The aim of this paper is to examine which attitudes and experiences teachers have around the wide text concept, which is found in the course plan for the Swedish subject, and to find out which function films have in their teaching. The starting point of the paper?s theoretical part is the Swedish subject?s course plans and current research concerning the wide text concept and film in teaching. In order to achieve the formulated aim, qualitative interviews have been performed with three Swedish teachers active in the later years of compulsory-school.The result shows that there are divided opinions of the actual meaning of the concept. However the three teachers agree that film has something to enrich the teaching of the Swedish language and they are for most part positive to using film in their teaching.

The primary intention of this paper was to visually compare film trailers without considering semantic information, through use of a self-developed Matlab program, resembling that of human perception. Circa 150 people participated in an online survey where they were shown two film trailers and asked to rate their visual similarities. The result from the program was weighted against the survey results in such a way that the weights corresponded to a 75% accuracy between the program?s and the participant?s (for participants with prior experience in the field of photography and/or film) comparisons.How accurate can we compare still images from film trailers, and find similar trailers for the human viewer, by analyzing saturation, color tone, contrast and lightness with a self-developed Matlab program..

Den här uppsatsen handlar om skapandet av animerad 3D-film från idé till färdigt resultat. Även att på uppdrag av en extern beställare av filmen försöka tillgodose dennes önskemål och krav på bästa sätt. Med hjälp av en litteraturstudie och egna kunskaper diskuteras och beskrivs process och genomförande av animering och karaktärsdesign för att slutligen få fram en animerad film som är utformad enligt beställarens önskan..

The purpose of this master's thesis is to examine how the public library communicates with young users through the library web sites. Four Swedish public library web pages for children are analysed. In the analysis the web pages are treated as a combination of semiotic resources that, communicating as a whole, hold a meaning potential. In order to identify the underlying meaning of the whole I have applied the tools of Kress' & van Leeuwen's visual social semiotics to the chosen web pages.The information value, the framing and the salience of each composition is examined and analysed, as is the size of frame, the perspective and the vertical angle of a selection of images from each web page. The results of the semiotic analysis are then discussed and related to Jochumsen et al:s four space-model and the notion of ?child perspective? and ?empowerment?.The results show that the child perspective is strongest on the web pages that represent the performative space as dominating and that empowerment is mainly represented as ?doing?, ?participating? and the ?free choice?.

Vårt problemområde berör TV/filmens inflytande på barn. Anledningen till vårt val av problemområde beror på att både vuxna och barn ägnar mycket tid av sin vardag åt TV/film. I vår framtida roll som lärare är det av stor vikt att vi ser till barns upplevelser och erfarenheter. Vuxna är viktiga för att hjälpa barn att sortera, ifrågasätta och reflektera kring saker som har hänt. Vårt syfte med undersökningen är att förstå hur TV/film inspirerar barn. Vår huvudfråga är; På vilket sätt kan vi se att TV/film är en inspirationskälla för barn? Hur yttrar det sig? Underfrågor till denna är; På vilket sätt kan vi se att de inspireras av TV/film i leken?, Hur yttrar sig barnens bearbetning av det de sett på TV/film, i leken?, Hur bemöts de barn som inte har sett samma TV/film som de andra barnen i gruppen? För att få fram resultat i studien har vi använt oss av metodtriangulering.

Based on 30 years of work experience in TV and film production, I have made a phenomenological analysis of my perception of meaning in work - how it arises and how it is undermined. The story starts in my experience of early professional film making in the 1980's and describes how a change to work in TV production required the development of a new professional identity. The text also illustrates how as a female director I have managed my role in a male dominated and structured work environment. Being defined as an exception from the male norm has pushed me towards femininist reflection and the need to redefine my own work role - the generally accepted view having felt uncomfortable. An analysis of structural change in TV and film production shows how market pressures and ways of thought have increasingly invaded cultural endeavour. Professional spheres of influence are weakened, while developments in the media are characterised by a commercialism which encroaches more and more upon artistic, spiritual and moral values. This attitude, where quality is in retreat, has transformedprogramme makers from creative originators into becoming suppliers of raw material in a factory- like process geared to produce great volume at low cost.The aim of this essay is to show how changes in society and in TV and film making have affected my perception of my work.

The movie industry in Sweden is seen as a tight holding cluster where the different entities are being highly dependent on each other. There are also many different barriers to get a movie fully financed, and with the people in charged using arguments such as ?quality?, which is not objective but in fact subjective. The aim of this essay is to investigate how the leadership of five female film producers is being constituted in the film industry, an industry which is both close to the pool art and the pool commerce at the same time at it is male dominant. We have found that female film producers tend to use the strategy to adapt to the surroundings ?shouts? and ?demands?, at the same time as they adapt to their environment by becoming/not becoming entrepreneurs..

The purpose of this thesis was to examine if users of digital music games may acquire skills from the games that may be of use in learning to play a real instrument, that is a non-digitally simulated instrument like an acoustic piano. We have used Gee?s theory regarding a possible interconnection between different semiotic domains, and how this connection may enable a transfer of skills between related domains. In this thesis we examine possible skill transfer between the domains ?digital games? and ?non-digital instruments?. To examine our question formulation we chose to conduct a pilot study from which we collected both quantitative and qualitative data.

En av de största utmaningarna som dagens språkpedagoger står inför är hur de bäst kan stimulera och motivera till lärande. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka huruvida användandet av film i spanskundervisningen kan fungera som motivationsskapare för inlärning. Den teoretiska delen av studien består av följande delar; kultur i språkundervisningen, Knud Illeris och hans lärandeteorier, lärandeteorier och språk och avslutningsvis aktuell forskning om film i språkklassrummet. Det empiriska materialet utgörs av kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra spansklärare och analyserar hur de ser på film som didaktiskt verktyg i spanskundervisningen. Undersökningens resultat visar hur medvetna lärarna är om vikten av en undervisning som är stimulerande och motiverande och att de ser film som en mycket användbar och flexibel metod för att skapa intresse och utveckla samtliga språkliga förmågor hos eleverna..

The purpose of this thesis was to examine if users of digital music games may acquire skills from the games that may be of use in learning to play a real instrument, that is a non-digitally simulated instrument like an acoustic piano. We have used Gee?s theory regarding a possible interconnection between different semiotic domains, and how this connection may enable a transfer of skills between related domains. In this thesis we examine possible skill transfer between the domains ?digital games? and ?non-digital instruments?. To examine our question formulation we chose to conduct a pilot study from which we collected both quantitative and qualitative data.

This essay is about film music and how people react in a study where the music and picture comes from two different genres that both has unique conventions, of how the ?standard? music ought to be composed. The purpose of this essay is mainly to try and get an understanding of film music?s importance in the movies dramatic structure, and how people react when the conventions of music is broken and two genres are combined into one.The questions that are to be answered in this essay are: *how could music as a tool change the character of a film? *How does the participants, of this inquire, experience the film depending on what music they hear? *And what is it that the participants think that the music brings to the movies narration?The method of this survey is based on a number of participants that have responded on questions of how they experienced the movie, both with music and without. This study has shown that when music and picture, which comes from different genres, interact with each other it tends to create comical features and a sense of that the music has an advantage in terms of the genre that people feel that the film has..

Syftet med den ha?r studien a?r att underso?ka huruvida ljud och musik pa?verkar det narrativa bera?ttandet i film. Som utga?ngspunkt har jag valt att go?ra en adaptionsanalys av Trainspotting (Welsh, 1993) samt (Boyle, 1996) fo?r att pa? sa? sa?tt kunna se skillnader och likheter i fo?rekomsten av ljud och musik i ba?de film och bok.Studien visade att ba?de ljud och musik har spelat en betydande roll fo?r upplevelsen av filmen. Genom att anva?nda sig av ljud och musik pa? ett sa?tt som skiljer sig fra?n boken har filmen lyckats att portra?ttera och skildra den historia som boken bera?ttar i ett helt annat medium. .

Detta är vårt C-arbete där vi valde att göra ett sällskapsspel av vår frågeställning. Spelet går ut på att producera en film, den spelare som producerar den bästa filmen vinner Oscar för bästa film och även spelet. När man spelar spelet så lär man sig hur en filmproduktion går till och vilka komponenter som är extra viktiga när det gäller bedömningen för vinnaren av Oscarstatyetten för bästa film..

The aim of this thesis is to examine possibilities concerning subject access to fiction film, i.e. appropriate ways to describe fiction film for subject retrieval. Problems regarding subject indexing in general, and subject indexing of fiction film in particular, are identified, as well as the uniqueness of fiction film and film genres. Four types of subject aspects are discussed: form and genre, fictitious characters, setting, and general topics. Several guidelines, form- and genre lists, and subject headings lists are examined and treated as potential indexing tools.

Det här examensarbetet undersöker hur fyra svensklärare verksamma inom grundskolan och gymnasiet använder film som didaktiskt verktyg i syfte att normproblematisera och utveckla elevers språk. Metoden som används är semistrukturerad intervju. Resultatet visar att svensklärarna låter sina elever diskutera och reflektera kring vad filmer förmedlar genom både muntliga och skriftliga uppgifter samt övningar av olika slag. De är av åsikten att arbete med film är språkutvecklande och att man kan diskutera många olika aspekter utifrån film. Slutsatsen vi drar är att svensklärare med hjälp av film kan skapa meningsfulla sammanhang som gynnar elevernas utveckling vad gäller språk och medvetenhet kring normer..