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Questions for discussion

Housing Affordability

1. As a class, discuss the BTN Housing Affordability story. What were the main points of the discussion?

2. What does the average Australian house cost?

3. Where do most people get money from to buy a house?

4. Australians on average, earn more than _________times what they did 30 years ago.

5. Houses now are around 30 times more expensive that they were 30 years. True or false?

6. What does that mean for people wanting to buy a house now?

7. What are people in other countries doing to find more affordable housing?

8. Which cities in Australia are some of the least affordable in the world?

9. What is the government doing to help people who want to buy a house?

10. What do you understand more clearly since watching the BTN story?

Write a message about the story and post it in the comments section on the story page.

Skinny Model Laws

1. Discuss the Skinny Model Laws story with another student and record the main points of the discussion.

2. How can images of unhealthily thin models affect people?

3. Finish the following sentence: A lot of images aren’t realistic because they have been…

4. Which countries already have laws that ban models if they are unhealthily skinny?

5. Which country has announced that they are introducing the same laws?

6. Paris is known as the ______________ capital of the world.

7. What will models have to do to prove they’re a healthy weight?

8. What are the consequences for companies that break the law?

9. What is the new law being introduced about using digitally changed images of models?

10. Do you think the laws should be introduced in Australia? Explain your answer.

Check out the Skinny Model Laws resource on the Teachers page

Vote in the BTN Online Poll

Wipe Out Waste

1. What was the main point of the BTN Wipe out Waste story?

2. Briefly explain what the students at Immanuel Primary School doing?

3. Every year, Australians throw out around ________million tonnes of waste?

4. What are students at Star of the Sea school doing to reduce waste?

5. What are they hoping will happen by term 4?

6. Why are the students planning to do more nude food?

7. What advice do the students give to reduce the amount of waste we produce?

8. Why do the schools have an audit every term?

9. What does your school do to reduce the amount of waste produced?

10. How has your thinking changed since watching the BTN story?

Do the quiz on the BtN website

How does the Internet Work?

1. What does the BTN story explain?

2. In which decade was the internet invented?

a. 1950s

b. 1960s

c. 1970s

3. Explain how the internet started.

4. In which year did Tim Berners-Lee create a system for sharing information around the world?

5. What did he call it?

6. How is information transmitted around the world?

7. Describe the cables used to transmit the data.

8. Why are cables quicker and more reliable than satellites?

9. How does Jesse describe the process of sending a picture overseas via the internet?

10. What did you learn watching the BTN story?

Write a message about the story and post it in the comments section on the story page.

Screen It Competition

1. Explain the BTN Screen It Competition story to another student.

2. Which competition are the students entering their films in?

3. Who is running the competition?

4. What is the theme for the competition?

5. Which element of time did the students decide to focus on?

6. What types of films are the students making?

7. The students at Hallett Cove Primary are making films. True or false?

8. What did the students like about creating films and video games?

9. What skills do you think filmmakers need to have?

10. What did you like about the BTN story?

Check out the Screen It Competition resource on the Teachers page.

Teacher Resource

Model Laws

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1. Discuss the Skinny Model Laws story with another student and record the main points of the discussion.

2. How can images of unhealthily thin models affect people?

3. Finish the following sentence: A lot of images aren’t realistic because they have been…

4. Which countries already have laws that ban models if they are unhealthily skinny?

5. Which country has announced that they are introducing the same laws?

6. Paris is known as the ______________ capital of the world.

7. What will models have to do to prove they’re a healthy weight?

8. What are the consequences for companies that break the law?

9. What is the new law being introduced about using digitally changed images of models?

10. Do you think the laws should be introduced in Australia? Explain your answer.

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Note taking

Students will practice their note-taking while watching the BTN Model Laws story. After watching the story, ask students to reflect on and organise the information into three categories.

What information in the story was...?

• Positive

• Negative or

• Interesting

Hold a class discussion about the information in the Model Laws story. Brainstorm students’ responses to the following questions. and respond to the following questions:

• What is body image?

• What is positive body image?

• What is negative body image?

• What factors affect your own body image?

• Who do you think influences you more – your friends (peers), adults, the media?

• Why is the way you see yourself important? (self-esteem, confidence, physical wellbeing)

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Students will investigate in more depth some questions they have about body image.

|Define: What do I want to know? |

|Key questions to research |

|Students can choose one or more of the following questions or come up with their own: |

|Does body image affect male and females in the same way? |

|How does the idea of beauty differ in other cultures? |

|How has the idea of beauty changed over time? |

|Who controls what images we see? |

|Do you think Australia should introduce laws banning unhealthily skinny models? Explain your response. |

|Locate: Where do I find the information? |

|What resources will help answer my questions? (Internet, people, resource centre, organisations, print). Discuss with students what a |

|reliable source is. |

|Select: What information is important for the investigation? |

|Students may need support to sort through and select relevant information. |

|Organise: How do I make sense of the information? |

|Students can organise their research by creating main headings from their questions. Write each heading on a separate piece of paper. |

|Record the information found for each question. |

|Present: How do we let others know about this information? |

|Students decide on the best way to present the information. Possibilities could include: |

|A `Did You Know’ Fact sheet |

|Create an infographic using Canva |

|Prezi presentation |

|Oral presentation |

|Glogster |

|Evaluate: What have we learnt? |

|Students reflect on what they have learnt about body image and respond to the following. |

|What I learned... |

|What I found surprising... |

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Students watch the BTN Skinny Models story then answer the following questions:

1. What is the average dress size of Australian women?

2. About what size do catwalk models need to be?

3. Describe the decision Vogue magazine made.

4. Why was Vogue criticised?

5. Do you think Vogue’s decision will have any impact on the body image issue? Explain your answer.

6. What factors do you think affect a person’s body image?

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Body image and advertising

Discuss with students the role the media plays in influencing a person’s body image. Ask students to consider the following:

• What sorts of images are we exposed to from popular media (advertising, magazines, TV, movies)?

• What techniques are used to alter or change images? Why are the techniques used?

• Is diversity shown in advertising (consider cultural background, body shape, age)?

Look through a range of fashion magazines and select and cut out images of male and females that you think portray negative, unrealistic, unhealthy, or distorted body images. Create a collage using the images. What message are the images sending to young people?

Find examples in the media of fashion or beauty companies that are trying to portray a more realistic view. What strategies are they using? Do you think it is effective? An example is the Dove Evolution commercial

Ask students if they think the commercial is effective. Why or why not?

Working in pairs or small groups, students create their own advertisement that encourages young people to have a positive body image.

BBC News – France bans extremely thin models



BTN – Skinny Models



Kids Helpline – The truth about body image



BTN - Fresh Faced Friday



Reach Out – What is body image?



Child and Youth Health – Body Image



Teacher Resource

Screen It Competition

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1. Explain the BTN Screen It Competition story to another student.

2. Which competition are the students entering their films in?

3. Who is running the competition?

4. What is the theme for the competition?

5. Which element of time did the students decide to focus on?

6. What types of films are the students making?

7. The students at Hallett Cove Primary are making films. True or false?

8. What did the students like about creating films and video games?

9. What skills do you think filmmakers need to have?

10. What did you like about the BTN story?

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Class Discussion

After watching the BTN Screen It Competition story, respond to the following questions:

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Students develop a glossary of words and terms that relate to film making. Below are some words to get them started. Add words and meanings to your glossary as you come across unfamiliar words throughout your research. Consider using pictures and diagrams to illustrate meanings.

|Stop Motion |Animation |Storyboard |

|Live action |Green screen |Dialogue |

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Create a simple animation

Students will begin by making a simple animation – either a flipbook or a thaumatrope.

Flipbook

Flipbooks are one of the easiest ways to create the illusion of movement and are a good place to begin exploring animation. 

Download – Make your own flipbook by following these instructions

Students will begin this activity by thinking of a simple movement they would like to show in their flipbook animation, for example, a balloon being blown up, a flower growing or a dog chasing a cat.

Thaumatrope

A thaumatrope is a card with different pictures on opposite sides that seem to combine when the card is twirled. Watch this YouTube Video to see how a thaumatrope works.

|Materials |Instructions |

| |Before you begin, choose two related pictures to draw – for example, a fish and a |

|Piece of cardboard |fishbowl, a bird and a birdcage. |

|Rubber bands or string |Cut a circle from a piece of cardboard. |

|Drawing equipment |On one side of the cardboard, draw a fish (or a bird). |

|Hole punch |On the other side of the cardboard, draw a fishbowl (or another picture). Remember one |

| |image must be upside down |

| |Punch a hole in each side of the cardboard circle. |

| |Attach the rubber bands or string to each hole. |

| |Twist the string/rubber bands and pull tight to spin the cardboard. The two images |

| |should appear as one. |

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Stop motion animation

Create your own short 3D clay animation film using stop motion animation. Follow these steps to animate a plasticine ball using smartphones or tablets.

|Step 1 |Download a Stop Motion App from the App Store |

| |Some of the best apps are Stop Motion Studio and Lego Movie Maker. |

|Step 2 |Create a small workspace |

| |A large sheet of paper taped up against a table and a wall provides a nice simple backdrop.|

|Step 3 |Position and secure the camera |

| |Place your device so that the camera is facing your workspace. Blu-tack and masking tape |

| |work well, or for extra stability use a device holder. |

|Step 4 |Prepare the shot |

| |Place a ball of plasticine in front of the camera so that you can see it on the screen. |

|Step 5 |Start taking pictures |

| |You can now start by taking your first photo, which is usually the large red button on most|

| |apps. |

|Step 6 |Move the ball |

| |Move the ball slightly to the right about half a centimetre. |

|Step 7 |Take another photo |

| |Once you’ve moved your hand out of the way, take another photo. |

|Step 8 |Move the ball again, then take another photo |

| |Now move the ball half a centimetre in the same direction, then take another photo. Repeat |

| |the process of moving the ball and taking photos. |

|Step 9 |Play the animation |

| |Once you have a sequence of photos you can play the video to see how it looks. When you’ve |

| |mastered rolling a ball around, maybe you can move on to something a little trickier. Try |

| |morphing the ball into another shape, or create a character out of plasticine and bring |

| |them to life with animation! |

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Make your own short film

Working in small groups, students will create they own short film. Ask each group to think about ideas for their film. Each group needs to answer the following questions:

• What is your story about?

• Where is the story set?

• Who are the characters in the story?

• What are the characters going to say? (dialogue)

• What is the problem in the story?

• ’How is the problem solved?

When students have worked out a basic idea for their film, they can create a storyboard. Storyboards look like comic books and have a picture for every shot in the film. The ACMI website has a storyboard generator to help students plan their story.

Students can use devices such as smartphones or tablets to record their films. The Behind the News website has some tips to help students with the filming process.

Enter the ACMI Screen It competition. Entries close 25 September 2017. Go to the ACMI website for all the details.

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ACMI – Screen It Competition



BTN – Tropfest



BtN: Episode 12 Transcript 16/05/17

Hi, I'm Nathan Bazley and this is BTN!

Coming up today:

• Should unhealthily thin models be used in fashion? France is now saying no but what do you think?

• We take a look at how some schools are looking to go bin-free in the near future.

• And in BTN Investigates how does the internet work? We sent Tash undercover for some reason to find out.

You can see all that and more soon but first:

Housing Affordability

Reporter: Amelia Moseley

INTRO: The 2017 budget was released last week and in it there was some bad news for uni students, the big banks and taxpayers. While there was good news for school students disabled people and older people there was also some good news in there for people trying to buy their first home. That's been a big issue recently that you might have heard called 'housing affordability'. Here's more on what that is and why it's a problem.

What would your dream house look like?

KID 1 So I would have a three-story house in the country with a big swimming pool in the back, a lot of metres with the swimming pool.

KID 2 My dream house would be in the hills. It would be two storeys and it would be accessible to cats everywhere you went.

KID 3 It would be three storeys in a grassland area and there'd be umm three stories and there'd be a balcony so you could see animals walk past, there would also be a petting zoo and I'd have a pet unicorn!

KID 4 I would have a house in the middle of the desert with a movie cinema for a loungeroom and the AFL oval for a backyard.

Owning a home is something a lot of people dream about! But while the average Australian probably won't end up with one with a huge swimming pool or a movie theatre, there've been worries lately that many won't be able to afford a house at all. Houses are the most expensive things most people will ever buy and unfortunately, they're getting pricier.

AMELIA, REPORTER Today, the average Australian house costs around $656,800. I don't know about you, but that's definitely more than I have!

It's more money than most people have, which is why they borrow money from a bank to buy one. Then you have to pay it back plus interest, which is extra money you're charged on top of what you borrowed.

Houses have never been more expensive than now. Meanwhile, people's wages haven't gone up as much. So, to put that in perspective: Australians on average earn more than ten times what they did 40 years ago, but houses now are around 30 times more expensive than back then. That means compared to around the time your grandparents might've bought a house, houses now are more expensive to buy and harder to pay off.

We're definitely not the only country struggling with house prices, and governments everywhere are trying to work out how to fix the problem. But in some big cities, people are already finding creatively cheaper ways to become home-owners like living in a canal boat in London, or in an old shipping container in Denmark! Hmm not bad.

That said, Australians are still worse off than Britain, America, Canada and most of Europe when it comes to housing affordability! In fact, Sydney and Melbourne now have some of the least affordable real estate in the world! So now, the government says it has a plan (and no, it doesn't involve houseboats or shipping containers). In its new budget, it's doing a few things to try to help people who want to buy a house: It's making it easier for people to save for their first home, it's making it harder for people from overseas to buy homes as an investment so Australians won't have to compete against them to buy, and it's trying to encourage older people to sell their homes and move into smaller ones to make room for young families.

But some reckon there's still a long way to go, and more that can be done, to make sure people's housing dreams can one day come true!

This Week in News

Computers around the world have been hit by a massive cyber-attack.

150 countries were affected including at least one Aussie business.

Hospitals in the UK were the hardest hit - patient records were blocked and operations had to be postponed.

It was caused by something called ransomware which allows hackers to access your computer if you open an infected file.

If you want to find out more about how it happened check in with BTN next week for all the details!

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered more than 17 new mummies in an ancient tomb.

They were found 8 metres below the ground in a burial chamber south of Cairo that was first found last year.

The mummies are thought to be more than 2000 years old.

NASA astronauts have performed their 200th space walk on the International Space Station.

Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer put on their spacesuits to replace an electronics box.

Whitson's done 9 spacewalks before but this was Fischer's first and he was pretty excited!

JACK FISCHER, ASTRONAUT: Oh my gosh, this is beautiful!

PEGGY WHITSON, ASTRONAUT: Isn't it!

Scientists have named a new species of dinosaur!

This spiky, tank-like dinosaur with a sledge-hammer tail has been named Zuul.

It was named after Zuul the Terror Dog in the classic 80s film 'Ghostbusters' because scientists thought it looked a bit like the character.

They even got Ghostbusters actor Dan Aykroyd to introduce it!

Dan Aykroyd, ACTOR: You're looking at a close-up of the terror dog from the movie Ghostbusters. And this is a real terror dog!

Zuul is said to have lived in the Cretaceous Period 75 million years ago and is a member of the Ankylosaur family.

It was found last year in the US state of Montana.

And Portugal has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest!

Salvador Sobral took out the world's biggest song competition with this performance.

Australia's Isaiah Firebrace put in an awesome performance coming in at 9th place.

Fellow Aussie Anja Nissen actually performed for Denmark and came 20th.

But as always it the colourful sometimes crazy acts of Eurovision that get people tuning in.

Skinny Model Laws

Reporter: Amelia Moseley

INTRO: Next up today, in France laws have recently been introduced that make it illegal to hire unhealthily thin models. Ads featuring photo-shopped images must now be clearly labelled there, too. We find out how the changes work and ask you if you'd like to see them introduced here in Australia.

The fashion industry is all around us. On our screens, in magazines and ads. But while it might all look glamorous, fashion can have a dark side. To walk in high end fashion shows, get their pictures in glossy magazines, or become a famous face, many models, who are often still teenagers, say they feel pressure to lose weight and look thin.

Even though some people are naturally skinny, trying to be really skinny can lead to some big issues like unhealthy or even dangerous eating habits. The same kind of pressure can also be felt by the young people who see the images everywhere.

AMELIA, REPORTER Experts say these kind of images can actually have a bad effect, because they can make people think they need to look a certain way. But looking this way isn't always healthy, in fact, it isn't even always realistic, because a lot of this stuff is digitally altered.

KID 1: They're photo-shopping the images which makes them look unreal and fake, like plastic.

KID 2: I do find that it's not just girls that get photo-shopped, it's also a lot of guys I’ve seen like for perfume ads I’ve seen a lot of guys being photoshopped and in general just fashion ads.

KID 3: It could make young people feel that they're not normal and the other photo-shopped people are normal.

KID 4 I would like to see normal bodies so that people don't have to worry about what they look like.

That's why there's been a lot of talk over the past few years about trying to change the culture of the fashion industry. Italy, Spain and Israel already have laws which ban models from working if they're unhealthily skinny. Now France is doing the same. That's a big deal because Paris is known as the fashion capital of the world where a lot of young models get their big break.

So, from now on, for a model to be eligible for a job here they have to get a doctor's certificate to prove they're a healthy weight. If a company breaks the rules and hires a model without checking with their doctor, they could face fines of up to 100 thousand dollars and staff could get jail-time of up to six months!

The French government's also trying to stop so many unrealistic images popping up in the media.

AMELIA, REPORTER: From October, if an ad in France has digitally altered a model's appearance then it has to be honest about it and say on the picture that it's been retouched.

Or advertisers could face a fine of up to 55 thousand dollars!

The French health ministry is hoping the new laws will lead the way for change everywhere, so we'll have to wait and see if fashion starts heading in a new direction.

Ask A Reporter

Have you got a question about France's new model laws? Ask me live on Friday during Ask a Reporter! Head to our website for all the details.

Poll

And we'd like to know if you think those laws should be introduced here, too. Let us know in our online poll.

School Waste

Reporter: Jack Evans

INTRO: Now for the second part of our War on Waste special. We're visiting two schools on a mission to wipe out waste. So much so, they're aiming to soon be completely binless. Take a look.

These guys are taking out the trash. But they're making sure they've sorted it first. Here at Immanuel primary talking rubbish is encouraged.

STEVIE: We're sorting the rubbish from our landfill bins into groups like organic, paper and cardboard, 10c bottles and things like that and plastic.

They're just one of the schools on a huge mission to reduce, reuse and recycle just about everything. It's all part of a program that's teaching kids how to wipe out waste

EMMA JANE: We're going to decrease the amount of plastic we're going to use here at the school and each classroom

Every year Aussies throw out around 50 million tonnes of waste, which is about 2 tonnes per person. Most of that waste can actually be reused, recycled or composted at home or at school. And Immanuel isn't the only school trying to clean up their act.

REPORTER: These guys at Star of the Sea School are sorting through their rubbish and making sure it goes into the right bin, does anyone have a peg?

Each class has three different bins. First there's compost; things that can break down in the environment, like food scraps, compostable papers and garden materials. Then there's recycle; materials that can be reused, like paper, glass and anything with this logo. And finally reduce; this is the rubbish that can't be recycled or composted which includes some food packaging and broken things that can't be repaired or recycled. This is the stuff that ends up in land fill. But these guys are hoping to reduce that waste so much that by term 4 they could be completely bin free.

JUDAH: What we are planning to do is get a lot more nude food. Getting more containers instead of wrappers and, also trying to reduce our wrappers.

RUBY: Say if you had a chip packet maybe buy the bigger packet and then put that into a container and then bring it home and wash it so that we are sending less to landfill.

GEORGIE: So, what we're trying to do at our school is we're trying to reduce the amount of landfill. So, this little bin will replace the landfill bin in our classrooms and our goal is to just fill this up each day of landfill

EVIE: At the moment, we have the bigger bins outside during recess and lunch within the classrooms we have the mini bins so and by the end of term 4 we're hoping to have no bins no landfill.

Every term both Star of the Sea and Immanuel have an audit, to make sure everything is going into the right bin and to keep them focused on their goal.

PARIS: Each class brings their green bins to the middle of the courtyard and we take all the compost things to the compost bin.

JEMMA: If we see a plastic zip lock bag we would most likely take it out and put in the landfill bin because it won't break down.

At the moment both schools are working towards just one wheelie bin a week and they say it won’t be too long before they can proudly say that their school is completely waste free.

PRESENTER: And just a reminder the ABC's War on Waste special will premiere Tuesday night at 8:30 on ABC1 or catch it on iView anytime afterwards.

Quiz

And while we're still on waste let's go to a quiz about it.

Recycling one tonne of paper will save approximately how many trees?

1

6

13

The answer - 13

How does the Internet Work?

Reporter: Natasha Thiele

ELIAS: Hi BTN, my name’s Elias and my question is how does the internet work?

REPORTER: Mission accepted!

It's our go to for top secret answers, it's how we snoop out our friends and it's where you can tap into some really funny videos. And we can access this stuff pretty much anywhere at anytime. It's the internet but it's come a long way from where it started!

The internet can be traced back to the 1960s in the US. It started as a network of just four computers that were running on different operating systems which could share information. Local universities and government departments linked into that network and other countries joined it too. Turning it into a massive international network and giving it the name we use today. But the guy who helped the internet really take off was Tim Berners-Lee. In 1989, he created a system used for sharing information on the internet which he named the World Wide Web.

Now, around 3.2 billion people around the world use the internet. Anyone can post information on there that's why it's really important not to believe everything you read! But how does it all actually work? Well, I went on a little mission to ask an expert!

REPORTER: Hi Jesse, how you going?

JESSE SANDERY, INTERNET EXPERT: Hello Tash! Sorry about the noise. There's a lot of computers busy at work here today.

REPORTER: Is it a bit loud! Thanks for having me, so can you tell me Jesse how on the earth does the internet work?

JESSE: Yeah well there are millions of computers and servers just like this that connect us all around the world okay and they're connected by these very large cables but believe it or not, most of these cables that connect these together are actually under the sea.

These cables are about as thick as a can of soft drink. They're buried in shallow areas of the ocean or found in water up to 8-thousand metres deep. They carry fibre optic cables that allow internet data to travel from one place to another really quickly and they're a lot quicker and reliable than satellites because data doesn't need to travel up and then back down again. The internet wouldn't be possible without these cables so people and even sharks have tried to damage them in the past!

REPORTER: What if I wanted to send a picture to say a friend overseas, how does that all work?

JESSE: Yeah good question, so look think of every computer and every website it has what's called an IP address which is like a street address okay so if you want to send a picture to a friend of yours overseas, if we imagine for a moment that picture is like a puzzle and it had hundreds of tiny puzzle pieces connected to it okay and what we do is when we send that picture, these little pieces they get sent one by one and they have pieces of information on them that tell us where we want to send that picture to okay and once that picture reaches its destination, it stitches itself back up and you get to see the picture on the other end.

REPORTER: Well thanks for teaching me a bit more about the internet.

JESSE: No worries!

REPORTER: So, I think I've accomplished my mission! That's a wrap!

Did you know?

The world's biggest search engine processes 3.5 billion searches a day.

That's 40,000 every second.

Sport

Around 10,000 people came to Jung-Wun stadium in Shanghai to watch the first regular season AFL game to be played in outside of Australia or New Zealand!

It was a bit of a walkover. Port thumped the Suns by 72 points but organisers have called the game a success. It was broadcast on national Chinese TV and the AFL hopes it might have attracted a few new fans!

¶Daniel Ricciardo has landed his first podium finish of 2017 finishing third in the Spanish Grand Prix.

RICCIARDO: You know for now we take all we can it’s nice to be up on the podium.

Meanwhile, a 6-year-old F1 fan got the chance to meet his idol Kimi Raikkonen after he got a bit upset when the `iceman’ crashed on the first turn of the race. Ferrari saw Thomas’ reaction and invited him down to the pits to see his hero was okay.

¶In a stunning return to form Tyler Wright has won the World Surf League event in Brazil!

The reigning world champion had a tough start to the year but the win puts her equal first in the women's rankings.

¶If you reckon YOU'RE a thrill seeker well, meet 101-year old Verdun Hayes.

The Second World War veteran broke a world record on the weekend becoming the oldest person to tandem sky-dive! He made the jump with his son, grandson, and great-grandson.

Verdun Hayes: I’m absolutely over the moon. It’s beautiful.

¶And if you thought a day of golfing could get a little boring try playing in South Africa. These guys had to pause their game while they waited for a huge snake to slither across the course. It’s probably best that they just left him to it.

Screen It Competition

Reporter: Jack Evans

INTRO: Finally today, if you're a budding young film maker, animator or video game creator, this story is for you. The Australian Centre for the Moving Image has just opened entries for this year's national 'Screen It' competition. It asks school students to create and submit a short film or video game. So, we caught up with two schools working on their entries right now.

These guys are filming what they hope will be a winning scene. They're working on short films that will be entered into Australia's biggest student film competition, Screen It. It's run by the Australian Centre of Moving Image or ACMI and its a chance for the next generation of screen creators to show off their stuff.

JOVANA: The competition is called screen it and many schools go head to head to see who can make the best film.

Each year ACMI sets a different theme to be used as inspiration and this year's theme is time.

HENRY: We all looked at the elements of time past, present and future and we all decided to do future.

Nadia: We brainstormed what time meant some people thought of clocks time machines in the future history in the past and we came up with frozen in time. So, we made our film about mute button to freeze the noise.

Now, they're taking those ideas and getting creative. Making live action films, animations, stop motion and some are even using a green screen to create special effects.

The competition isn't just for film enthusiasts either. Hallett Cove Primary are busy coding time themed video games to enter into the comp.

MAX: We used the movie back to the future and we also used a maze we combined that together and made a future maze.

NATALIE: Well I'm doing a maze game cause I love the way of mazes and I think mazes are my special talent.

Organisers say Screen It is a great chance for students to get creative and learn some new skills and these guys are loving it.

ISABELLE: I've learnt that film making takes time, you can't push it and it's also fun and you can make loads of new friends.

MAX: We have really enjoyed making our game and yes, we would like to make a career making doing our game because we love making video games.

Natalie: If you want to do this I hope I hope that I've inspired you for it.

Closer

And that's it for today! But there is heaps more for you on our website including all of our suggested class activities for this ep. Thanks for joining me and I'll see you on Friday for #AskaReporter and then next week for more BTN.

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Episode 12

16th May 2017

Episode 12

16th May 2017

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Students will investigate what body image is, what influences it and the impact images in the media have on a person’s body image.

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Health and Physical Education Years 3, 4, 5 & 6

Identify and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS036) (ACPPS054)

Health and Physical Education Years 5 & 6

Examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour and relationships (ACPPS056)

Examine how identities are influenced by people and places (ACPPS051)

Investigate the role of preventive health in promoting and maintaining health, safety and 

wellbeing for individuals and their communities (ACPPS058)

Episode 12

16th May 2017

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Students will learn about different types of animation and create a 3D clay animation film using the stop motion technique.

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Media Arts – Years 3 & 4

Use media technologies to create time and space through the manipulation of images, sounds and text to tell stories (ACAMAM059)

Investigate and devise representations of people in their community, including themselves, through settings, ideas and story structure in images, sounds and text (ACAMAM058)

Media Arts – Years 5 & 6

Explore representations, characterisations and points of view of people in their community, including themselves, using settings, ideas, story principles and genre conventions in images, sounds and text (ACAMAM062)

Develop skills with media technologies to shape space, time, movement and lighting within images, sounds and text (ACAMAM063)

Media Arts – Years 7 & 8

Plan, structure and design media artworks that engage audiences (ACAMAM069)

Analyse how technical and symbolic elements are used in media artworks to create representations influenced by story, genre, values and points of view of particular audiences (ACAMAR071)

• What did you SEE in this video?

• What do you THINK about what you saw in this video?

• What does this video make your WONDER?

• What did you LEARN from this story?

• How did this story make you FEEL?

• What was SURPRISING about this story?

Source: Make your own Thaumatrope, University of Adelaide

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