PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST A NATIONAL CURRICULUM RESOURCE FOR ENGLISH AND MUSIC based on the documentary PAUL KELLY – STORIES OF ME www.paulkellythemovie.com.au Copyright 2013 © Shark Island Productions Pty Ltd. You may view, display, print out and copy this material for non-commercial educational purposes provided you retain all acknowledgements associated with this material. This education resource was made possible by the following philanthropic partners: • David and Claire Paradice • Annamila P/L • Antoinette Albert • Suzi and Barry Carp • Cooper Foundation • Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation • Rebecca Gorman and John Sevior • W. and A. Johnson Family Foundation • Nic Liberman • Gretel Packer • Rebel Penfold-Russell • Karen Loblay Philanthropic support facilitated by DOCUMENTARY AUSTRALIA FOUNDATION Principal Philanthropic Partner Resource content written by: Eva Gold, Mel Dixon, Ann Small, Bradley Merrick with Appendix for Victorian teachers by Monika Wagner. Table of Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 5 Overview of the resource ..................................................................................................................... 5 Where to place it .................................................................................................................................. 5 English Curriculum .................................................................................................................................... 5 Music Curriculum ...................................................................................................................................... 6 How to Use it ....................................................................................................................................... 7 How we read and write stories ............................................................................................................. 8 Expectations of documentaries ........................................................................................................... 11 How does a documentary represent the world? .................................................................................... 11 Purpose of a documentary ..................................................................................................................... 13 Representing the artist ............................................................................................................. 14 Representation of a person ................................................................................................................. 15 Biography ............................................................................................................................................ 16 Elements of biography ............................................................................................................................ 16 Childhood, growing up and family .......................................................................................................... 16 Place ....................................................................................................................................................... 17 Memory .................................................................................................................................................. 17 Deciding moments in a life story ............................................................................................................ 18 The portrayal of character ...................................................................................................................... 18 Biography and narrative ......................................................................................................................... 18 Framing the subject ................................................................................................................................ 20 The relationship between story and storyteller ................................................................................... 21 Construction of celebrity ..................................................................................................................... 22 The celebrity documentary ..................................................................................................................... 22 What is celebrity? A theoretical perspective .......................................................................................... 22 Celebrities as signs .................................................................................................................................. 25 Celebrity as narrative arc ........................................................................................................................ 26 An Australian Voice? ................................................................................................................. 27 Paul Kelly’s songs ................................................................................................................................ 28 Songs about Place ................................................................................................................................... 28 Songs about social change ...................................................................................................................... 31 Songs about relationships ....................................................................................................................... 35 Songs about life ...................................................................................................................................... 38 Stories and Paul Kelly (28.00) ................................................................................................................ 40 Creating texts ........................................................................................................................... 41 Writing The songs ............................................................................................................................... 42 Poetry and song lyrics ............................................................................................................................. 42 Patterns and repetition .......................................................................................................................... 43 Theft or creative inspiration? ................................................................................................................. 45 Exploring the influence of other texts .................................................................................................... 47 Making The Documentary ................................................................................................................... 52 Codes of the documentary ..................................................................................................................... 52 Creating a documentary text .................................................................................................................. 59 Analysing and evaluating response ........................................................................................... 60 Personal response to the documentary ............................................................................................... 61 Reading critically ................................................................................................................................. 62 The reviews ......................................................................................................................................... 63 Cultural value ...................................................................................................................................... 64 Exploring attitudes about popular culture .............................................................................................. 64 3 © 2013 Shark Island Productions Pty Ltd Summative Tasks ...................................................................................................................... 66 Appendix .................................................................................................................................. 68 Advice to teachers of the VCE .............................................................................................................. 68 References ................................................................................................................................ 71 4 © 2013 Shark Island Productions Pty Ltd INTRODUCTION OVERVIEW OF THE RESOURCE This resource takes a contemporary text dealing with popular culture and considers how it may be used in a senior English curriculum, a Music curriculum and explores opportunities for cross curriculum study between the two disciplines. Song lyrics and documentaries have been a part of the English curriculum for many years. This resource allows teachers to consider them together through the film Paul Kelly - Stories Of Me to examine with their students how people are represented in texts and how stories are told. The resource has been prepared for teachers and written for students. It broadly deals with four ideas that are common to Australian senior curricula § a representation of an artist and celebrity • a representation