Title:
Tsotsi – Location and Social Representation Analysis
Monday 1st December 2014
FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates
Section A Specialist Study 1: Urban Stories – Power, Poverty and
Conflict
Why?
Aims & Objectives
• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.
• YOU WILL analyse the representation of the location and social issues from the principle text Tsotsi.
• 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 1) – 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
Using your mini-whiteboards, YOU MUST summarise these themes & issues based on what you learnt over the last few lessons. YOU SHOULD give examples (Verbal, non-verbal and/or technical) of where this transition is represented in the text.
Decency & Redemption“A Brutal, Hardened Gang Leader”
(Karen Lee-Street – 2013)
Starter 2) –2 minutes
The extract where the policeman says “f*ck” after looing out into Soweto –
YOU MUST answer the questions BELOW after watching the scene: 1) WHY does he say this?2) Does he fear something/someone?3) Does this ‘signify’ (De Saussure) the divide between different communities in the city?4) The technical code of the wide shot of the Soweto landscape – Connotations?
YOU SHOULD be prepared to identify example from the film and feedback your ideas to the rest of the class.
Task 1) – 8 minutes
Task 2) – 10 minutes
“Think – Pair – Share”Based on the handout provided (previous slide), YOU MUST consider the following:
• WHAT messages and values are ‘injected’ (Hperdermic needle theory) into the spectators minds about the people and/or places represented in EACH image?
• HOW do the spectators respond to this representation? Extension - YOU COULD refer to theory such as Stuart Hall (1980) ‘Audience reception’
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.
Tsotsi – Locations & Social Issues