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Erin Spavins
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May 4, 20231 min read
Viewing: Elvis Cinema Trip
As a Design for Film and Television course, we went on a cinema trip to Broadway Cinema to watch the film Elvis. The movie starts by...
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May 4, 20231 min read
Emmerdale Trip
We visited The Emmerdale set and got to explore the Art Department office along with the different sets where Emmerdale is filmed. It was...
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Apr 13, 20232 min read
Contextual Studies Final Essay
Below is a copy of my final Contextual Studies essay: One of the most challenging things I found when writing my essay was trying to...
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Apr 13, 20231 min read
Essay Plan
Before writing the final essay, I wanted to ensure that the essay was fully thought out and structured by summarising key points in a...
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Jan 30, 20231 min read
Costume theory- Why do we wear clothes?
Why do we wear clothes? uniform Identity comfort individuality mood attracting a mate sexuality protection status/class warmth self...
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Jan 30, 20231 min read
Viewing: Citizen Kane
A group of reporters are trying to decipher the last word ever spoken by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon:...
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Jan 30, 20231 min read
Viewing: Jean Virgo: Zero de Conduite 1933
Banned for up to 60 years around Europe, follows a group of unhappy schoolboys who are fed up with their repressive teachers at a state...
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Jan 27, 20232 min read
Art Exhibition
I visited the CEDAR LEWISOHN: PATOIS BANTON art exhibition in Bonington Gallery. I was fascinated to see how the work was centred around...
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Jan 9, 20231 min read
Visit: Trip To Shuttleworth
To further my research for the World War 2 period elements proejct, I visited Shuttleworth Musuem to get a further understanding of what...
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Jan 9, 20232 min read
Visit: Trip to Bletchley Park
For my next project- Period elements with DFTV, I am looking at the period of World War 2 and therefore for initial research, I visited...
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Dec 5, 20221 min read
Contextual Studies Research Project Presentation
I created this PowerPoint on my idea and research carried out so far. Here is my formative feedback: good labelled and referenced...
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Nov 24, 20221 min read
Viewing: 1930s Hollywood- The Scarlett Empress 1934 Josef Von Stemberg
The film is the sixth of seven collaborations between von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich, and the strangest. It provides Peter's...
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Nov 24, 20222 min read
Viewing: Busby Berkeley 42nd Street
The director and choreographer who made the camera move: •Busby Berkeley (born Berkeley William Enos; November 29, 1895 – March 14, 1976)...
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Nov 22, 20222 min read
Research for Newstead Abbey Live project: Visiting Blenheim Palace 'Alice in Wonderland Christmas'
Last Christmas, my family and I visited a Christmas Alice in Wonderland exhibition at Blenheim Palace. I have used images taken from last...
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Nov 18, 20222 min read
Critical thinking: Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies
This weeks activity from Contextual Studies: Read a Guardian long read and critically evaluate your chosen source Chosen article: Rain is...
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Nov 10, 20221 min read
Viewing: A date with Destino
After watching the stunning Destino film inspired and influenced through Dali's surrealistic paintings, I went onto watch Dali and Disney...
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Nov 10, 20221 min read
Viewing: Metropolis
Context behind the film: 1927 sound came into film Robot- never before thought of mechanical person man out of the earth to protect the...
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Nov 9, 20221 min read
Viewing: Destino
Today we viewed Disney's Destino- Disney's take on surrealism. I really enjoyed watching this short film and how different elements of...
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Nov 5, 20221 min read
Collab 1- First Session
During our first session, we carried out interactive tasks in groups that included students from a range of courses to get to know one...
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Nov 5, 20222 min read
Viewing: Big Eyes
Was this film based on fact or fiction? While watching the film Big Eyes, I was asked to carry out a fact check alongside watching the...
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