Hi!

This blog is an exemplar of how you may want to respond to the Personal Response task for Stand By Me.

Learning Intention:

To create a blog that demonstrates my understanding Stand by me and my ability to connect the ideas explored in the film to my personal experience.

Success Criteria:

Personal Response:
To identify the key ideas in Stand by Me
To describe how Rob Reiner uses film techniques
To analyse the meaning Rob Reiner has conveyed meaning using film techniques
To compose a response that connects Stand By me to my personal experience.

Blog:
To identify the key features of a blog
To describe how information is conveyed in a blog, including writing style
To select appropriate material for blog from a range of sources in order to
Create a blog conveying personal response to the film

What is the Personal Response Task?

This task has some features of a Text Response Essay:

• You will need to respond to a question and discuss what Stand By Me is saying about that question.
  In this exemplar, the question is: “How do Friendships help the boys on their journey towards adulthood”
• You need to provide, and analyse evidence from the film- but the evidence can be stills or short clips, rather than having to write what happened.
• You need to analyse how the features of the text have helped to create or enhance or highlight that meaning.
  For a film, this means you will be drawing on CAMELS

But it also requires you to make connections between what you are saying about Stand By Me with

• Other texts
• Your own lived experience (or those around you)
• Things from around the world that you know about (eg. people you don’t know)

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What is a blog:

A blog is an informational website that is based around a particular theme.  Often they are created by a single person- eg. someone might have a blog about the food they cook for their family; or an entire company- eg. some news organisations have blogs about news and current affairs that have many contributors.

Blogs are usually written using a casual register- almost like you are talking to someone- rather than the academic register expected in an essay.

They also contain a mix of written text, images, links to other websites or pages within the blogs, and often video/audio content.

Have a look at the example blog about Stand By Me.