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    Tools for Critical Thinking
          Source: ©2002 Center for Media Literacy. www.medialit.org

Use these tools when deconstructing ALL media.
This handout is useful when watching films in the classroom.

Film citation: ___________________________________________________________

For example:
Citizen Kane. Dir. Orson Welles. Perfs. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton. Film. RKO Radio Pictures, 1941.
Or
Lehman, E. (Producer), & Nichols, M. (Director). (1966). Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? [Motion  picture]. Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers. 

Five key questions of media literacy

1.	Who created this message (film)?

2.	What techniques are used to attract (and keep) my attention?

3.	How might other people understand this message (film) differently from me?

4.	What lifestyles, values, and points of view are represented or omitted from this message (film)?

5.	Why was this message sent?

Critical Thinking Film Response – 5 Key Questions

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Five Core Concepts of Media Literacy
Source: ©2002 Center for Media Literacy. www.medialit.org

1. All media messages are constructed.

2. Media messages are constructed using a creative language with its own rules.

3. Different people experience the same media message differently.

4. Media have embedded values and points of view.

5. Media messages are constructed to gain profit and/or power.