Assignment 7 narrative analysis in a scene

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ASSIGNMENT 7: NARRATIVE ANALYSIS IN A SCENE INGRID DE SOUZA JHANÉ IMANI ORMSBY-JACKSON FATOU PANZOUT (NAMES WRITTEN ON SLIDE OF ONES WE HAVE DONE)

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ASSIGNMENT 7: NARRATIVE ANALYSIS IN A SCENE

INGRID DE SOUZA

JHANÉ IMANI ORMSBY-JACKSON

FATOU PANZOUT

(NAMES WRITTEN ON SLIDE OF ONES WE HAVE DONE)

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PART 1

OVERALL N

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FREEDOM WRITERS

And for the rest of their school career, she fights to remain to be their teacher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrJMgYRC_ys

Erin Grunwell starts to work in a school where there is a large amount of racist and gang problems amongst the teens

she tries to earn their respect and gives it back to them, by sacrificing a lot of her personal time just for her new students

The characters have have severe family problems and nearly all the students have either been part of gun crimes

As time progresses they begin to respect one and another and the teacher as well, becoming better students

Done together

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IS THIS A WHOLE NARRATIVE, A SECTION OR AN ENIGMA?

Section.

• This is only a 2:35 minute section from the film

This is during the scene where Eva has confessed in court that her boyfriend Paco killed the victim. After confessing the truth, her group members came and verbally and physically (to an extent) attacked her.

Done together

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IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT A SECTION OF A NARRATIVE, WHAT FUNCTION DOES THIS SECTION HAVE FOR THE NARRATIVE? (THINK ABOUT THE WHOLE) (FATOU)

She's in court in the witness box

As she looks around she stumbles to confess the truth

She then admits the truth that Paco killed the boy

As she runs, she gets caught by them

They begin to give her warnings and threatening her.

They then leave her by throwing her on the ground

The function of the END scene is to answer all enigma's that were answered at the: -beginning (which is who did he kill)

-through the film (why did he kill him and how did he find him)

As she’s walking out the school she begins to run away from her group members

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DOES THE FILM FOLLOW THE CONVENTIONAL NARRATIVE (3 PART)? EXPLAIN YES OR NO (JHANE)

NoThe film is non linear with changing the order of time in a very confusing way to create enigmas for the audience however the order of time was used only in flashbacks.

Narrative Structure of film

Audience emotions

A teacher comes to a rural area not knowing what she's getting into

A Teacher faces racial prejudice

Ms Grunwell realises there's a problem and try's to unity cultures.

Students open up to her expressing elements of there passed

Failing previously, Ms Grunwell teaches them historical truths.

Due to knowledge, all cultures within the class all unity in the hope the community would unity also.

Interested as to what the movie is about

Slightly frustrated as the cultures clash

Angry as the innocent is victimised

Sympathy due to the traumatic occurrences

Interested as they are educated

Satisfied as the end result was ‘unity in the community’

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DOES THE CLIP FALL INTO A CONVENTIONAL NARRATIVE STRUCTURE? EXPLAIN YES OR NO (FATOU)

• Yes it does fall into a conventional structure• Because it doesn’t have any flashbacks, flashforwards or forking paths.

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IS IT LINEAR? HOW? OR IS IT NON-LINEAR? HOW (DOES IT HAVE FLASHBACKS, FLASH-FORWARDS, OR EPISODICALLY)(INGRID)

LINEAR STRUCTURE

Start(in the courtroom)

Chronological

Chronological

Chronological

Chronological

Chronological

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IS IT BEING PRESENTED IN SEGMENTS, SEPARATED BY CHANGES IN LOCATION OR TIME?(JHANE)

LOCATION TIME

IN COURT ROOM

Having the courage to tell the truth

TELLING THE TRUTH

GETTING CHASED

In real time

In real time

In real time

In real time

Ellipsis (a few moments later)

Immediate cut to next scene

Going to the next scene

Continue

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IS IT BEING BROKEN UP OR LINKED BY GRAPHICS?(JHANE)

No graphics are present in this clip.

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IS THERE A SINGLE NARRATIVE (EVEN IF DIFFERENT ASPECTS IN THIS NARRATIVE ARE BEING SHOWN)? OR ARE MULTIPLE NARRATIVES BEING SHOWN?(FATOU)

Single Narrative

Eva is about to make her statement

As Eva looks

around at the

different families that are involved

Eva confesses the truth

Eva is on her way home

Eva is running

away from her family

as they chase her

Eva gets confronted

and harassed

Only scene in different location/time

(but relates to the single narrative)

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IS THERE A SINGLE NARRATIVE (EVEN IF DIFFERENT ASPECTS IN THIS NARRATIVE ARE BEING SHOWN)? OR ARE MULTIPLE NARRATIVES BEING SHOWN?(JHANE)Narrative 1 Narrative 2

Eva’s father dies and she experiences it.

Eva is used to not taking school seriously and is showing her true colours.

Eva experiences her ‘brother from the hood’ gets shot and has seen the killer.

Ms Grunwell starts off in a school in such a rural area.

Ms Grunwell is faced with racial prejudice within her class.

To understand her class she try's to connect to her

Ms Grunwell connects with students understanding them.

Ms Grunwell connects with students understanding them, working with them as well as Eva .

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ARE THERE CLEAR CHARACTER ROLES AND FUNCTIONS BEING ESTABLISHED, SUCH AS A HERO OR VILLAIN? HOW DOES THEIR ROLE(S) CONNECT TO THE NARRATIVE?(INGRID)

HERO VILLAIN

ROLE/REPRESENTATION

THEIR FUNCTION -To get sympathy and understanding from audienceShe is a witness, but can’t lie so she must tell the truth in order to restore justice

-To be admired by audience She is attractive and told the told about who the real killer was.

-To be hated by audience Because he killed the Asian Girl character’s boyfriend and didn’t confess to the truth and expected Eva to keep it secret.

-To get sympathy and understanding from audienceShe is a victim, as she gets confronted by her family

Feminine, attractive

Quite Masculine, unattractive

Black Hair, Dark brown eyes, formally dressed

Older, casual/unstylish clothes

Serious look on face

Worried look on face

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IN WHAT WAYS IS THE NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTING THE IDEOLOGY OF THE TEXT? IS THIS EXPLICIT/OBVIOUS (LIKE IN A LOT OF ADVERTS) OR IS IT IMPLICIT/HIDDEN? (JHANE)

IDEOLOGY Evidence Implicit Explicit

Racial Prejudice

Cultural Honour

Seeking revenge and justice

Consequence to deceit and bad Behaviour

There were the racial issues between the Latinos and Black

Characters

Eva feels pressure to honour the people in her culture as they are

seen as the family of the communities

Due to the betrayal in court on her own family (same culture), they chase Eva and disowned

her from the family

Consequently, the Black characters begin to put up with other cultures and are open to accept them more(not seen in

this scene).

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STORY TIME & DISCOURSE TIME (FATOU)

STORY TIME DISCOURSE TIME

Screen GrabN/A

ExplanationNo evidence but

probably within an hour

- Seconds to confess,

-seconds to come out the court room

-minutes to run away from the people -daylight remains

(light looks the same = only difference is

her clothes)

Takes 2:35 minutes to narrate this scene

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IDENTIFY ALL TYPES OF TIME BEING REPRESENTED: (JHANE)

Types of Time

Screen Grabs/Evidence Explanation

SummaryScene takes place over approximately one day from the courts to the consequences.

Clip is only 2:35 long, therefore by editing time it has represent a day over only 2 minutes.

Ellipsis 1) Eva is in the witness chair 2) Reactions to the end result in court.3) Eva getting chased4) Eva being caught

SceneWhen Eva has been questioned

Stretch N/A

Flashback

Flash-forward

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