Key Scene Analysis
Tuesday 16th December
FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates
Why?
Aims & Objectives
• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.
• YOU WILL improve your understanding of the text by analyzing 3 key scenes.
• Review the learning.
AO1
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of film as an audio-visual form of creative expression together and
AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding, including some of the common critical approaches that characterise the subject, when exploring and analysing films.
Starter – Re-cap Prior Learning
YOU WILL be asked to fill in the missing word in relation to a key theme and/or issue represented in the text.
HOW does this “set up”(Syd Field) OR ‘signify’ (De Saussure) the darkness of Lil’ Dice’s character the spectator? WHAT does he do?
Using your exercise books, YOU MUST Answer the Questions below:
Starter 1) – Character and Narrative
Starter 2) – Narrative
In your own words, YOU MUST establish HOW the following is represented in ‘City of God’:
Syd Field – Narrative Theory
Act 1) – “The Set Up” = WHAT occurs during the first 10 minutes in terms of establishing the characters, setting and plot? YOU SHOULD select and recall examples from the text.
Act 2) – “The Confrontation” – WHAT confrontations take place in the narrative? WHY? HOW are they resolved?
Act 3) – “The Resolution” – HOW is Rockets situation resolved in the eyes of the spectator?
HOW else does Benny provide an anti-stereotypical representation of the
Gangster figure?
Key Scene Analysis
YOU MUST – using the handout – answer the questions in relation to the key scenes we are going to be watching.
YOU SHOULD complete the Film Language boxes as well to help you gain a better understanding of HOW Gavin Hood uses Film Language to construct the representation of the characters and a “difficult urban environment”.
What have you learnt?
PLENARY – 2 minutes
YOU MUST write down as much as you can about what you have learnt in today’s lesson.
Extension – YOU COULD refer to specific examples from the text.
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