Research Skills
Referencing exercise
Use the website ‘Cite Them Right Online https://www.citethemrightonline.com/Home, (you will need to log through the institutions – EKC) to put together a Harvard References List for the following sources:
You can use Microsoft Word referencing tool too:
BOOK: (Mathias, 2015)
WhatsApp (Anon., 2015)
Instagram (intagram, n.d.)
Journal Article (Hosein, 2019)
Screenshot (screenshot you done on your computer) (shot, 2021)
YouTube video (Edutopia, 2012)
Webpage (BBC, 2020)
Facebook (the film zone, n.d.)
A photograph from the Internet
Richard Avedon (Avedon, n.d.)
Who am I?
What is important to me?
Being happy, confident in myself, doing things I enjoy, living stress-free.
What is my ideal day?
Waking up to an empty clean/tidy house binging a tv show in the most comfortable clothes EVER, eating my favourite foods and not having any work or jobs to do.
What is my dream/ideal job?
My ideal/dream job would be to not be doing the same thing everyday, I would love it to be out of an office and on my feet all day. My job would enable me to meet lots of amazing people and experience so many opportunities traveling the world. I want it to make me excited to work and still allow me to have a life outside of everything.
I get a real sense of fulfilment when I....
realise I'm not scared for the future I'm excited because, I'm happy where I am currently with friends, family, school/work life and myself it can only get better with the more opportunities I take on.
What are your life goals?
To live in new York, Australian and Canada for a bit and different parts of my life, live with amazing friends, say yes when one in a million chances head my way. Meet some really cool people, travel as much as I can by finding a job that can let me do all these things.
Top 3 things I do that makes me happy to be me:
1- I'm curious, when I find something interesting I make sure to ask lots of questions
2- I take in big moments and understand when something is important
3- I tend to notice what makes others happy and try to get that for them as much as possible
What is one thing I really want to do?
skydiving
Favourite films:
- 500 days of summer (although it did not turn out how I wanted it too it still makes me happy when I watch it, I also love the way they filmed it, by switching between the different points of the 500 days although confusing it makes you want to find out what happens between to get to that point)
- groundhog day (having one of my favourite actors Bill Murray this movie is just satisfying to watch, the amount of attention to detail it had to repeat the same day throughout the whole movie)
- the Truman show (I hated the ending of this movie as I really really wanted to see what happens to him on the other side of this fake town that had been created to live his life whilst being filmed)
- all of the Tim Burton movies, especially sleepy hallow (most of the movies have an ere feel to them because of how the characters and surroundings behave)
- I LOVE stop motion movies such as coralline, corpse bride, box trolls, the nightmare before Christmas, frankenweenie I've watched so many behind the scenes seeing the amount of work that goes into such short scenes, the different materials used to get shadows accurate and smooth movement from the characters.
- Marvel movies (All of the hidden messages, the crossing of characters in the upcoming movies, the marvel series my favourite would have to be WandaVision, the worlds and universes marvel has created just bring me so much joy)
- the perks of being a wallflower (its just a very comforting movie, although it made me cry It still makes me really happy when I watch it with a happier ending then it started with)
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Ideas for a random 1-minute film
3 characters:
Wednesday -fashion designer
Zackery -teacher
Valerie -journalist
3 Locations:
Park
Staffroom
New York office
3 Goals:
Find Inspiration
Make a Friend
Get a Job
3 Obstacles:
Too much noise
All the tables are full up
Lots of other candidates and a stain on their shirt
3 resolutions:
Find a secret ally away from everyone with lots of flowers, become inspired
Someone asks if they want to go out for some lunch with them as they both have nowhere to sit
Someone kind offers there blazer, they manage to make a great impression on the interviewer
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Combining
Wednesday a journalist comes across an interesting story in the park, they find inspiration from locals coming together to clean the play area, however there is too much noise from anti-vaxers protestors to interview people, so she decides to ask some of them out to lunch and discuss there instead.
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Research task -Grayson Perry
Grayson's project is about exploring the different classes and their different taste's within their community's. He mainly uses primary research, which is research discovered by yourself, experiencing it himself. For example he went on a night out with some local girls to really put himself in their shoes when it came to fashion and beauty, this also enabled him to talk to some lads and what they see as pretty in women, as well as what women view as classy and what's tacky. He also went to an old ladies house to really see what peoples taste was when it came to decorating, this inspired the setting for one of his tapestry's. Grayson also manages to do some secondary research in some of the past history of Sunderland about the coal mining and fisher man, as well as the rivalry between them and Magpies (Newcastle) especially in football. This linked to the cage fighting how it could possibly be a replacement from the pride of being a coal miner continuing the family job.
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