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Preamble
The 4 photo-montage sequences
give you practice in taking notes and then converting your
notes into points for including in an essay.
Reading the Images The first short sequence, La Foule uses lines from Baudelaire's poetry as a sub-text to a stroll through a busy flea-market in the north of Paris in 2007. Exercise to Modify an Answer into an Essay Point - Make notes in the text area box to the right on how Baudelaire's nineteenth-century text can still provide a valid reading of twenty-first century Paris. foule.wmv The Crowd - La Foule (Baudelaire) This group of three montage sequences are for a further excercise. The first two, Parcours and Nuit are walks through Paris mainly on the Right Bank of the city. They attempt to show the architecture and the experience of pedestrian mobility, even in the dark. When you have viewed the first two a few times please turn to the third sequence of Le Corbusier's model for new family buildings Villa. Then, please try the exercise. parcours.wmv A walk south from Richelieu library to Les Halles métro. nuit.wmv A night-time walk north from Boule' Miche'. Exercise - How would these early twentieth-century villas fit into twenty-first century Parisian city centre architecture and urban experience? villa.wmv A study of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye in Poissy.
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This area will give you suggestions to the question posed during the Baudelaire exercise. First type in your own answer in the text area box below. Question: What aspects of Baudelaire's nineteenth-century text still provide a valid reading of twenty-first century Paris?
Remember to take a copy of your notes from the box
before you leave this page.
The re-painted version of the web-page
is not stored permanently on your hard drive nor on a server anywhere.
Ctrl A (Select All) Ctrl C (copy to clipboard) Ctrl V (paste into new document or email message) Final Activity Exercise This exercise may have been set as a practical activity and so the Brief and Marking Scheme are provided here for you to download and re-use. The documents use WORD and EXCEL (r) Microsoft. 
brief.doc
scheme.xls
User Guidelines for Viewing Media
These 4 photo-montage sequences may be dowloaded as wmv
files for re-use (please use right mouse button) or played directly
with a single click. You will need Windows Media Player. There is a version for Apple Mac, too, from: |
