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Wrtten by Daniella Strbac
 * Under the Sea -3D The Film **
 * Directed by: Howard Hall **



__** Explanation of the resource: **__ Under the Sea 3D film explores some of the most exotic and isolated undersea locations on Earth, including Southern Australian New Guinea and others in the Indo-Pacific region. It will leave the students with an unforgettable learning experience about life Under The Sea.

Under the Sea allows students to become up close and personal with the real life experiences of the most unique species found across the world, and allowing them to explore many animals way of life through interacting with them in an inspirational way. It also allows students to experience the reality of Under the Sea and to explore the beauty of the unknown.

The Great Barrier Reef is explored during the production of the film, in which 3800 of fish and 400 different types of coral are explored that call the great Barrier Reef home. What is captured here is some of the world’s greatest animals, how they eat, play and generally live.

The film also explores the impact of Global Climate Change, which links directly to the unit by providing footage and voice over by Jim Carry on the effects of pollution and GCC to our seas.

__** Relevance to the outcome: **__ As the outcome of this unit deals with The Great Barrier Reef and the effects of pollution, this film links directly to show the students just why we need to make a change. The beauty of being in a 3D film relating to the topic is so that you are experiencing the feeling as close to a real life experience as possible, and here you just do so. It also provided students with an understanding of what will happen to the corals and fish specific to our case study GBR if we don’t make a change. This is achieved by voice over Jim Carry who uses are very persuasive voice, specifically referring to these issues in the last 5 minutes of the film.

__** Aspect of Literacy suitable to be explored: **__

This film was specifically picked as a resource to engage students with the unique life of under the sea, directly linked to the Great Barrier Reef. The wide screen, 3D annotation, voice and sound used throughout the film is not only linked directly to literacy, but also extremely engaging for the students’. Some of literacy links found through film that are common to writing are: narrative structure, sequencing, characterisation and setting which can all be found in films and written texts to engage their audiences (retrieved 28th September 2010, film education) ([])

The visual images used in the film help students identify key features to our unit topic and increase their understanding of how people should interact with the environment in a responsible way. This is not only done through a visual way but also through oral language. With the use of oral language in the film, “students will begin to discover that although spoken language can be written down, most written language is different from speech” (Winch, Johnston, March, Ljungdahl & Holliday, 2006, p. 25). This is seen through the way in which certain messages are sent to the audience, as well as the idea that messages can be sent through film (orally and visually) rather than different text types.