key scene analysis

1. Homework
REVISE for an upcoming past Paper – The ONLY Mock you will
complete before the exam!
It WILL be a Past Paper Question
Due:
Friday 1st
May

2. Entrance Activity
1. WHO came up with the Semantic and Syntactic Elements
theory?
2. Name x3 examples of Semantic Elements associated to the
Gangster Genre?
2. Name x3 examples of Syntactic Elements associated to the
Gangster Genre?

3. Title:
‘American Gangster’ – Key Scenes Analysis –
Screening (L2 of 3)
Thursday 30th
April 2015
FM2 –
British and American Film (60%) of AS Level)
Section C –
US Cinema Comparative Study –
‘Goodfellas’ and ‘American Gangster’ -
(40 marks)

4. Why?
Aims & Objectives
• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.
• YOU WILL develop your
understanding of the key
messages & values represented
in some of the key scenes from
‘American Gangster’
• YOU WILL be able to recognise
where theory/key ideas apply to
these key scenes.
• 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.

5. Task - 25 minutes
YOU MUST analyse the recommended scenes and establish HOW the Theoretical approaches surrounding the Gangster
Genre apply to these 3 scenes and WHERE (Micro Feature Evidence – Sound, Mise-en-Scene, Cinematography)
YOU SHOULD consider HOW these scenes COMPARE to other scenes from ‘Goodfellas’
• Frank and Huey – Clash over dress sense
“The loudest one in the room is the
weakest one in the room” – Frank Lucas
dresses more conservatively.
• Frank and Dominic Cattano – Scene at the
house.
Vladimir Propp – Narrative Functions
Social learning theory and Vicarious Learning
(Bandura - 1977)
Friedrich Engels (1884)
Stella Bruzzi (1995)

6. FEEDBACK
• Frank and Huey – Clash over dress sense
“The loudest one in the room is the
weakest one in the room” – Frank Lucas
dresses more conservatively.
• Frank and Dominic Cattano – Scene at the
house.

7. What have you learnt?
YOU MUST write down – in ONE Paragraph – what the 2 scenes deconstructed
today represent to the spectator about the life of a Gangster.

8. Homework
REVISE for an upcoming past Paper – The ONLY Mock you will
complete before the exam!
It WILL be a Past Paper Question
Due:
Friday 1st
May