Key Scene Analysis

Thursday 15th January 2015

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.

• YOU WILL improve your understanding of the text by analyzing 3 key scenes.

• YOU WILL also develop your knowledge & understanding of the meanings behind the 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.

Starter – Re-cap Prior Learning

YOU MUST annotate the shots from the text and establish HOW:

• It ‘provokes an audience into taking a particular characters point of view’

• It meets OR challenges the spectators expectations of a Gangster film.

Extension – YOU COULD compare the shot to something you have seen that is similar from the other principle texts.

Toto – Actor name?

FM4 – Exam Expectations

• What impact does this have on the spectator? • Is this scene “flawed by sentimentality” (WJEC) towards the young adolescent male protagonist Toto?

Robert Bly (1986) argues that in Contemporary Western Society we do not have a “test for maturity” – however all young, adolescent males embark on a “rite of passage” to becoming a man

Robert Bly (1986)• “...boys are initiated into the tribe of men to

take their rightful places as heads of families, patriarchal leaders”

Where is this ideology presented in Gomorrah?

Similarities?

Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times –

“..a gangster film that departs from the glamorising norm…a vividly panoramic film about a pitiless world of criminality”

Film Quarterly – Summer 2009 – Michael Covino

2. “..Gomorrah has been hailed as shattering any romantic myths we may yet harbour about Gangsters”

Summer 2009 – Michael Covino

Do you agree?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN7-tepnIfY

Style of filming that is characterized by stories set amongst the poor.

Key Scene Analysis

YOU MUST – using the handout – answer the questions in relation to the key scenes we are going to be watching.

YOU SHOULD complete the Film Language boxes as well to help you gain a better understanding of HOW Gavin Hood uses Film Language to construct the representation of the characters and a “difficult urban environment”.

‘Gommorah’ (2008)Dir: Matteo GarroneStarring: Gianfelice Imparato, Simone Sacchettino, Salvatore Abruzzese and Maria NazionaleWritten by: Roberto Saviano (Book)

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Key Scene Analysis

‘Gommorah’ (2008)Dir: Matteo GarroneStarring: Gianfelice Imparato, Simone Sacchettino, Salvatore Abruzzese and Maria NazionaleWritten by: Roberto Saviano (Book)

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• Go to the FM4 – Section A Page of the Blog.

• Scroll down to the Gomorrah section

• Watch the interview with the author Roberto Saviano and complete the tasks by EITHER printing out the document and answering the Questions by hand OR Type up your answers electronically.

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What have you learnt?

PLENARY – 3 minutes

YOU MUST evaluate HOW the text represents a Difficult, Urban environment in no more than 30 words.

Extension – YOU COULD refer to specific examples from the text.

Homework

Produce a “Comparison Alley” of the ‘Contextual Issues’ (Themes & Issues – Social, Political, Cultural) surrounding the 3 films we have studied so far – e.g.

and

Violence – Poverty – Children and Crime – Power – Prospects – Escapism – Director Opinions/Critical Opinions – e.g “..transport our audiences into a World of radical contrasts” (Gavin Hood) – “Decency”

Due: Next Lesson – Monday 19th January