Blog and Film as means of Learning

It is a well known fact that we cannot be taught in the same way as our parents or grandparents were. Nowadays, the Technology offers motivating ways to teach and learn that all teachers should take into account. In this sense, we are very glad to have worked with Blog as we think that this is a very helpful and motivating tool to work with. Clearly it is not the same a research made with a Blog and a research made in papers.
As a group, before taking this course and doing this Blog,we agreed that after seeing a movie the first things that we usually said was if we liked the film or not, but without giving any powerful reason and tending to qualify films as good or bad using a weak criteria that was based on our personal tastes, and at the same time we felt that we had neither the words nor the tools to go beyond the entertainment that films provide.
Now that we’ve concluded our blog, we feel that we have those words and tools that we needed to express ourselves and thoughts. Thus, many conclusions come to our minds since this task we’ve been asked to do has involved a lot of deep research.
There is no doubt that this has allowed us to open our minds and find out different points of appreciation about films that we used to ignore in the past.
Consequently, we’ve learned to recognize films that were made many years ago as something really valuable taking into account that our actual cinema would have never developed if films like this had not been done.
By doing this research and studying films, we have been provided new issues of conversation that involve cultures, audiences , historical stages and other appreciations that depend on what kind of audience you belong to. At the end of our blog we feel that we have become part of more educated audience that doesn’t only watch films for pleasure but for cultural interests and purposes as well.

Something that all of us have agreed as a future English teachers is that we will use films in teaching in order not only to improve our students' language skills but also to make students think deeply about all the aspects that cinema involves and that are usually ignored by ordinary audiences; the purpose is always the same: to get a wider point of view about cinema as a cultural phenomenon. Also , Technology will play a fundamental role in our teaching method.

We would like to conclude that Hitchcock is what we really call an author since he shows a different aesthetic perspective and his work is a good example of the influence that Literature has on cinema since the latter is what is commonly known as the seventh art and that needs the contribution of the other art forms ;otherwise, it wouldn’t exist on its own.
Vertigo is a film in which we have gone beyond the surface but the deep content of it, and all what this film has involved that is not only the director's creativity but other essential elements that provide illusion the audience, the illusion that everything is taking place in front of us. That is the magic that Vertigo and only good films have when they are real pieces of art.
Personally, we admire Hitchcock as an artist because of his ability to capture different emotions in visual terms through the lens of the camera.
Finally, we are glad that we've accomplished our task in personal terms because there is a big change in our perspectives on cinema, and the knowledge that we have now is something that we'll never forget and we are sure it will be useful not only in the present but in the future as well.

Claudia Carrión
Macarena Honorato
Andrea Lobo