L8 locations
- 1. Title: Tsotsi – Location and Social Representation Analysis Monday 1st December 2014 FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates Section A Specialist Study 1: Urban Stories – Power, Poverty and Conflict
- 2. Why? Aims & Objectives • YOU WILL re-cap prior learning. • YOU WILL analyse the representation of the location and social issues from the principle text Tsotsi. • 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.
- 3. Starter 1) – Re-cap Prior Learning You need to complete the Quiz on FM4 – Section A by going to: ncrafts.wordpress.com – Hover over ‘WJEC A2 Film Studies’ and then ‘Section A’ – Click on the ‘FM4: Section A’ Page – Click on the hyperlink to the quiz
- 4. FEEDBACK How did you get on?
- 5. Using your mini-whiteboards, YOU MUST summarise these themes & issues based on what you learnt over the last few lessons. YOU SHOULD give examples (Verbal, non-verbal and/or technical) of where this transition is represented in the text. Decency & Redemption “A Brutal, Hardened Gang Leader” (Karen Lee-Street – 2013) Starter 2) – 2 minutes
- 6. FEEDBACK How did you get on?
- 7. (Karen Lee-Street – 2013)
- 8. The extract where the policeman says “f*ck” after looing out into Soweto – YOU MUST answer the questions BELOW after watching the scene: 1) WHY does he say this? 2) Does he fear something/someone? 3) Does this ‘signify’ (De Saussure) the divide between different communities in the city? 4) The technical code of the wide shot of the Soweto landscape – Connotations? YOU SHOULD be prepared to identify example from the film and feedback your ideas to the rest of the class. Task 1) – 8 minutes
- 9. FEEDBACK How did you get on?
- 10. Task 2) – 8 minutes
- 11. Task 2) – 10 minutes “Think – Pair – Share” Based on the handout provided (previous slide), YOU MUST consider the following: • WHAT messages and values are ‘injected’ (Hperdermic needle theory) into the spectators minds about the people and/or places represented in EACH image? • HOW do the spectators respond to this representation? Extension - YOU COULD refer to theory such as Stuart Hall (1980) ‘Audience reception’
- 12. Task 2) – 8 minutes FEEDBACK
- 13. What have you learnt? YOU MUST summarise the 2 themes into 1 sentence for EACH theme. Extension – YOU COULD give examples from the text to support your understanding. Tsotsi – Locations & Social Issues
- 14. Homework Produce a “Mind-Map” of the Location and Social Issues represented in the text. (1 Page) Due: Next Lesson – L9 – Tuesday 3rd December Study this – Complete some of the tasks!