Outline of the coursework - marks etc

Classic Hollywood Narrative - 3 Act Structure, Cause & Effect, Hero's Journey

Cause & Effect
Hero's Journey & 3 act structure

Reminder of Homework - A Presentation of your Draft so far due tomorrow lesson

If you are NOT coming on the trip on Friday:

You will use the 2.5 hours & 3 hours Homework to write a draft Textual Analysis essay of 750-1000 words using PEAS is due on your films.

Next week (Tomorrows Lesson) you will each present the content of your essay (5 mins) to the class as a model example - ensure you have the key scenes ready to play in the room. 

To ensure you cover all levels of thinking your presentation should be structured using PEAS.

• You should have a Thesis Statement - your personal argument (eg: the films follow or break the conventional narrative/genre rules, it questions our idea of the Hero for the modern day, it represent men as femininised, it has created a more sucessful style of Horror etc)
• It must examine the MICRO in your key scenes and discuss the significance of creating MACRO meaning (ie: how the camera in Psycho objectified the women sexually to represent her as 'there to be looked at', how the location/props create Genre meaning, how the editing makes the narrative 'jump' around out of sequence or tells 2 stories at once/creates juxtaposition between hero & villain - Batman can;t save both who has to die?)
• Each point must Infer (def: to reason, imply, propose, read into, imply, deduce) meaning to your MACRO (Narrative, Genre etc) study
• You should end with a conclusion

The class will mark your presentation out of 40 using the mark scheme - this will be used as your initial Module grade for your reports this term.

There will be no lesson planned next week - YOU are the Teacher, YOUR content IS the lesson.

Textual Analysis MACRO framework definitions

Theory with a small 't' - some approaches

These critical approaches (theory with a small 't') may be helpful to explore your area - they are from A2 Media so the elders (yr13) may find this a good way to cross over with the Media exam

Narrative overview

Classical Hollywood Narrative

Genre

Representation

The Male Gaze

Week 3 Coursework & Set Cover Work/Homework for Friday

If you are NOT coming on the trip on Friday:

You will use the 2.5 hours & 3 hours Homework to write a draft Textual Analysis essay of 750-1000 words using PEAS is due on your films.

Next week you will each present the content of your essay (10 mins) to the class as a model example - ensure you have the key scenes ready to play in the room. Your presentation must be structured using PEAS.

• You must have a Thesis Statement - your personal argument
• You must end with a conclusion
• It must compare the key scenes and comment on the significance of at least 1 aspect of MICRO (MES, CAM, EDIT, SOUND)
• Each point must Examine & Infer meaning to your MACRO study
• It must relate to your Thesis Statement

The class will mark your presentation out of 40 using the mark scheme - this will be used as your initial Module grade for your reports this term.

There will be no lesson planned next week - YOU are the Teacher, your content IS the lesson.

If you ARE coning to the Trip on Friday

Use your notes & learning on Narrative to prepare a lesson that applies (uses information in a new situation - ie different film) what you have learned to the Narrative for V for Vendetta (Group 1) & Children of Men (Group 2) 

Each group give a 20 minute Microteach with Clips from the films

Below is your progress tracking so you can monitor your progress - colour this in weekly using Paint and post to your blog.

Homework Mod 2 Week 2

1. Peer Assess the essays you took from class today (Grace I think you left yours behind so come and collect before next Thursday). Use the mark scheme to give it a grade (numeric) and be prepared to justify your decision

2. Upload your photo of your PEAS cards you wrote today - this is crucial for us to use in class to compare with Children of Men

3. Now you have a conclusion for your Textual Analysis, plan your coursework essay - list 4 points you want to address that you can compare and contrast in each film

POINT (MACRO areas - youth are represented as.../our hero is motivated out of revenge/enjoys killing)
EXAMPLE (Key Scene & MICRO - how this links to the point)
ANALYSIS (Infer Meaning ie: the character/motives/how they overcome problems/are represented as..)

4. Pay for the Film Studies trip for next week - £10 to finance. See me Wednesday if you are skint.

Proposal Outline

Super 8 vs Attack the Block from caraalexandrou