There are four research tasks outlined below. As a group you need to decide who is going to do each task. Try to pick one that is going to extend you!
You will have two weeks to complete this task and it needs to be in an electronic form as I will be posting them on this blog. Try to make it informative and visual.
DUE IN ON 17th Oct - at the start of the lesson
The Film
Your job is to research, prepare and deliver a presentation
about the film. You will need to
complete the following:
·
Plot summary of the film
Character profiles (with pictures) of all the
key characters and the role they play in the film
- Key Production information (Dates, key personal,
Production Companies, Budget, Funding, Marketing etc)
- Information about the awards won by the film
-
A summary of the way in which this film was
viewed by critics (including quotes from reviews – you will need to look at a
range of reviews from different sources)
- The influence this film has had on audiences and
film making in Brazil
The Director
Your job is to research, prepare and deliver a presentation
about the key creative people behind the film, in particular the director
Fernando Meirelles, the co director Katia Lund, the author Paulo Lins and the
producer Walter Salles. You need to cover the following in your presentation
- Basic Bio information of each person and how
their background might have impacted on the film.
- Other films they have work on (comment on how
the are similar/different to City of God)
- Their filmmaking/writing style and how City of
God reflects this (maybe watch/analyse a key scene).
- Meirelles as an auteur and evidence of his style
from the film.
- Any critical acclaim key personal have received
and why.
The Setting
This film is set in a place and time that will be unfamiliar
to most of the class. Your job is to
research, prepare and deliver a presentation about Brazil in the 1960’s to
early 1980’s and about the real City of God.
You need to cover the following areas:
- How City of God (the place) came into being
-
The role of men and women in this society and at
this time
- The Education
system
- The place of Religion
- Economic Situation
- Police and Crime
- Demographic profile of Brazil and the City of
God
- The other, more positive representation of
Brazil (and how the film challenges this)
You can use the film as a source of information to help
address some of these areas.
The Characters
Your job is to
prepare a presentation on the key characters from the film.Choose 4 of the
following characters Lil Ze, Rocket, Carrot, Benny, Knockout Ned, The Tender
Trio (treat as one).
You will need to include the following:
- Images of the characters so we can clearly
identify them – you may need images of when they were young and old.
- Explain their story – what happens to them
across the course of the film, what are the key events that happen to them and
how does their story end?
- Explain the relationships they have with the
other key characters in the film (Lil Ze, Rocket, Carrot, Benny,
Knockout Ned, The Tender Trio and any others that you think are important)
- Choose one key scenes connected with each
character and explain what happens in the scene and why you think the scene
are important.
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Explain how they connect with the central themes
of the film – power, poverty and conflict.
