This document outlines the objectives and activities for a film analysis lesson on the movie "Tsotsi". Students will re-cap prior learning, analyze 3 key scenes over 2 lessons, and review the learning. They will answer starter questions to demonstrate understanding of themes. Students will also establish the narrative structure using Syd Field's model and analyze how film language constructs representations in key scenes. The lesson will end with a plenary where students summarize what they learned.

1. Key Scene Analysis
Wednesday 3rd December
FM4:
Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

2. After School Screening – Compulsory
Monday 8th December

3. Why?
Aims & Objectives
• YOU WILL re-cap prior
learning.
• YOU WILL improve your
understanding of the
text by analyzing 3 key
scenes over the next 2
lessons.
• 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.

4. Starter –
Re-cap Prior Learning
YOU WILL be asked to fill in the missing word in relation to a key theme and/or issue
represented in the text.

5. What are the connotations behind this High Angle Long Shot of the man left for dead
on the train?
What does the “moment between Tsotsi and Butcher”(Gavin Hood) prior to this
‘signify’ (De Saussure) to the spectator?
Using your exercise books, YOU MUST Answer the Questions below:

6. “You know you went ____ _____ ___________”too far tonight
Is this stereotypical of the male gender in the text?

7. Starter 2) –
Narrative
In your own words, YOU MUST establish HOW the following is represented in ‘Tsotsi’:
Syd Field – Narrative Theory
Act 1) – “The Set Up” = WHAT occurs during the first 10 minutes in terms of establishing
the characters, setting and plot? YOU SHOULD select and recall examples from the text.
Act 2) – “The Confrontation” – WHAT confrontations take place in the narrative? WHY?
HOW are they resolved?
Act 3) – “The Resolution” – HOW is Tsotsi’s situation resolved in the eyes of the spectator?

8. Key Scene Analysis
YOU MUST – using the handout – answer the questions in relation to the key scenes
we are going to be watching.
YOU SHOULD complete the Film Language boxes as well to help you gain a better
understanding of HOW Gavin Hood uses Film Language to construct the
representation of the characters and a “difficult urban environment”.

9. What have you learnt?

10. PLENARY – 2 minutes
YOU MUST write down as
much as you can about what
you have learnt in today’s
lesson.
Extension – YOU COULD
refer to specific examples
from the text OR from what
Gavin Hood said about some
of the “Stylistic choices”
made.