my texts were the movie 'Taking Lives' and a 'Law & Order' episode....pretty crap but meh. taking lives has a female detective and in the law and order episode they went into a lot of psychological stuff so i could babble about all different angles and the development of the genre
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The picture wasn't too bad - I integrated it throughout.
The essay was... I do not know. My thesis was that challenging the responder and the detective to solve crimes, find evidence and "discover" what happened is entertaining an engaging, but ultimately a vehicle for composers to write about their values, social concerns and contextual influences. I tried to integrate the quote but that was no easy feat.
G'luck with the rest of exams, all.
The essay was... I do not know. My thesis was that challenging the responder and the detective to solve crimes, find evidence and "discover" what happened is entertaining an engaging, but ultimately a vehicle for composers to write about their values, social concerns and contextual influences. I tried to integrate the quote but that was no easy feat.
G'luck with the rest of exams, all.
AlleyCat
Singing me and Julio
the woman in the pic was tilda swinton! i love tilda swinton so the words flowed freeley. cant say the same for my essay though, i had a lot of trouble staying on topic. my related texts were (PAST TENSE!!!) the novel of the godfather, sin city-the big fat kill, the sopranos-mr ruggerios neighbourhood and the song got yourself a gun by leonard cohen.
hornbag_tom
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the picture for some reason reminded me of Dr Quinn Medicine Woman...meh
TheHeretic
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Wow, personally I thought it was rather standard.
For the creative, honestly, I had a rabbit gangster story and I managed to incorperate that picture. I find it hard to believe anyone could find it overly challenging to include a woman running from fire/explosion/anything.
As for the essay, meh. You had to relate to the text, which had limited conventions: but it had obvious ones. A "single"murder, a detective, a criminal, the perverted world, etc. I didn't think it was that hard: somewhat limiting to what I had prepared but I managed.
I'm surprised to hear so many people hated it. I am sure you will all do fine, just a little post exam hysteria ;-P
For the creative, honestly, I had a rabbit gangster story and I managed to incorperate that picture. I find it hard to believe anyone could find it overly challenging to include a woman running from fire/explosion/anything.
As for the essay, meh. You had to relate to the text, which had limited conventions: but it had obvious ones. A "single"murder, a detective, a criminal, the perverted world, etc. I didn't think it was that hard: somewhat limiting to what I had prepared but I managed.
I'm surprised to hear so many people hated it. I am sure you will all do fine, just a little post exam hysteria ;-P
Mike Long Le
Mike
i managed to BS my way through creative with 12 pages, and for essay, i did 9...with a 1 line conclusion saying 'all these 4 texts relate to CF', cuz i only had 10 seconds left!! >< How many marks would i lose for the essay?
i used the 'life and crimes of harrry lavender' and 'mystic river'
i used the 'life and crimes of harrry lavender' and 'mystic river'
Asheroth
Paranoid Android
There's a scaling indicator on the site somewhere. EE1 tends to get upscaled quite hard...
And this is totally the wrong thread for that question.
And this is totally the wrong thread for that question.
nwatts
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My creative is sure entertaining, but it'll suck for marks -
Nick says:
i took it as a wedding dress
Nick says:
my detective protagonist was an asian captialist crossdresser
Nick says:
who investigated smuggled tanks from russia, by communist sympathisers
Nick says:
i pulled a pomo, and wrote it backwards, so we can see that the MAN fatale set the whole thing up
Essay wasn't too bad though. Didn't write as much as I'd hoped. Good that it's all over though.
Nick says:
i took it as a wedding dress
Nick says:
my detective protagonist was an asian captialist crossdresser
Nick says:
who investigated smuggled tanks from russia, by communist sympathisers
Nick says:
i pulled a pomo, and wrote it backwards, so we can see that the MAN fatale set the whole thing up
Essay wasn't too bad though. Didn't write as much as I'd hoped. Good that it's all over though.
i used anil's ghost. i loved it.
other texts i used for essay- big sleep, real inspector hound,
mousetrap, hound of the baskervilles and ruth rendells irony of hate.
fit it all in by discussing one element of crime fiction in relation to each of them- eg mystery as a vehicle for other focuses in anil, reflection of society in big sleep. although i did say these applied to all. meh *shrugs*
other texts i used for essay- big sleep, real inspector hound,
mousetrap, hound of the baskervilles and ruth rendells irony of hate.
fit it all in by discussing one element of crime fiction in relation to each of them- eg mystery as a vehicle for other focuses in anil, reflection of society in big sleep. although i did say these applied to all. meh *shrugs*
o.k.
i thought it was pretty good. the story was easy cause i just modified one i alredy had. not too sure about the essay, but my thesis worked out o.k. i think. it was how composers created new meaning though they use the same conventions.
i thought it was pretty good. the story was easy cause i just modified one i alredy had. not too sure about the essay, but my thesis worked out o.k. i think. it was how composers created new meaning though they use the same conventions.
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krazy_katie777
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my orts were 'the man with the watches' - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
and 'where in the world is carmen sandiego?' - the computer game for kiddies! that was fun to write bout hehehe
and 'where in the world is carmen sandiego?' - the computer game for kiddies! that was fun to write bout hehehe
bEAbEA
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i thought that the essay was ok (but just ok) but all of the other past HSCs are going on about the enduring popularity and appeal of cf, and this one had nothing to do with that. what the...?
imaginative was the worst story I've ever written, the crime doesn't get resolved and it just stops mid sentence...Oh well,I'm trying not to think about it but its really hard.
I hope it scales well.
imaginative was the worst story I've ever written, the crime doesn't get resolved and it just stops mid sentence...Oh well,I'm trying not to think about it but its really hard.
I hope it scales well.
rusty_rouge
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Looking through this, a lot of people seem to not have liked it?
I don't get it - I personally LOVED this exam - compare it to the practices from the ETA, and the fact that it was a story and an essay (what more can you want?) and it was BRILLIANT!
Reading time: You could almost hear my internal sigh of relief...How come most of you didn't like the picture or essay? They both fitted my stuff perfectly, and I thought they were pretty open-ended...
I don't get it - I personally LOVED this exam - compare it to the practices from the ETA, and the fact that it was a story and an essay (what more can you want?) and it was BRILLIANT!
Reading time: You could almost hear my internal sigh of relief...How come most of you didn't like the picture or essay? They both fitted my stuff perfectly, and I thought they were pretty open-ended...
missypickles
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i found the essay part pretty hard. I used The Big Sleep, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Real Inspector Hound and Murder on the Orient Express. Basically, I said the detective was the main convention associated with crime fiction. I used Hound to link to the text about irrationality etc. My story wasn't too bad- it was a hardboiled detective searching for a guy, but who then gets trapped by his sister.
NO MORE ENGLISH EVA!!!
NO MORE ENGLISH EVA!!!
Yeah, I agree that the questions were horrible. I just lucked out, the stimulus worked quite well with most of the stuff I'd written in practice, but I couldn't believe how random the whole thing was. What the hell does a woman in a white dress and a flaming ship have to do with crime fiction? Hope you all managed, though I don't know what I would have done if it hadn't worked so well with the stuff I'd prepared.
My orts were 'The Name of the Rose' by Umberto Eco and 'Desperate Housewives'
My orts were 'The Name of the Rose' by Umberto Eco and 'Desperate Housewives'
Logain
aka Will, Skis, Willskis
*kills EE1 paper in the face*
Hated it. I think I applied my knowledge ok, and I tried to answer the question to the best of my ability, but I was a tad thrown. I hardly linked my texts at all. Pretty much an awful exam.
Hated it. I think I applied my knowledge ok, and I tried to answer the question to the best of my ability, but I was a tad thrown. I hardly linked my texts at all. Pretty much an awful exam.