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Erin Spavins

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
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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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May 4, 20231 min read
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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, 20232 min read
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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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Apr 13, 20231 min read
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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
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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
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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 30, 20231 min read
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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 27, 20232 min read
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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, 20231 min read
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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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Jan 9, 20232 min read
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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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Dec 5, 20221 min read
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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, 20221 min read
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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 24, 20222 min read
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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 22, 20222 min read
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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 18, 20222 min read
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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
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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 10, 20221 min read
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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 9, 20221 min read
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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, 20221 min read
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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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Nov 5, 20222 min read
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