l23 exam paper practise 2)

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:Today – Period 3

Title:

L23 - Exam Practice Lesson 2Date:

Monday 12th 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 prior Learning 1)

‘High 5’“Decency”

On your mini-whiteboards, YOU MUST write down 5 examples of where “Decency” is represented OR challenged in the principle text ‘Tsotsi’.

YOU SHOULD identify verbal, non-verbal and/or technical codes that help represent this contextual area.

Extension – YOU COULD give more than x5 examples.

5 minutes

‘High 5’

FEEDBACK

Main Activity

Winter 2014

WHAT are some of the issues represented in the text?

1. – “READ” 2. - “Highlight”

and

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

Gavin Hood

• Poverty• Social Depravation• Binary Opposition (Levi Strauss) –

Rich vs. Poor

Good vs. Evil

WHAT else?

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/25/why-i-love-city-of-god-favela

EXCELLENT further reading on Fernando Meirelles and what he oves about ‘City of God’.

3. - “DRAW” (Plan)

Fernando Meirelles has said the film's main theme is "the waste of lives" in communities like the City of God.

YOU MUST produce a persuasive argument whereby you EITHER AGREE or DISAGREE with HOW this theme is represented in ‘Tsotsi’ as well.

YOU SHOULD support your understanding with evidence from the text.

‘High 5’

WHAT are 5 other themes represented in ‘City of God’?

Violence

4. - “Explain”

Feedback - WHY these examples?

6. – “Answer the Question”

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 answer – AT LEAST 3-4 Pages2) Continue to revise for the exam

Due: 2 Lessons time –

Wednesday 14th January