What does this image of Brazil ‘signify’ (De Saussure) about life there?

Title:

Overview/Review of the text

Date:

Thursday 11th December 2014

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.

• YOU WILL review the 2nd Principle Film YOU MUST refer to in detail in the Exam.

• YOU WILL improve your understanding of the themes & issues represented in this text.

• 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.

Using your mini-whiteboards, YOU MUST write down WHO the key protagonists/antagonists from the text are.Extension – YOU COULD establish (in brackets) their actor name as well!

Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues)

Lil’ Dice and Lil’ Ze’ (Leandro Firmino)

Style of filming….

NEW WAVE

• Shaking camera – Add to the rough, urban and frenetic feel of the movie. The technical code of steadi-cam shots and static camera is used to connote a more calming presence to the narrative – for example:

Mood Board

Using the resource you have been given YOU MUST HOW this images conform to certain stereotypes surrounding life in a “difficult urban environment”.

PAIRS

Mood Board

“The sacrificial purpose of the chicken conveys with the force of a blunt instrument how cheap life has come to be in the ghetto, and

how victimhood and aggression have become fused together.”

Peter Bradshaw – The Guardian (January 2003)

In your exercise books, YOU MUST write a PEA paragraph explaining HOW the text helps construct a “cheap” life is to the spectator.

For example:

P – ‘City of God’ helps construct the representation of how “how cheap life has come to be in the ghetto” (Peter Bradshaw – The Guardian - January 2003) to the spectator through….E – Give an example and use language like verbal, non-verbal and/or technical code from the text.A – This representation forces the spectator to take on a ‘Dominant Reading’ (Stuart Hall – 1980) of the life in the favelas of Brazil because….

Feedback

Theory to consider for the exam!

“In this very earthly City of God, war, hatred and chaos are the order of the day”.

Stephen M. Hart(2004)

War, Hatred and Chaos

Mood Board

Referring to your mood board, YOU MUST establish HOW War, Hatred and Chaos are represented in this text.

YOU SHOULD refer to examples form your A3 Analysis sheet in determining your understanding.

Extension – YOU COULD refer to narrative theories such as Syd Field, Todorov OR Propp in demonstarting your understanding.

“The technique of that shot – the whirling camera, the flashback, the change in colours from the dark brightness of the slum to the dusty sunny browns of the soccer field – alert us to a movie that is visually alive and inventive as few films are”

Roger Ebert (2003)

Pan and Cross Dissolve

3 Stories – “The Tender Trio”

• “They were just amateur” – HOW?

• Handing out propane to the City – HOW do the spectators feel?

3 Stories – “Lil’ Ze”

3 Stories – “The slum had been purgatory.

Now it was hell”

• Purgatory – Connotations?• Knockout Ned – ‘Prince’ (Propp) or a ‘Villain’ (Propp) just like Lil’ Ze’?• Struggle (Propp’s Narrative Functions) – With what? Why?

What have you learnt?

YOU MUST summarise the text into 3 words.

Extension – YOU COULD give examples from the text to support your understanding.

Decency & Redemption

Homework

1) Write a short review of the text and HOW it helps construct a “difficult urban environment” to the spectator

2) Buy

Due: Monday 15th December