English: Film Study - Hurumanu - "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover"

After watching the movie "Coraline", we are now working on the tasks and activities regarding the movie. There were two task selections that we can choose to do and blog about. In our lesson, our topic is focused on the "Themes and Ideas" of the film. "Theme" means the motto of the story, what it's trying to teach the audience, what the meaning of the movie is and how it can relate and help us. The "Idea" means what happened in the movie, such as the introduction of the characters, character development, the problem in the movie, the solution, etc. 

One task was creating a mindmap about the theme, meaning which characters fit in one of those categories. There were around 3-4 themes in the movie, the themes were...

"Be careful what you wish for" 

"Looks can be deceiving" 

"Be grateful with what you have"

"Don't judge a book by its cover" 

One task was creating a booklet that is of course, about the theme as well. Basically, you can choose whether you want to make a booklet or a mindmap but it still has to be about the theme of the movie and its characters. 

I've chosen a mindmap because I think that It will be easier for me to arrange the characters and the scenes. I used the site "Coggle", I recommend this for everyone who wants to make a mindmap, it's very useful and essential. 

What am I learning? I'm learning about figuring out the storyline, characters, but mainly the theme and ideas of the film. 

How does this show my learning? This shows how much I've improved throughout the course of my learning in film study. By recognizing the meaning of the movie, which characters fit in the categories and figuring out if they're a good character or not.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning? I've realised the moral of the story, I've learnt that not everyone who is good to you has good intentions. That just because they are nice doesn't mean that that's who they actually are, you need to get to know the person more because trusting them.