{"id":102,"date":"2019-12-12T08:29:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T08:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/filmclass\/?p=102"},"modified":"2020-01-20T21:48:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T21:48:21","slug":"the-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/filmclass\/the-star\/","title":{"rendered":"The Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sYdqpWTQyaI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does the director\u2019s use of colour set the scene for introducing the two dogs?<\/li>\n<li>How do you think the donkey feels when he sees these animals? Are there any clues in the clip?<\/li>\n<li>Why do you think the director uses a single light when the soldier enters?<\/li>\n<li>The music begins to change as the soldier searches for Mary. Why do you think this is? Do you think it is effective?<\/li>\n<li>The director uses a low angle shot when donkey Is kicked to the ground. Why do you think he uses this?<\/li>\n<li>The mood of the music changes as all the animals appear. Why do you think this is?<\/li>\n<li>The last we see of the soldier is his helmet falling to the ground. What can we infer happened to him?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Credit: Laura McEachran <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MissLMacDonald\" title=\"Laura McEachran (@MissLMacDonald) on Twitter\">@MissLMacDonald<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does the director\u2019s use of colour set the scene for introducing the two dogs? How do you think the donkey feels when he sees these animals? Are there any clues in the clip? Why do you think the director uses a single light when the soldier enters? The music begins to change as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/filmclass\/the-star\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Star<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/filmclass\/uploads\/sites\/8649\/2020\/01\/12083419\/thestar.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/filmclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/filmclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/filmclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/filmclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/filmclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/filmclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/filmclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/filmclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/filmclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/filmclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/filmclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}