Ending: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMJqQ3VrcCA
What happens next?
Write a treatment for the sequel keeping with the style of the film
Take a role of the character - psychological motivation
Discuss: How does the film use style to convey messages?
http://leighmediaasfilm.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/lesson-plan-21.html
Using the style of Children of Men, recreate the action scene in V for Vendetta
What differences?
Tuesday 26 November 2013
Friday 22 November 2013
Set work for this afternoon 22nd November
Write your conclusion and 5 key points of comparison as a video essay (using clips edited and recorded from your film texts)
Here is an example of what I want to see at the start of Tuesday afternoon's lesson.
Can the Media students please help the non media students You can use Quicktime Player to record screen when you play the video Or Clip converter (website) will let you rip them to a MOV file Add your text as titles to make your key points Once again: 3-5 clips from each film compared to make a unifying point (theme, narrative, representation, style) And a conclusion - what have you found?
Here is an example of what I want to see at the start of Tuesday afternoon's lesson.
Can the Media students please help the non media students You can use Quicktime Player to record screen when you play the video Or Clip converter (website) will let you rip them to a MOV file Add your text as titles to make your key points Once again: 3-5 clips from each film compared to make a unifying point (theme, narrative, representation, style) And a conclusion - what have you found?
Friday 15 November 2013
Set work for this afternoon
Set work for this afternoon - please prepare a video essay comparing V with Children of Men for Tuesday
Get clips that demonstrate similarities or points of comparison using the MACRO area that you focused on (ie Narrative etc)
See the recent post below where you researched your area.
Good luck
Get clips that demonstrate similarities or points of comparison using the MACRO area that you focused on (ie Narrative etc)
See the recent post below where you researched your area.
Good luck
Friday 8 November 2013
Tuesday 5 November 2013
Lesson Plan 2.1
Starter:
Hypothesis link examples & MACRO to the study
Genre changes over time
Men act, women appear
Style over substance (Visual style is more important than narrative substance)
Culture eats itself (there are no new ideas in Film)
Film is a voyeuristic act (Mirror Stage we project our own meaning, hopes, identity and inadequacies onto these characters)
Film does not reflect culture, it creates it through its messages
For Friday Present
your film ideas (10 min presentation)
1.MACRO & SPECIFIC ASPECT OF YOUR STUDY
2.CLIPS
KEY SCENES COMPARISON
3.ANALYSIS WHICH
ASPECT OF MICRO MEANING IS SIGNIFICANT
4.CONCLUSION - WHAT HAVE YOU FOUND?
5.HYPOTHESIS/THESIS
QUESTION (TITLE OF YOUR STUDY) - WHY?
Lesson 2
TO APPLY MACRO UNDERSTANDING INITIAL
ANALYSIS OF CHILDREN
OF MEN – NARRATIVE, THEMES & MESSAGES, STYLE, GENRE
Work through the activities: all can do > most can do > all can do
GENRE –
WHAT CONVENTIONS BLENDING? (COLLAGE)> STOCK CHARACTERS FROM THE GENRE > TO WHAT EXTENT IS THIS A
THRILLER OR A SCI FI? > ENIGMA
CODE & IS THIS SATISFIED?
CHN -
NARRATIVE PLOT OUTLINE/ CAUSE/EFFECT/HEROES JOURNEY
CHN -
CLEAR RESOLUTION/ENDING HAS SENSE OF CLOSURE?
CHN -
CHARACTERS, PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE?
> Situational
Throughline >POST
MODERN NARRATIVE
5 x
DYSTOPIAN THEMES – MOOD BOARD > MESSAGES – WHAT IS THE FILM
'SAYING' THROUGH ITS PLOT/CHARACTERS > ADVERTISING?
STYLE –
HOW DOES IT VISUALLY CREATE DYSTOPIA? (9 KEY SCENES) > HOW/WHY DOES IT
USE THE LONG TAKE? > HOW DOES THIS AFFECT HOW THE AUDIENCE RECEIVES
THE MESSAGE OF THE FILM?
Carousel
– teach each other in a group with notes & find own key scenes
Apply to
demonstrate - select scenes to SWEDE of the Film for Next week
&
discuss why?
Review
Characters
& their function/purpose... message?
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