Fish Tank - Binary Opposition Qs

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Elements of narrative

Narrative analysis and theory

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Elements of narrative:






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'Beasts Of The Southern Wild' (Zeitlin, 2012)

Task

Watch the opening 15 minutes of ‘Beasts’ (Zeitlin, 2012) and answer the following questions:

1.   What is the opening shot?

                  a).What might this be a metaphor for?

2.   Who’s point of view (POV) is the narrative told from?

a)   Which narratives techniques are used to convey this?

3.   What does the protagonist say are the good things about where she lives?

4.   Do you agree with everything that the protagonist says?

a)   Identify something you agree with.

b)   Identify something you disagree with.

5.   How closely aligned are we with the narrator?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16YPdg1JBYD3Akxe0Tq65XRu6n-kDJWBL/view?usp=sharing

Short film analysis - Starter

A1 Film Studies

Starter

1.   In your small groups watch ‘Connect’ again and answer the following questions:

2.   What is the opening shot?

a.   What does this establish?

b.   What other microfeatures does the narrative use? – give examples.

3.   Which other narrative techniques does the film use? – give examples

4.   Which of the four short film categories does it fall into? – explain your choice. 

   View the Short Film 'Wasp' dir Andrea Arnold 
   Complete the following tasks:
  1. Write a premise for Wasp (Who wants what and why can't they have it?)
  2. Which of the 4 short film categories does it fall into? - explain the reasons for your choice.
  3. Write a page of screenplay from any part of the film. 

   Email your work to me by next week.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZaohOwaRE3zIGPjaKN4jqlJDtk6fKg5U/view?usp=sharing

Job opportunity - film related

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Starter

What are the differences between a short film's narrative and a feature-length film's narrative?

First Zoom meeting

Hi A1 Film Studies students,

We are going to have our first Zoom meeting where we can continue out work on 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' (Zeitlin, 2012)

Our meeting will be at 10.45 on Wednesday 1st April. (this is NOT an April fool.)

It is important you virtually attend and I will be taking a register.

To attend, you will need to download an App called Zoom on to your computer or smart phone - it's free.

30 mins before the meeting starts, I will email you a link.

To join the meeting you just click on the link.

If you have any problems, please email me at the time, as I will be watching my inbox to se if any one needs help.

Look forward to seeing you again next week.