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.