This is a primary source - eyewitness account from a young boy (16 year old) who lived through the war period.

Read and select the relevant parts which describes the type of propaganda used by both sides.  You could extract these for your class presentation as ONE of the sources for the class to discuss and answer questions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/34/a4405934.shtml 

I have already spoken to Jia Huan abt the preparation for the class presentation and if you do the work required as I have instructed , you should be more focused on the project theme.

Propaganda - need to be seen from two perspectives: Br and Jap

Also need to see examine different sources of propaganda from different periods with diff purpose: During attack and after Singapore under Jap Rule

So far what u have posted have not addressed these two areas clearly esp the ssecond one

What is Lacking:

1) How will you put together the documentary? What’s your PLAN for the film in terms of the CENTRAL THEME , the mESSAGE u want to convey to the viewers and HOW u are going to ensure that the message gets communicated clearly and convincingly?

If u had done the Protecting Seals documentary in class then maybe you should have learned something abt the director’s vision of what the message of the film is and HOW he is able to persuade the viewer to SEE his POINT of VIEW and FEEL the emotions he want them to feel.

2) How would u USE the research done so far? Actually I find that some research posted is irrelevant - it has NOTHING to do with topic so maybe as a group u need to discuss the central topic again and ask questions to clarify the concept of propaganda

3) Are u going to use PRIMARY sources as example like actual propaganda videos , posters etc and just explain hwo this were used and the message it was supposed to convey? Would this be too FACTUAL and BORING? How would you make the message and the interpretations become more interesting for the veiwers?

4) Have u considered producing your own PROPAGANDA from the JAP and BRitish point of view to show HOW this works in influencing the hearts and minds of people?

5) the inference and drawing conclusions from the various sources of propaganda is still missing - this is a very impt part of your research and u also need to question the bias and reliability of such sources to SHOW how one-sided point of view is communicated in propaganda, who they were targetted at , why they were used, how they worked etc.

6) I also don’t see individual post on reflections on learning so far, like based on trip, course, research done so far.  This reflection is VERY IMPT - SHOW your THINKING and ability to use knowledge and skills from different subjects ( Eng Multiliteracies like visual literacy, photo journalism , video and storyboarding skills and use of language to tell a story, to explain, to persuade , to influence others point of view /emotions etc and History knowledge and SKILLS of inference, reliability etc)

Need to come up with a PLAN and schedule of work to be done with clear instructions and more discussion should be seen here at the blog!

Although you have done your research well, I find that there is very LITTLE discussion and analysis of what these propaganda sources tell you about HOW japanese used propaganda in WW2

You can’t just COPY and PASTE - apply the skills you learned in source-based questions like questioning bias and reliability, inferring the purpose of the propaganda and the message it was intended to convey

You also need to make sure you post the references for your sources of information - like the website, author of website , title of book, published by, year of publication author of book etc

For the Forst siloso trip - the focus will be MORE ON BRITISH propaganda  during the war especially propaganda abt Singapore as invincible and a fortress:

“The popular image of Singapore as an impregnable fortress was due largely to desperate British propaganda in the last years of the 1930s” from Dept of Defence , 2004, Australia

What was this propaganda about? In what way did the British make the people in Singapore believe that they were well-protected and had nothing to fear?  How did they convince people of this?

There are a number of useful resources at the PW website:

- http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/war/war.html

Also something to tell you abt the British Defence Plans - and why they think Singapore was an impregnable fortress

Interview with a historian ( Australian) about the propaganda of Singapore as an impregnable fortress 

( study the British propaganda cartoon from Singapore newspaper, The Malaya Tribune, on Dec 3, 1941.) - shows u how the British tried to convince the people that they have nothing to worry about and that the British will win the war.

- http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/war/headline/wendau.html and http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/war/headline/wbahau.html

( shows you how the Japanese “tried to portray themselves as liberators of the local people. They dished out propaganda articles in the Japanese-controlled newspaper, The Syonan Shimbun.)

Look at these Japanese Propaganda postcards - what was the purpose and message?

-  Did u check out the media resources here - my students created these esp videos - there are those from Fort Siloso

Added a lot more LINKS here, especially for propaganda - PW wiki