018 – Revision of persuasive techniques

Today we are going to have a go at identifying the persuasive techniques below. If you have studied the persuasive techniques on p.44 of your resource book, then you should try and do this task from memory. If you didn’t revise the persuasive techniques on p.44, then you can you your book; however, you must ensure that you no all these techniques before the exam.

  1. There is a long tradition of allowing students to choose subjects in higher school; it would be unwise to take this right away from them because we don’t agree with their choices.
  2. If you punch someone if the face, they are likely to retaliate; increased attacks on American targets is inevitable given the number of wars they have started in recent years.
  3. Percy’s Pulizter Prize pick was perfect.
  4. It will be a long time before the we achieve the status of ‘Republic’ but, queen or no queen, barbeques and mateship will always be a part of who we are.
  5. Al Gore continues to repeat that ‘the climate change debate is over,’ but what about the thousands of respected scientist that have publicly stated that they don’t believe the theory of ‘man-made’ global warming? How come he never mentions them?
  6. It’s not like you care about a bunch of low-life criminals, is it?
  7. Six separate surveys, carried out independently, make the same claim: that one third of Australian Women think they are not beautiful.
  8. They can say what they want about the government but we all know that unless we address the issue of the private owned mega-banking cartels, poverty and corruptions will be with us forever.
  9. We are the only ones who can make things better; it’s our world. It is up to us to fight for liberty.

012 – Continue pre-production

Today we are going to continue planning of our trailers. In the groups that you worked in last lesson, trying and complete the following:

1) Create a storyboard of the first 12 shots of your trailer
2) Create a shot list for your entire trailer
3) Write a short script for your trailer
4) Write a list of props and costumes and decide who will be responsible for bringing them
5) Allocate who will act, film, be responsible for lighting be the director etc

It might help if you assign the first three tasks to different members of your group, for example: two of you could work on the script, while one of you works on the storyboard, which would leave two of you to work on the shot list.

It is expected that you have each of these things typed up or photocopied so the director has them to refer to during the production phase.

Good luck.