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=Watch Out!!! There are hidden meanings in everything you see or hear! Can you see or hear them?=

**Example #1 - Watch the following clip from "The Wild One" then use or answer the guidelines for research in creating your response:**

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** Guidelines for thoughts and research: **
 * __Basic Information __ **

**What is the name of the piece of media you saw/heard? If you don't know the name (such as for TV ads, which all have names to the producers but the names aren't shown on TV), make one up!

Did you see/hear an entire media work or excerpts from one?**


 * What is the medium?**


 * Who produced/wrote/directed it, if you can find out? A useful resource for this kind of information for movies is www.imdb.com**


 * When was it produced/released, if you can find out? Again, see www.imdb.com.**


 * __Critical evaluation and synthesis __**


 * What were the conditions and venue as you viewed/heard it? For example, were you in a real movie theatre, watching in class, watching TV at home while you did homework? Were you sleepy, restless, in a good mood? Anything else important about your interaction with the piece of media?**


 * What was your first impression as you watched/observed/listened to it? Did you enjoy it, dislike it, have any individual reaction to anything in it?

How do you think the creators of this piece of media were trying to affect the audience? You can consider what emotions they were trying to create, whether they wanted the audience to change in some way, whether they were trying to make money in some way, etc.

Describe one idea, one statement about the world expressed in this work. //In this example, start by thinking about a statement you think this film clip makes about why kids like the motorcycle gang were rebelling in the 1950s.//

How is this statement made? For example, is it said directly by the hero? Is it said by a character we're supposed to dislike? Or is it not a direct statement, but something you think the work of media says in a less direct way, such as by something that happens in it?

Considering how this statement is expressed, would you say the work of media, overall, supports this statement, disagrees with this statement or is expressing it in a more neutral way?

If you answered "supports this statement" to the previous question, then we might say the work of media expresses this as a value. If you didn't answer "supports this statement," can you find a value statement about the world that the work of media does seem to support?

Once you have picked one value statement you think the work supports, either directly or indirectly, would you say that you** **agree with the value statement yourself? Why or why not? Are there good arguments on both sides?

Once you've analyzed at least one value statement, create your ultimate review (for now) of the work of media. Include your enjoyment of the work and your analysis of the value. Take your choice of summarizing your reaction in a paper, in a video, on a wiki, on jing, in a discussion or any combination!**


 * //Sometimes, it's useful and fun to compare two pieces of media that present views on the same or similar themes and values. For this next example, compare the value statement about teenage rebellion that you just analyzed from "The Wild One" and the value statement about the same issue from "Rebel Without A Cause" (1955), in a scene with Buzz, a popular kid, and Jim, the new kid. Buzz and his gang have been bullying Jim, making fun of the new kid. They had almost started to have a fight with knives, but then decided to have a "Chickie Run," in which they would each get into an old car and, on a signal, head for a cliff - and whoever jumps out of the car first is a chicken.//**

**Example #2 - Watch the following clip from "Rebel Without A Cause" then use the same guidelines listed above for research in creating your response. Also include a comparison between the value statements the two films make about teenage rebellion in the 1950s.**

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**//Further Ideas for Additional Value Statements in the Two Films:

What does each film say about relationships between boys?

Does either film make any statement, positive or negative, about homosexuality? Before you say neither one does, consider the brief moment in "The Wild One" when two boys pretend to dance together - then laugh about it. Does this reflect the values of that film - or that era - in any way that's different from today?

What does the director do in each excerpt in terms of close-ups? For example, who gets the only close-up in the excerpt from "The Wild One" and what effect does this have?

What is the way Buzz and Jim share a cigarette meant to suggest? How might a modern director change this aspect today, especially in an era when smoking in a film can earn the film a different rating?

Are there any other aspects of either film that seem designed out of commercial considerations (the desire for the film to be successful)? If you can't think of any, do some research. For example, you might research the casting decisions about these two films or the decision, once the studio had seen the first scenes shot for "Rebel," to start again in color - because they realized James Dean could really appeal to young audience.

Research the way these films were advertised. See if you can figure out, for example, the different ways both films were advertised to young people and to their parents. The studios used different messages and advertising techniques to try to get both groups to want to see the film.//

In general, once you have identified a value statement, here are more ways to go deeper about any value statement.

Can you find one other person - a writer, a friend, your teacher, an internet poster, the director of the film on a DVD commentary track - who also think the film supports this value statement or something similar? A useful source once again, for movies and films, can be www.imdb.com, where you can click over on the left on "external reviews" for professional film and TV critics' thoughts or scroll through posts by anonymous posters.

Does that person - call him/her source #1 - does source #1 seem to agree with the value statement?

Can you find another person - source #2 - who also thinks the film makes this particular value statement but has a different opinion about it?**