3.4 Acting out your scene screenplay and writing dialogue
Friday 17 January 2014
Tuesday 14 January 2014
MACRO Rules Wall - Distort, Exaggerate, Breaks, Plays (style)
How does V & CoM break the 'rules' of CHN, Genre conventions and stock characters, Stereotypes
What Dystopian Themes and Messages are linked to this breakdown of structure?
How do these Post-Modern films re-enforce Dystopian Themes and the 'warning' message through using this STYLE?
Tuesday 7 January 2014
Ideas Generation
Story builder - using your Film Texts from your study, write and swap
Genre & Location
Characters - Antagonist/Protagonist
What is the disruption - event
How does the character respond - solve the problem
How is the story resolved
What is the Iconic Moment?
Give the film a Title
Write a film tagline for
What is the MACRO study
Now get together with another student to piece the story back together
Starter: Film pitches -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7nvNhAer1w
Recap:
Film Plot randominser Ideas – Building though
bricolage
Next student and then...
What are narrative threads?
What is the 'iconic moment' in the prequels – continuity in the franchise
Create Meaning
1. Check your idea against tips & discuss with
Mentor
2. Discuss with your mentor & get feedback – specifically (Mind Map
& Blog):
ñ Characters - get faces captured (role in the story,
behaviours/stereotypes)
ñ Plot (outline & narrative threads/iconic
moment)
ñ Genre (how you are developing the
conventions/hybridity & why)
ñ MACRO influence – explain to your Mentor what aspect of your study are you exploring with this scene (see criteria for coursework)
ñ
Conclusion: Resolution or Disruption – Prequel or Sequel
Apply to demonstrate
1. Present your Elevator Pitch to your Mentor
(Video Diary)
2. On Blog
Justify how it fulfils the success criteria
Mentor will evaluate the idea (1
improvement, 1 encouragement)
|
Review - 1
|
10 mins
Mentor evaluative feedback
– are we good to go?
Create a Marketing Tagline to advertise on of the films – i.e.
"Like father like son"
Post Modern Films? Breaking Structures
New Info: Video Essays. Play the 2 films in 60 seconds projects – Either team evaluates the video (paper)
> Mock exam: Narrative, Representation, Style or
Genre question
> Link to Messages.
CREATE “WALL” with narrative, genre, representation concepts written on
it
Feedback
Checklist –
outline the content
Knowledge &
understanding of MACRO
Sense of arguement or judgment/justification
To what
extent do the films conform to mainstream film gender stereotypes (mother,
hero, sex object, damsel in distress etc?
What
messages can you read about the role/behaviour of men/women?
What
theoretical perspective can we apply to our analysis (Male Gaze, Phallic/Yonic)
http://martinstewartfilmstudies.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/to-what-extent-do-v-for-vendetta.html
Group 1: Identify the analysis points for V & CoM each pair discusses on P
card (3 for V, 3 for CoM)
Group 3: Analyse the purpose & meaning (messages/links to themes) on Analysis cards
Group 4: identify the Compare and conclusion on the Synthesis cards (this is the answer to the question)
Find your relevant partners in the room to rebuild the essay in it's stages. Carousels around the room & collect Representation Points for your Points cards (4 for both sets)
http://martinstewartfilmstudies.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/elevator-pitch.html
Post-Modern = breaking 'structures' (how can we
apply this to Genre?)
Show Wreck It
Ralph – print off walls with NARRATIVE CONCEPTS
2014 Film Geek/Awareness Quiz - set film criticism
Starter: Film Quiz
What makes these films relevant to 2013?
(answers below)
What were the biggest box office successes of
2013?
Critical Thinking:
What are
some of the similarities between them?
Production
Studio (Hollywood?)
Box
Office Gross
Budget
(if you can find it)
Director/Actors
Genre
Franchise
Audience
intended
Why are the following films important &
how many have you seen? What are
they so different to the Box Office List?
Argo
Life of
Pi
Lincoln
Silver
Linings Playbook
Django
Unchained
Les Mis
Amour
Brave
Skyfall
Why/why not?
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