The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan – Short Movie
LI: To view Media as a Reader
Hello 5/6J,
Mrs Joyce is in Melbourne today at her Bastow Leadership Course. This week we are looking at Media and how our thinking changes as we view the media as a reader.
I would like you to watch the short film by Shaun Tan – The Lost Thing. We will be using this film all week. Today I would like you to view the film, have your sticky notes ready to take some notes as you watch. I would like you to hone in on the character of ‘The Lost Thing’.
You will have an A3 Graphic Organiser I would like you to complete for me. Tomorrow when I return, we will use the information you record as the centre of Tuesdays crafting session. Work Hard and do not take any short cuts. I am looking for deep thinking and would like to see the character traits answers posted as a comment that I will check on in my lunch break.
Have a great day and look after Mrs Lovell and Mr Allen. See you all Tuesday and remember I have checked blog comments and rated them out of 6 and I would hope everyone has completed their Maths Homework for me to mark.
From
Mrs Joyce
Lonely: Because the lost thing had no where to go, and no one cared for the lost thing.
Sad: Because the lost thing had no friends, or even a home.
Happy: Because he finally got a friend, and got somewhere to live.
Character Traits:The Lost Thing
Alienated: Because he was sitting on the beach alone and he wasn’t moving.
Respectful: Because he acted like he was best friends with the man and he liked playing and being with the man.
Nervous: because when the spotlight hit him he backed away quick.
1.Interesting
2.lonely
3.Happy
I think this because the thing had something about his character that wasn’t norml!
Dumb: Didn’t know where to go and what to do
Sad: He just sat there like a hobo and was sad
Grumpy: Didn’t want to come out at first
Lonley:The lost thing was Lonley because nobody cared about him and nobody knew he was there the boy found the lost thing because he wasn’t bissey doing other self like everyone ales.
Sad:The lost thing was sad because nobody would talk to him or not even notice him all he want was a friend.
Friendly: the lost thing is friendly because he didn’t attack the scientist that found him. The lost thing is also friendly because he didn’t want to leave the scientist that wanted him to stay safe.
Fun:the lost thing is fun because he played a game of ball and the scientist said he injoyed playing with this lost thing. He was also fun because you could tell they both were having fun.
Confused: the lost thing is confused because he didn’t know that someone will take it home. The lost thing is also confused because he is probably wondering why they are looking for a sign
Playful The lost thing was playing catch with the person on the beach.
Hungry. The lost thing got the person to give him some delicious food.
Marvellous.He did not attack the person who found him on the beach.
Lonely the lost thing was a very lonely thing that sat in the breeze while he watched things walk by him. He didn’t really know what to do because the lost thing had know friends or know family to care about or to visit. The lost thing feels really lonely because he has know where to go or nothing to do.
Friendly The lost thing was a very friendly lost thing because he treated people how they would like to be treated and he was playing with the little boy which made the little boy feel like someone cares about him and he now has a amazing friend.
Lost The lost thing was a very lost thing because he didn’t have many friends so he didn’t know where to go or what to do, or even where he fited in so he really was lost.
Lonely: I think that the thing is lonely because if you watch the movie you can
See that the thing is laying in the sand on the beach just looking at people walk
Pass him that’s why I think his lonely.
Lost: I think he is lost because the title stays the lost thing if he wasn’t lost
The title wounding be call the lost thing and in the movie he looks lost because he does not know where he is going and the boy helps him.
Friendly: I think that thing is friendly because he doesn’t hurt anybody our he is as friendly as a fly because he just walks pass everything with out hurting them he just keeps on
Walk and if he was not friendly he would hurt everybody he walks pass in the streets.
Interesting: because he has Lot of arms he has a bells for hands and he is just a very unusual creature to be friends with because he has this sort of thing to it!
Excluded: because he doesn’t fit in with any other person in the town and he looks like a spacey sort of creature and he doesn’t think that anyone will want to be his mate!
Spectacular:because he found the boy and the boy liked him and didn’t think anything bad about him and wanted to actually be his friend he wasn’t just using him!
Interesting: he has Lot of arms he has a bells for hands and he is just a very unusual creature to be friends with because he has this sort of thing to it!
Excluded: he doesn’t fit in with any other person in the town and he looks like a spacey sort of creature and he doesn’t think that anyone will want to be his mate!
Spectacular he found the boy and the boy liked him and didn’t think anything bad about him and wanted to actually be his friend he wasn’t just using him.
Worried:
Delighted:
Agreeable:
Worried:The lost thing was worried because it had no afther lost things to play with he spent all the time with the boy.
Delighted:The lost thing was delighted because at the end the lost thing seen some lost things to play with.
Agreeable:The lost thing was nice to the boy because the lost thing did not hurt the boy.
The Lost Thing
Sociable: The lost thing was sociable in a way that no one would talk to it when it was in the middle of the beach. So that makes me think what if that were to be me to feel like I’m invisible and knowing that it was like I never existed? I’d feel like there’s no point in being there because I didn’t think anyone would like me. Then when the man came to say ” hi,” the thing looked so surprised that finally someone talked to it.
Secluded/ Solitary: The lost thing was secluded or solitary because really no one owned it so it had no friends except the man who’s helping it. So really it’s like it’s homeless because maybe it was invented but not wanted. But maybe it want secluded or solitary because it wouldn’t communicate in any way to anyone, and it was in its shell so it was like it wanted to be left alone or maybe because no one could be bothered to talk to it.
Lonely: I think that the lost thing felt lonely because it didn’t know anyone and nobody knew it and they didn’t want to know it, it would of felt left out as well because of this. It felt lonely because there was no one of its kind, because its not like you see a big metal thing sitting at the beach every day. Nobody bothered to talk to it or even look at it, so it would of felt left out or like a loner. It was lonely when it was on the beach by itself, even though it is a big red metal thing with bells hanging off his hand things, and nobody even noticed its presents. It is completely different to everyone so on one would have talked to it just because it was different and they didn’t want to waste their time on it. It looked kind of lonely and lost all through the movie just about but I didn’t notice that in the book, even though the man was by his side all through the movie he look empty with nobody who really understands it, right up until the end. It would of felt lonely because it may of felt left out because every one made it feel left out and different because no body helped it because of who it was or they didn’t bother. This thing probably never got understood and now it’s got nobody and now it is lonely. I feel sorry for it because no one makes it feel welcome, but the man made that all change and showed that he actually cares.
Hello 56j,
Here are the words that disciple the lost thing.
CURIOUS: The lost thing is curious because in the storey/movie the man that had the lost thing was watching a commercial saying ” Are you tired of having something that you think doesn’t belong anywhere? Then come to get rid of the thing that just doesn’t belong. DON’T PANIC!! Then come to the federal department of odds and ends”. So the man went into town and deliver the lost thing. When they left the lost thing was in front looking everywhere feeling things and reading signs that lead to the federal department of odds and ends. When he was feeling, reading and standing in front of the man that was when I got the idea of the lost thing being curious because to me he looked like he had never seen things like that.
BUBBLY: The lost thing was bubbly, I say that because the lost thing always in the story seemed playful (bubbly). The lost thing was playing with the man that kept him in the book. At the beach they created a sandcastle, studied the mans bottle tops and the lost thing actually enjoyed it!! When he enjoyed it and was playing with the man that’s when I started to seance that the lost thing is bubbly. Ps bubbly means always happy, playful, friendly, interactive and more.
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Shy: the lost thing was in the building where the man had to fill the forms in to send the lost thing home. The man said “I’ve got a lost thing”. So he got thousands of forms to fill out but he didn’t fill them out. The light shone on the lost thing and suddenly the lost thing back away quickly while the light shone on the lost thing. The man was surprised. When the lost thing backed away from the light that’s when the lost thing was shy.
Character Traits:
CARING: In my opinion I think that this thing was very caring and loving because he could do so many things a normal person can do but people are just not bothered to do it! And this thing has been so caring and beloved this could change the boys life! I chose the word caring for the lost thing because as soon as I saw that thing on sitting on the sand all alone on the beach I new that this lost thing was trying to be beloved and friendly so he could get friends so the lost thing wouldn’t fell lost any more! In my opinion that is ver caring!
UNUSUAL: I think that his thing is very or should I say extremely unusual because I’m my opinion if I were walking down a normal plain street and saw something exactly like the lost thing that would of been the weirdest experience of my life! But in a good way thought! There is something different when I think about unusual things because there re times when you get see something awkward but you know that there is something wrong about it! That’s when you know that you are friends with someone in my opinion!
LONELY:
I think that this thing is absolutely 100% lonely because when I watched the film I could tell. That the thing had something about it that really bothered me! When the boy first found the thing the thing looked like he wanted someone to play with him because he gave the boy the beach ball! That straight away told me that he was lonely and he waged someone to at least talk to him or have fun with him!
Character Traits
Scared: I think that the lost thing was scared because when the bright light was shinned on him he jumped back like the light was going to hurt it or do something to it. If I was the lost thing I would of jumped back as well because if you came to some place that you have no idea about you would be scared about everything.
Lonely: The lost thing was lonely because at the beach his body language that he displayed looked like he was shy but he was also looking lonely because it was in its own little corner all by itself alone looking sad. I also think he was alone because it doesn’t know where it is and doesn’t know anybody that he can talk to.
Unintelligent: He was only waiting for someone to find and follow but instead of finding his way back home, he only just sat down at the beach like a hobo and didn’t feed himself or clean himself and just expected someone else to do it for him.
Miserable: He just sat down at the beach, only dinging his bell’s very lightly in a big unhappy look as his arms and legs crashed to the ground and no one cared for him, or noticed him.
Irritating: No one probably cared for him because he was a big fat piece of junk on the beach that smelled like rotten fish and polluted the air and seas as he kept on ringing his bells that really annoyed people!