l7 'tsotsi' review
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Title:
Tsotsi – Review/Overview
Tuesday 25th November 2014
FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates
Section A Specialist Study 1: Urban Stories – Power, Poverty and
Conflict
HomeworkProduce a “Mind-map” of the themes & issues represented in the text based around the “social issues” represented in the
text.
For example – Poverty, Disease, Violence, Education, Crime
Due: TODAY – Tuesday 25th November
Why?
Aims & Objectives
• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.
• YOU WILL begin your analysis of one of the key texts YOU MUST learn in detail for the exam in establishing HOW a “difficult urban environment” is represented to 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 – 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
FEEDBACK
How did you get on?
The Pipes - Juxtaposition
Using your mini-whiteboards, YOU MUST note down what these pipes ‘signify’ (De Saussure) to the spectator by considering the following clues:
FM4 – Section AEXAM BOARD EXPECTATIONS
FM4 – Section AEXAM BOARD EXPECTATIONS
In your exercise books, YOU MUST write a PEA paragraph explaining HOW the text helps construct a “difficult urban environment” to the spectator.
For example:
P – Tsotsi helps construct the representation of a “difficult urban environment” to the spectator through….
E – Give an example and use language like verbal, non-verbal and/or technical code.
A – This representation forces the spectator to take on a ‘Dominant Reading’ (Stuart Hall – 1980) of the text because….
Task 1) – 7 minutes
FM4 – Section AEXAM BOARD EXPECTATIONS
FEEDBACK
FM4 – Section A
YOU MUST ensure you have completed ALL of the Analysis boxes so you have
something to revise from.
FM4 – Section A
In Pairs, YOU MUST summarise the film into 5 Key Moments – for example: 1) The Robbery Gone Wrong2) Tsotsi kidnapping “Baby David” – Start of the ‘TT Movie’ (Judith Gunn)?3) Flashbacks that uncover Tsotsi’s problems4) Miriam and Tsotsi’s relationship –
For example does this (along with the flashbacks) ‘signify’ (De Saussure) an example of Tsotsi’s Oedipus complex (Sigmund Freud) whereby he “desires the Mother, but fears the Father”
5) Tsotsi is Arrested – Redemption? ‘New Equilibrium’ (Todorov)? Narrative Functions (Propp)
YOU SHOULD give examples – verbal, non-verbal & technical – to support HOW each stage represents EITHER a Negative Stereotype OR something spectators would associate with the text conveying the characters difficulties.
Task 2) – 10 minutes
FEEDBACK
How did you get on?
Decency & Redemption• Log on• Go to:
A2 Film Studies (Public Drive$) –
• Watch ‘Tsotsi’ and watch the recommended scenes (Next Slide)
Decency & RedemptionTask 3) – 10 minutes
Decency – Opening Scene Analyse HOW Boston is the conscience as Butcher and Tsotsi show little remorse for robbing and killing the man.
Decency – Boston violently assaulted by Tsotsi after being challenged about “decency” and holding in his frustrations. Redemption – Returning Baby David Focus on the Connotations behind his white outfit.Tsotsi killed Butcher to save the Child’s Father – WHY?
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.
Decency & Redemption
HomeworkNONE –
Just continue to study this text and use the text below to assist you: