Intro to Fight Club

Fight club 8 critical approaches 2016 from Naamah Hill

Unsupervised Task:

Researching Fight Club from Naamah Hill

Representation in City of God

Youth and Youth Culture in City of God from Naamah Hill
 

Representation of Gender in City of God from Naamah Hill
 

Representation of Drugs and Drug Culture from Naamah Hill

 

Representation in City of God - Place from Naamah Hill

 

City of god Ethnicity from Naamah Hill

Conflict in City of God

Conflict in City of God from Naamah Hill

Unsupervised work for the week beginning 10 Oct

Central Theme - Poverty

You need to explore how the film deals with the theme of poverty.

1. Start by reading the page in your booklet that looks like this:

At the bottom of the page are four questions that I would like you to answer.

2. Download the word document below.  It has a series of statements about the theme of poverty and how is is portrayed/ represented in the film.  Under each statement you need to develop the statement by referencing to specific scenes, moment etc.  I have done the first one for you to give you an example. You can print the document and write in the boxes by hand or do it on the computer.

Poverty in City of God - Worksheet from Naamah Hill

Representation in City of God

As well as understanding the central themes we need to talk about the issues of representation.

There are five key areas that we will need to look at:

• Gender
• Drug Culture
• Youth Culture
• Place 
• Ethnicity

In order to have a good understanding of these areas I would like you to choose one of them (not gender - see below) and prepare a presentation.  Base your presentation around four key questions:

1. How is/are ______ represented?
2. What would be good scenes to talking about ______? Why?
3. What might be challenging about  _______?
4. What messages might the audience take from this film about ___?

I have already done one on Gender to give you an idea:

City of god gender from Naamah Hill

If you do a bit of a google search you will probably find powerpoint done by students in past years.  You can use these as a base for your own work but don't just copy them..... You will present your powerpoint to me on Friday!

Power in City of God

Remember that you need to write at least 500 words about the theme of power and refer to specific scenes and minor elements

05.City of God and the Theme of Power from Naamah Hill

Excellent Resources for City of God

City of God Booklet from South Sefton College

Chapter from a book all abut Brazil on film - starts on page 101
20 Things You didn't know about City of God
Character Study of Lil Ze
City of God 10 Years on
Poverty and Crime in City of God

Favela Rising Documentary

Watch the full documentary here

Intro to World Cinema

Intro to world cinema from Naamah Hill

Unsupervised for the Week beginning 26th Sept

Complete writing up five sources for your annotated catalogue - Due in on Friday.
Start rewatching City of God - the DVD is in the back room and also on the Macs in Student resources.

How to write up your catalogue

Don't forget that I want you to try and write up 5 sources for inclusion and one that you might reject! There are sentence starters on the last page of the slide.

Writing Your Catalogue from Naamah Hill

Unsupervised for the week beginning 19 Sept

Research and write up 5 more possible sources.  Remember that you need to have more the 20 sources - they more you research the better your final presentation will be.

Unsupervised for the week beginning 12 Sept

By the end of the week you will need to have watched one focus film and taken detailed notes on scenes that relate to your area of study.  You need to think about camera, mise en scene, editing, sound as well as performance.  I will want to see your notes on Friday.

Research Project Checkpoint 1

Research project Checkpoint 1 from Naamah Hill

Research Project Checkpoint One Form from Naamah Hill

Possible Areas of Research

Building on the work done in the last lesson you now need to choose three possible topics that you would like to research.  For each topic you need to complete the sheet below.  Where is says 'Possible Sources' list them an briefly summarise info you find out.
Once these are complete I will check them over and give you some feedback before you need to decide on your final area.

Your small scale research proposal from Naamah Hill

The 8 Critical Approaches

The Critical Approaches from Naamah Hill

Possible areas of study from Naamah Hill

Film Journal - Summer Homework

Film Journal from Naamah Hill

Films to watch from Naamah Hill

Intro to A2 film Studies

Intro to Film Studies A2 from Naamah Hill

Research Booklet from Naamah Hill