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Lord of the Rings: New Zealand film
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TKI
Hot Topic for 31 October 2001
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The first film in Kiwi director Peter Jackson's trilogy of J. R. R. Tolkien's
The Lord of the Rings is about to hit the big screen.
It was filmed in many, varied, and often remote parts of New Zealand,
boosting the profile of New Zealand in tourism terms as well as the film
making industry. The multi-million dollar production has been keeping
Wellington and a large part of New Zealand's film industry busy since
1999.
The world premiere is planned for London, and it will screen from mid-December
in New Zealand. The second and third parts of the trilogy are planned
for release in December 2002 and 2003.
Resources on TKI
Teaching
Teaching with movies
America has a website dedicated to teaching with movies (http://teachwithmovies.org)
which includes lesson suggestions for many films, categorised by cultural
heritage, minimum age, titles or keyword, and character development.
New Zealand films
Lord of the Rings
Interviews with Peter Jackson, the casting director, and others involved
with producing the Lord of the Rings, and information on set design and
other aspects of film making are available on the Lord of the Rings site
(www.lordoftherings.net/).
Film Archive
The New Zealand Film Archive (www.nzfa.org.nz/)
has current events news and information for the film community.
Film Commission
The New Zealand Film Commission (www.nzfilm.co.nz/)
website has features on recently released New Zealand films such as Rain
and Snakeskin.
The
Piano
English Online has an article on The Piano which outlines the position
of Māori in the film and in nineteenth century New Zealand society
(http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/piano/dictation_teacher.html).
Len Lye
Film maker and artist Len Lye's life, career, and films feature on this
(www.govettb.org.nz/LenLye/)
website.
Actors
Sam Neill
This website contains information, biography, and filmography on New Zealand
actor Sam Neill. Included are sound bytes, images, and links to his movies.
There are also articles on his interest in the development of Queenstown
(www.ibiblio.org/samneill/).
Film making
Weta
Weta workshop's website has more information about the Wellington-based
production house making the Lord of the Rings trilogy (www.wetafx.co.nz/).
Film
New Zealand
The website of the New Zealand film and television industry has production
news and an outstanding locations gallery (http://www.filmnz.com/home/index.html).
The
Motion Picture Industry
This is an interactive website about making films. It includes information
on film techniques and the different stages in making a film, interviews
with film makers, and a short student film with commentary about the process
(www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=10015&url=10015/).
Thinkquest
- The Motion Picture Industry: Behind-the-Scenes
This website has been created by students as part of the international
ThinkQuest programme, an online community where young people learn, teach,
mentor, discover, research and publish material online. This site contains
many motion picture facts and students are taught about movie making and
the people involved in this process. There are opportunities to view or
make an online movie and write a screenplay. http://library.thinkquest.org/10015/?tqskip=1
Movie production houses
The websites of New Zealand movie production houses give an idea of
what's involved in cinema's technical trades:
Creative New Zealand
The Creative New Zealand site explains the Screen Innovation Production
Fund guidelines - the criteria for obtaining aid to make a New Zealand
film (www.creativenz.govt.nz/).
Film classification
New Zealand
New Zealand's Office of Film and Literature Classification's website
(www.censorship.govt.nz/)
has a useful and clearly written section on the censorship system in New
Zealand.
Curriculum
links on TKI
English in the New Zealand Curriculum (http://www.tki.org.nz/r/language/curriculum/toc_e.php)
is available on TKI.
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