Title:

Exam Practice

Date:

Friday 9th January 2015

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.

• YOU WILL develop your understanding of the texts studied so far to establish HOW certain key examples apply to an Exam Question.

• YOU WILL learn more about WJEC’s expectations of YOU!

• 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.

Re-cap – WHAT have you been able to find?

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NarrativeCharactersSocial IssuesCrimeLocation

Main Activity

‘The stylistic choices made by filmmakersdefine not just the look but also the meaning

of afilm.’

How far is this true of the films you have studied for this topic? (Summer 2012)

“SIMPLES!”filmmakers

WHO are they?

“SIMPLES!”

Stylistic Choices

WHY in the native language?

Afrikaans, Zulu and XhosaPortuguese

HOW was this achieved in the film?

YOU MUST give x1 example of for EACH statement.YOU SHOULD refer to your notes on the text from previous lesson.

“Our primary intention was to make a taut, well-paced, character driven, psychological thriller”

“..transport our audiences into a World of radical contrasts”

Gavin Hood

1. – “READ”

2. -“Highlight”

‘The stylistic choices made by filmmakers define not just the look but also the meaning of a film.’

How far is this true of the films you have studied for this topic? (Summer 2012)

‘The stylistic choices made by filmmakers define not just the look but also the meaning of a film.’

How far is this true of the films you have studied for this topic? (Summer 2012)

Tsotsi –

- What are the connotations behind the white shirt Tsotsi wears at the end?- Use of Non-diegetic music – Meanings presented to the spectator?- Mise-en-scene – e.g. Setting, Lighting –Connotations- Use of Flashbacks – What do they reveal about Tsotsi?

City of God–

- Non-Linear Narrative- Non-Diegetic Voiceover- Mise-en-scene- Cinematography- Representation of Violence- Character roles

3. - “DRAW” (Plan)YOU MUST plan (A4 Page) WHAT examples you are going to refer to.

4. - “Explain”

Feedback - WHY these examples?

6. – “Answer the Question”

YOU MUST - using your planning notes and previous work completed – Answer the Question on the computer.

ALL Past Paper Questions from 2012 onwards will be available to access in the Public Drive Folder above in ‘A2 Film Studies’.

There are a number of hard copy past papers in the office as well so feel free to borrow any papers needed for further study.

Homework

1) FINISH your type-up to the answer – AT LEAST 3 Pages – Send to Mr Crafts for Assessment

2) Continue to revise for the exam

Due: Next Lesson –

Monday 12th January – Period 3