF PRACTICE **
 * Students select, evaluate and organise information from the text in order to discuss it and write about it.
 * Students use knowledge of principle characteristics of media texts to construct written response.


 * CURRICULUM OF IDENTITY **
 * Students reflect on how the main theme explored in the film related directly to their own experience of visual media and the 'hyperreality' of contemporary social life.

__//The Matrix -// Emergency Online Lesson 1__

View the clip below and examine how: 1. Framing techniques are used to create meaning, establish point of view and inform our perception of the scene. 2. Decor, costume and staging is used to create intertextual meaning. 3. The film uses specific motifs: identify the motifs and describe the way they create meaning.
 * EXERCISE 1 **

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 * Instructions**: type a one paragraph (300 words) response to each numbered point in a word document and upload the file below.


 * Student Responses (please make sure your name and class is written at the top of your document)**

In the sequence above Neo passes from the simulated world of The Matrix to the real world through a mirror. Discuss the symbolic significance of the mirror as well as the other reflective surfaces in the film.
 * EXERCISE 2 **


 * Instructions**: type an 600 word response in a word document and upload the file below.


 * Student Responses (please make sure your name and class is written at the top of your document)**

Discuss whether ignorance is indeed bliss in The Matrix. Would you choose the red or the blue pill? Why?
 * DISCUSSION **


 * Instructions:** use the discussion forum on this page to post comments.


 * RESOURCES **