Title: Arcade Fire – The wilderness downtown

Link: www.thewildernessdowntown.com – requires HTML5
Media type: Moving images
Age: secondary, tertiary
Language: English
Subtitles: –
Length: 5:01
MIL modules and units: M3U4
Subject tags: Geography, Music, History
Theme tag: Communication, technology and media Culture, inter-culture dialogue Multilinguilism

An interactive music video for a geography lesson? In a world where such programmes as Google Earth allow us to travel virtually with greater ease, this film is an exciting experiment. You fill in where you have grown up, have lived or live now and with the aid of different map services on the internet photos of your neighbourhood can be inserted. You can even write to your old self or interact in other ways with the film. An interesting example of how different subjects such as geography, music and history can be combined.

Download the Wilderness downtown Lesson plan here