The Meaning of Da’wah in Rich Short Films Without Wealth

Da'wah is an activity to spread knowledge of Islam to all corners of the world. With the development of the times, it becomes a challenge for the da'i so that their da'wah can be enjoyed and disseminated more widely. In this digital era, visual media is the most effective tool used to spread da'wah. One of the media that is currently popular is YouTube. The ease of YouTube's popularity needs to be put to good use, such as creating and displaying educational content with Islamic elements, such as films of the religious genre. The researcher analyzed the da'wah contained in rich short films without religious genre treasures on the YouTube channel of Muslim filmmakers to find the meaning of denotation, connotation and myth in the film. The research method used is descriptive qualitative with Roland Barthes' semiotic approach. The type of research used is field research, researchers observe the object directly. The results of this study are that the meaning of denotation in this study is about the description of human life in facing various trials of life in family, neighbors and friends. The meaning of the connotations in the short film Kaya without treasure is that sincerity, gratitude and patience will make us calmer and accept what is. The meaning of the myth in the short film rich without wealth is that alms will make us more grateful for what Allah SWT has given us. The message of moral da'wah is more dominant in this film.

Tapaustutkimus seitsemäsluokkalaisten musiikin oppitunneilla tekemien lyhytelokuvien audiovisuaalisista kerronnan keinoista monilukutaidon näkökulmasta

Nuorten elämään liittyy vahvasti audiovisuaalinen media eri muodoissa. Omien teosten tekeminen ja niiden jakaminen ovat helpottuneet digitalisaation ja sosiaalisen median myötä, mutta millaisia audiovisuaalisen kerronnan keinoja nykypäivän yläkoululaisilla on käytössään? Perusopetuksen opetussuunnitelman perusteissa monilukutaito määritellään eri muodoissa olevien viestien tuottamisen, tulkitsemisen ja kriittisen arvioinnin taidoksi.Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelemme, millaisia audiovisuaalisia kerronnan keinoja seitsemäsluokkalaiset käyttävät koulun musiikin tunneilla tehdyissä lyhytelokuvissa, ja pohdimme, miten lyhytelokuvien tekeminen voidaan nähdä osana monilukutaidon tukemista. Yleisesti ottaen oppilailla on kykyjä käyttää erilaisia kerronnan keinoja, joskin oppilaiden itse tekemistä lyhytelokuvista osa sisältää paljon erilaisia audiovisuaalisen kerronnan keinoja, kun taas osassa keinovalikoima on suppea kaikilla kerronnan osa-alueilla.Monilukutaidon pedagogiikan mukaan monilukutaidon prosessissa edetään omien kokemusten jakamisen, teoretisoinnin ja ohjauksen kautta kohti uusintavaa käytäntöä. Omien kokemusten ja merkitysten jakaminen yhteisöllisesti ja toisaalta niiden asettaminen laajempaan viitekehykseen mahdollistavat sen, että oppilaat voivat kukin kehittyä omista lähtökohdistaan. Lyhytelokuvien tekemisen ja audiovisuaalisten kerronnan keinojen erittelemisen kautta voidaan tarjota oppilaille tilaisuus kehittyä audiovisuaalisen kerronnan keinojen käyttämisessä, ymmärtämisessä ja niiden kriittisessä arvioinnissa.Avainsanat: monilukutaito, audiovisuaalinen viestintä, peruskoulu, musiikkikasvatus, mediakasvatus, elokuvakasvatusCase study on audiovisual storytelling of 7th grade students’ short films made during music lessonsDigitalization and social media have increased and made it easier to make and share one’s own audiovisual products, but what exactly do we know about young people’s audiovisual storytelling? In the Finnish National Core Curriculum, multiliteracy is defined as an ability to produce, interpret, and critically evaluate texts in various forms.The purpose of this article is to explore what modes and forms of audiovisual storytelling the 7th graders use in their self-made digital short films and how the making of short movies can be seen as a way of promoting students’ multiliteracies. The students have the capacity for audiovisual storytelling although storytelling varies a lot between self-made short films. Some of them include various forms of storytelling while the storytelling is limited in others.According to the pedagogy of multiliteracies, learning is a process in which learners proceed from experience to conceptualization, analysis, and to finally applying new practices. Students proceed from their own standpoints while they share their own experiences in collaborative making processes and learn to analyze and conceptualize their works. By making short films and conceptualizing audiovisual storytelling students can be promoted in multiliteracies.Keywords: multiliteracies, audiovisual storytelling, comprehensive school, secondary school, music education, media education, film education

Challenging the Roma Structural Discrimination: Deterritorialization Practices in Romanian Cinema

This paper examines the cinematographic reworking of memory spaces associated with power relations and structural injustice. The way in which space is represented and used as a medium that reflects power relations allows to question the space itself in cultural productions from Central-Eastern Europe when associated with Romani people (space and power relations, memory of slavery and discrimination, space and freedom, territoriality, space and its inhabitants, non-belonging, segregation, etc.). The paper focuses on motion pictures produced in the last decade in Romania, a prolific period due to the increasing interest for memory activism and to the multiplication of the cultural exploration of challenging topics. It aims to identify narrative, visual, and aesthetic expressions used as deterritorialization practices to stimulate relational remembrance and engagement with ongoing social inequality and structural injustice. Two short films – Alina Șerban’ s Bilet de iertare (Letter of forgiveness) and Adrian Silișteanu’s Scris/Nescris (Written/Unwritten) – and a western type film – Radu Jude’s Aferim!, winner of the Silver Bear for Best director at Berlinale in 2015, are analysed here.

Der Ausdruck von Aktionen im Deutschen und Italienischen

The article considers contrastive linguistics as a discipline that interacts closely with its intralinguistic and applied neighbouring disciplines. Within this framework, the online ontology IMAGACT presents an instrument that allows to contrast how languages lexicalize concrete actions (movements, modification of objects, setting relations among objects, etc.) in their verbs. German and Italian, the language pair considered here, differ typologically in their lexicalization strategies, which leads to difficulties in L2 acquisition, translation and lexicography. The article shows how the corpus-based IMAGACT database, which presents a set of 1010 actions in short films and links them to the appropriate verbs in 15 languages, provides help in these fields, and how it can at the same time empirically support contrastive-typological findings

Increasing Poetry Writing Skills Through Media Collection Of Pandemi Themes Of Short Film On Students Class 1 State 1 Sma Krian Sidoarjo

ABSTRACT This study aimed to improve students’ ability in writing poetry through the medium of short film collection with a pandemic theme. The subjects of this study were the First grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Krian. The results showed that the poetry writing skills of the First grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Krian, Sidoarjo district, had increased. In preliminary study, it was identified that the students' poetry writing skills reached a complete level of 34.61% and an incomplete level of 65.38%. Then, after conducting two cycles, the first cycle reached the level of completion 42. 30% and the level of incompleteness 57.69%. Meanwhile, the second cycle indicated 76.92% level of completion and 23.07% level of incomplete. In conclusion, learning to write poetry through a collection of short films with the theme of pandemic is helpful for students of language class in SMAN 1 Krian Sidoarjo. It could increase their ability in writing poetry. Thus, the researcher suggest the teacher to choose varied learning media in order to enhance their students’poetry writing skill.

Harmony, associativity, and metaphor in the film scores of Alexandre Desplat

<p>The objective of this doctoral study is to develop and demonstrate a theoretical framework to guide both the analysis and composition of twenty-first-century film music. The compositional portfolio submitted as part of this thesis includes scores for nine short films and for a feature-length docudrama. The thesis is based on analysis of twenty feature film scores by Alexandre Desplat (b. 1961), with particular attention to two: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2009) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Studying one composer’s output enables the observation of a compositional voice articulated across multiple film genres. Desplat’s work has proven a relevant and worthy subject, because the films he has scored exemplify a wide variety of styles and approaches, including skilful integration of past styles and current trends. The theoretical framework I use to discuss both Desplat’s film music and my own, draws together selected concepts from semiotics, metaphor theory, narratology, and harmonic analysis, especially transformational theory. I use the framework to explore how musical objects – such as modes, chords, and their transformations through time – might act as symbols, icons, or metaphors for one or more elements of the narrative – such as a setting, character, characters’ emotions, events, or the attitude of the cinematic narrator. It is argued that this combination of ideas provides a suitable framework – useful in both composition and analysis – for understanding how music might expressively contribute to filmic narratives. It is argued that Neo-Riemannian triadic transformations – in Desplat’s work and mine, at least – are often most usefully considered in relation to the scales and modes that they articulate, transform, and/or subvert. This is a point of difference from other recent transformational analysis of film music. Although my analyses focus primarily on pitchbased features, I also consider how these elements accrue meaning in their interactions with other musical features, such as tempo and orchestration.</p>

Excitement lies elsewhere: Teenage film-makers and popular culture

When teenagers are given access to digital media equipment, their teachers and film club leaders may hope that they will take the opportunity to make films of personal significance. Instead, young people often choose to engage in a parodic dialogue with popular culture, in a process which feels more familiar and/or comfortable to them, providing as it does a creative space unburdened by expectations of sincere expression. From a survey of numerous short films made in Scotland, it is evident that the use of pastiche and parody facilitates both progressive and reactionary perspectives, often within the same film. Exploring a series of detailed case studies of films made by young people in Scotland in the early 2000s, this article argues that parody can provide for young people an aesthetic distance from personal expression, which, ironically, is unexpectedly revealing of generalised teenage sociocultural attitudes.

Harmony, associativity, and metaphor in the film scores of Alexandre Desplat

<p>The objective of this doctoral study is to develop and demonstrate a theoretical framework to guide both the analysis and composition of twenty-first-century film music. The compositional portfolio submitted as part of this thesis includes scores for nine short films and for a feature-length docudrama. The thesis is based on analysis of twenty feature film scores by Alexandre Desplat (b. 1961), with particular attention to two: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2009) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Studying one composer’s output enables the observation of a compositional voice articulated across multiple film genres. Desplat’s work has proven a relevant and worthy subject, because the films he has scored exemplify a wide variety of styles and approaches, including skilful integration of past styles and current trends. The theoretical framework I use to discuss both Desplat’s film music and my own, draws together selected concepts from semiotics, metaphor theory, narratology, and harmonic analysis, especially transformational theory. I use the framework to explore how musical objects – such as modes, chords, and their transformations through time – might act as symbols, icons, or metaphors for one or more elements of the narrative – such as a setting, character, characters’ emotions, events, or the attitude of the cinematic narrator. It is argued that this combination of ideas provides a suitable framework – useful in both composition and analysis – for understanding how music might expressively contribute to filmic narratives. It is argued that Neo-Riemannian triadic transformations – in Desplat’s work and mine, at least – are often most usefully considered in relation to the scales and modes that they articulate, transform, and/or subvert. This is a point of difference from other recent transformational analysis of film music. Although my analyses focus primarily on pitchbased features, I also consider how these elements accrue meaning in their interactions with other musical features, such as tempo and orchestration.</p>

CRITICIZING THE BUGIS ISLAMIC SCRIPT, PAU-PAU RIKADONNA I DARAMATASIA FROM SIRIQ NA PESSÉ PERSPECTIVE

Pau-Pau Rikadonna I Daramatasia (PRID) is a very popular story and has an important position in the lives of Bugis people in South Sulawesi as well as in other region. In the script form, the story has three versions: Bone, Barru, and Pangkep. Not only being written in script form, the story is also staged in short films, picture stories, dances, and others. This article aims to understand the meaning for the Bugis' collective awareness of PRID stories. To reveal the meaning, Bone version of PRID will be used with considering the whole story. Bone's PRID is also unique because it has some additions of episodes at the beginning and at the end of the story that become the focus of this article analysis. In understanding the meaning contained in the PRID, Levi Strauss's theory of structuralism will be used by building binary opposition to the depth structure of the text. Based on the analysis conducted, the addition of episodes contained in the PRID version of Bone is closely related to the cultural value of siriq na pesse (honor and solidarity) which is opposing sharia values. This can be interpreted as an effort by the Bugis to reconcile the two values so that PRID is well thanked and appreciated until now as can be seen in Youtube contents.