Homework

• FINISH the paragraph• Using your ‘City of God’ Study Guide, research the Location

& Social Representations even further and produce a 1-page overview of your findings.

Due: TODAY – Tuesday 6th January

Using the worksheet provided, YOU MUST answer the Question in reference to ONE of the key scenes we have analysed today and support your argument with ONE piece of Evidence – Verbal, Non-Verbal and/or Technical Code.

Extension – YOU COULD refer to BOTH scenes we have analysed today and write x2 Paragraphs.

“It is a zone beyond the civilized city, which, as the city's inverted, carnivalesque image, makes the

very idea of civilization possible”

How does the text represent this ideology?

PEA Paragraph Task –

Feedback – Homework!

Title:

City of God – “War, Hatred and Chaos”

Date:

Tuesday 6th January 2015

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.

• YOU WILL assess HOW“War, Hatred & Chaos” is represented in the text and the impact this has on the spectator.

• 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 Task - Narrative

- Using your mini white boards, re-cap prior learning by writing down HOW Syd Field’s Narrative Theory applies:

“representing life in a difficult urban environment”

Act 1) – The Set-UpAct 2) – The ConfrontationAct 3) – The Resolution

Extension – YOU COULD consider (See Page 49 – 51 of your study guide) HOW other Narrative devices are applied to the text – for example Diegetic and Non-Diegetic insertions

7 minutes

Style of filming….

The verb “To shoot” connotes…..YOU MUST finish the sentence by focusing on EITHER:

• HOW the camera and the Gun are symbols of representing ‘human misery’ (Walter Chaw) in the text

• The intentions of Fernando Meirelles on representing life in the favellas• HOW Violence is a main theme in City of God

Page 98 - 106

7 minutes

Theory to consider for the exam!

“In this very earthly City of God, war, hatred and chaos are the order of the day”.

Stephen M. Hart(2004)

Groups

Group 1) Group 2)

Beth Jordyn

Connor Keir

Joe R Jamilla

Chris

Scene 1) Scene 2)

AO1 Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of film as an audio-visual form of creative expression together with its contexts

of production and reception and of the diversity in film making across different historical periods and locations.

Based on the THEORY you have just written down in your exercise books from Stephen M. Hunt, YOU MUST consider:

What challenges does this text present to the viewer?

YOU MUST answer this question based around the scene that has been provided to you!

In pairs, based on the objective outlined, denote what is presented in your scene – then

after 10 minutes, swap with the pair next to you and analyse the other scene.

What have you learnt?

1. ? Which character embodies Stephen M. Hunt’s ideology of “War, Hatred and Chaos” to the spectator and why?

Homework

1) Write a short review of how the text as a whole conforms to Stephen M. Hunt’s ideology (250 – 500 words)

2) Research 1 theory that a particular character from ‘City of God’ conforms to and give a brief reason WHY.

Due: Thursday 8th January – Period 4