23 degrees 5 minutes
In the opening scene we see an explorer in the frozen arctic. He is looking for someone and in the first minute it is left up to us to decide who it is. The film then wanders back in time as the narrator/explorer recalls his days at University in Ireland where he studied under Professor Orit. (The man who is missing in the opening scenes.)
It brings us back to the present day and the predicament of the explorer. Who will he meet? Will he find the professor every again?
It brings us back to the present day and the predicament of the explorer. Who will he meet? Will he find the professor every again?
Teaching ideas
- Rewrite the monologue recounting his days in he arctic.
- Describe the opening setting using similes, metaphor and personification.
- Use of rhetorical questions for effect e.g. Would I find him here in the icy wasteland.
- Study the film and analyse the scene changes, the change in time and the differences between the different settings.
- Rewrite the film as journal entries recounting the important events of the film.
- Write a newspaper report about the diappearance of the professor.
- Create a ships log for the voyage.
- Use maps to see where the voyage would take him.
- Use show not tell to describe features and feelings in the Arctic.
- Rewrite the ending, maybe the explorer goes with the 'professor' and he shows him his workshop etc.
- Create a 'Captain's Log' for his voyage, listing inventory, places visited on his way and then chronicle his way across the icy wastes.
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