Homework

Watch the remainder of the text and complete the A3 Analysis sheet.

Due: TODAY - 14th January

YOU MUST write down the following BEFORE the technical code of the wide angle shot is revealed:

• Narrative – WHAT happened?• Character – WHO is the young boy?

WHO plays this character?

Extension – YOU COULD give more than x5 stereotypes

Entrance Activity

Title:

‘Gomorrah’ – Review

Date:

Wednesday 14th January 2014

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.

• YOU WILL review the film and assess HOW certain key themes & issues are addressed in the film.

• 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.

“It is not a mob film in the classical vein”

Peter Bradshaw – The Guardian (January 2008)

YOU MUST state HOW the images below challenge the stereotypes you provided on the entrance activity.

Style of filming….

Italian Neo-realism

Realism

On your mini-whiteboards, YOU MUST write down what style of film making this text conforms to.

Realism

Italian Neo-realismhttp://www.fipresci.org/undercurrent/issue_0609/casella_gomorra.htm

• Defined as a cinematic movement post WW2

• Characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class, filmed on location.

Task 1) – 8 minutes

1. Visit the link above – Note down x6 characteristics/examples of the film the define the “look” and “feel” of the text.

2. What has the Director – Matteo Garrone – set out to achieve?

Realism

Italian Neo-realism

Feedback• Matteo Garrone's Gomorra subverts the idea that a "mafia movie" has to have a

cohesive narrative structure.• The word "Camorra” ’signifies’ (De Saussure) a biblical place symbolizing total loss of

decency and of moral order.• The construction of each and every scene is meant to convey a constant sense of

randomness.• Garrone's camera follows his film's characters around, sometimes through lengthy

continuous shots.• Gomorra follows in the tradition of Italian Neorealism, but many have also observed

that it lacks Neorealism's sentimentalism, its warmth, its humanity.

Technical Code - High Angle Long ShotTechnical Code -

One character is centrally framed, while dead bodies are strewn around the edge of the frame.

Task 2) – 4 minutes

Watch the scene from the text –

YOU MUST note down HOW the following areas are represented:

• Evidence of total loss of decency and of moral order.

• The text – according to Michael Covino (2009) -

“Shattering any romantic myths we may yet harbour about Gangsters”

'Gomorrah' - Key scene

Feedback

“total loss of decency and of moral order?”

What have you learnt?

YOU MUST summarise the text into 3 words.

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

Homework

Watch the remainder of the text and complete the A3 Analysis sheet.

Due: Next Lesson - 14th January