Unit 1

How Am I Influenced by Images?

Lesson 8

Reader's Notebook

What Do You See on TV?

This lesson is about how different camera angles that directors choose can affect the meaning of what we see.


The big question for this lesson is "How can TV images present a point of view?"

Click each coloured row for information about the activity.

You are going to be reading about seven different camera angles (close up, extreme close up, long shot, high angle shot, low angle shot, medium shot, and long shot).


Read page 88 of Literacy in Action, and look with your binoculars as described in the text. Then, preview the rest of the selection.

Answer the first section of questions in the Reader's Notebook: What Do You See on TV?




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  1. Have the file open and select Save As from the File menu.
  2. Name your Reader's Notebook: What Do You See on TV? file in this format: jsmith_seeontv and save the file to your Documents folder. You will use this file again later in this lesson.

As you read through this selection on pages 88 to 93 of Literacy in Action, you will complete during reading part of What Do You See on TV.


Use the information from the selection What Do You See on TV? to describe the types of camera shots and explain why each one is used.


Save

How to save a file:

  1. Have the file open and select Save As from the File menu.
  2. Name your Investigating Camera Angles in this format: jsmith_cameraangles and save the file to your Documents folder.

Formative Assessment

  1. This worksheet is similar to homework, which is an opportunity to practise important concepts in the lesson. The worksheet is NOT for marks.
  2. However, your teacher may ask you to submit this worksheet to check on your progress so be sure to save it in your Documents folder.

Think about what you have learned in this selection about camera angles and the information you already have about techniques directors use to create images.


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Open Your File

Go to your Documents folder and open your Reader's Notebook: What Do You See on TV? that you have saved there.

Answer the After Reading section of questions in the Reader's Notebook: What Do You See on TV?


Save

How to save a file:

  1. Have the file open and select Save from the File menu.
  2. Save your Reader's Notebook: What Do You See on TV? file once again to your Documents folder. You will use this file again later in this lesson.
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