Entrance Activity

Charades – YOU MUST write down the 2-3 Key terms/conventions associated to the genre (or Case Study) for students to guess as they come in.

Homework

Design your own Documentary question and answer it based on ‘Super Size Me’ ONLY! Due: Next Lesson – Tuesday 10th March

Title:Key Scene Overview –

Participatory, Performative and Expository ModeL2

Monday 9th March 2015

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Section B Specialist Study 2: Spectatorship Topics – Spectatorship

and Documentary

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.

• Demonstrate your understanding of the modes of documentary and the case study by completing some close textual analysis.

• 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.

After School Screening – FINISH After School

Monday 16th March

FEEDBACK

FM4 – Section B –

YOU MUST uncover the variation of modes present in this documentary by analyzing 2 Key Scenes and completing a series of questions surrounding the representations on offer.

‘Documentaries should never be trusted’. How important to the spectator is the sense that they should trust the documentary film maker?

‘Documentaries should never be trusted’. How important to the spectator is the sense that they should trust the documentary film maker?

• Spurlock taking on the role of “social actor” WHAT impact does this have on the spectator?

• Closing statement – Is this our ‘port of entry to the political’ (Performative - Nichols – 2001)?

• Illustrative facts and diagrams – Trustworthy?

• Spurlock phoning Jim Cantulupo – What position (Stuart Hall – 1980) are the spectator put in?

• Family unable to pledge their allegiance to the Flag – Yet they can pledge their allegiance to McDonalds

• Non-diegetic music “I hope you got fat!” – Elements of the Performative as well.

• Day 26 – Desecration of the flag – ‘Signifies’ (De Saussure) what?

Scene – Chapter 15

Scene – Chapter 14

FEEDBACK

‘Documentaries should never be trusted’. How important to the spectator is the sense that they should trust the documentary film maker?

What have you learnt?

What experiences do the spectators obtain from consuming this documentary?

4 minutes

Homework

Design your own Documentary question and answer it based on ‘Super Size Me’ ONLY! Due: 2 LessonS – Tuesday 10th March