Title:

Tsotsi – Review/Overview

Tuesday 25th November 2014

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Section A Specialist Study 1: Urban Stories – Power, Poverty and

Conflict

HomeworkProduce a “Mind-map” of the themes & issues represented in the text based around the “social issues” represented in the

text.

For example – Poverty, Disease, Violence, Education, Crime

Due: TODAY – Tuesday 25th November

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.

• YOU WILL begin your analysis of one of the key texts YOU MUST learn in detail for the exam in establishing HOW a “difficult urban environment” is represented to the spectator.

• 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 need to complete the Quiz on FM4 – Section A by going to:

ncrafts.wordpress.com – Hover over ‘WJEC A2 Film Studies’ and then ‘Section A’ – Click on the ‘FM4: Section A’ Page – Click on the hyperlink to the quiz

FEEDBACK

How did you get on?

The Pipes - Juxtaposition

Using your mini-whiteboards, YOU MUST note down what these pipes ‘signify’ (De Saussure) to the spectator by considering the following clues:

FM4 – Section AEXAM BOARD EXPECTATIONS

FM4 – Section AEXAM BOARD EXPECTATIONS

In your exercise books, YOU MUST write a PEA paragraph explaining HOW the text helps construct a “difficult urban environment” to the spectator.

For example:

P – Tsotsi helps construct the representation of a “difficult urban environment” to the spectator through….

E – Give an example and use language like verbal, non-verbal and/or technical code.

A – This representation forces the spectator to take on a ‘Dominant Reading’ (Stuart Hall – 1980) of the text because….

Task 1) – 7 minutes

FM4 – Section AEXAM BOARD EXPECTATIONS

FEEDBACK

FM4 – Section A

YOU MUST ensure you have completed ALL of the Analysis boxes so you have

something to revise from.

FM4 – Section A

In Pairs, YOU MUST summarise the film into 5 Key Moments – for example: 1) The Robbery Gone Wrong2) Tsotsi kidnapping “Baby David” – Start of the ‘TT Movie’ (Judith Gunn)?3) Flashbacks that uncover Tsotsi’s problems4) Miriam and Tsotsi’s relationship –

For example does this (along with the flashbacks) ‘signify’ (De Saussure) an example of Tsotsi’s Oedipus complex (Sigmund Freud) whereby he “desires the Mother, but fears the Father”

5) Tsotsi is Arrested – Redemption? ‘New Equilibrium’ (Todorov)? Narrative Functions (Propp)

YOU SHOULD give examples – verbal, non-verbal & technical – to support HOW each stage represents EITHER a Negative Stereotype OR something spectators would associate with the text conveying the characters difficulties.

Task 2) – 10 minutes

FEEDBACK

How did you get on?

Decency & Redemption• Log on• Go to:

A2 Film Studies (Public Drive$) –

• Watch ‘Tsotsi’ and watch the recommended scenes (Next Slide)

Decency & RedemptionTask 3) – 10 minutes

Decency – Opening Scene Analyse HOW Boston is the conscience as Butcher and Tsotsi show little remorse for robbing and killing the man.

Decency – Boston violently assaulted by Tsotsi after being challenged about “decency” and holding in his frustrations. Redemption – Returning Baby David Focus on the Connotations behind his white outfit.Tsotsi killed Butcher to save the Child’s Father – WHY?

What have you learnt?

YOU MUST summarise the 2 themes into 1 sentence for EACH theme.

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

Decency & Redemption

HomeworkNONE –

Just continue to study this text and use the text below to assist you: