This document provides homework assignments for a film studies class analyzing the film City of God. Students are asked to:
1) Finish writing a paragraph and further research the film's location and social representations.
2) Analyze how the film represents the ideology that the city's outskirts embody "war, hatred and chaos" by supporting an argument about one of the film's key scenes with evidence.
3) Recap narrative theory and consider how other narrative devices are used in the film. Analyze how the camera and violence are used to represent human misery.
4) Write a short review applying Stephen M. Hunt's ideology that "war, hatred and chaos are the order of the day" to
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Complete and submit Part I in your first week of class. In Week Two, complete Parts II & III after viewing a film of your choice from the Film List located under your Week One materials. Submit your completed worksheet in Week Two.
Part I: Beginning to Analyze Film
To compete Part I, choose a movie you have viewed in the past (this does not have to be from the Film List ). Review the following example in the table and then complete your information by inserting the title of your movie and completing the entries for time and place, costume, and set design, writing in complete sentences. For your final entry, describe the atmosphere created by the combination of film elements discussed in Ch. 1 of Film and how they contributed to your liking or disliking of the movie. Submit Part I in Week One.
Movie
Time and Place
Costume
Set Design
Describe the atmosphere created by the combination of film elements and how they contributed to your liking or disliking of the movie.
Example Movie
Alien, 1979
Example Entry
The movie is set in the far-off future. The movie takes place in space on board a spaceship and some action occurs on the surface of a planet.
Example Entry
The characters often appear in grubby, casual clothing and what appear to be worn-out uniforms. Also, they appear in space suits when they journey to the planet.
Example Entry
The sets looks very high-tech and run-down at the same time. In some areas there are very streamlined and modern-looking set pieces, and in other areas pipes or tubing can be seen running along the walls.
Example Entry
The overall atmosphere is gritty and realistic creating the sense that this is a lived-in world. The atmosphere of the planet they visit is creepy because the shapes of the set seems alive. The characters are all acting realistically, especially the character of Lambert who is terrified. The characters fit into this world well, looking sweaty and with no visible make-up. The elements combined contributed to my enjoyment by making the action feel like it was really happening. Also, the alien design was nightmarish.
<Title of your movie viewed in the past and the year it was released>
Part II: The Technical Language of Film
Select a film from the Film Listand view itbefore completing Parts II & III. Complete the following entries in the space provided by answering each question as it pertains to the movie you selected from Film List. Each answer must be at least 50 words in length and written in complete sentences. Submit Parts I, II, & III in Week Two.
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Your Response
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2. Homework
• FINISH the paragraph
• Using your ‘City of God’ Study Guide, research the Location
& Social Representations even further and produce a 1-page
overview of your findings.
Due: TODAY – Tuesday 6th January
3. Using the worksheet provided, YOU MUST answer the Question in reference to ONE of the
key scenes we have analysed today and support your argument with ONE piece of Evidence
– Verbal, Non-Verbal and/or Technical Code.
Extension – YOU COULD refer to BOTH scenes we have analysed today and write x2
Paragraphs.
“It is a zone beyond the civilized city, which, as the
city's inverted, carnivalesque image, makes the
very idea of civilization possible”
How does the text represent this ideology?
PEA Paragraph Task –
Feedback – Homework!
4. Title:
City of God – “War, Hatred and Chaos”
Date:
Tuesday 6th January 2015
FM4:
Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates
5. Why?
Aims & Objectives
• YOU WILL re-cap prior
learning.
• YOU WILL assess HOW
“War, Hatred & Chaos”
is represented in the text
and the impact this has
on 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.
6. Starter Task - Narrative
- Using your mini white boards, re-cap prior learning by writing down HOW
Syd Field’s Narrative Theory applies:
“representing life in a difficult urban environment”
Act 1) – The Set-Up
Act 2) – The Confrontation
Act 3) – The Resolution
Extension – YOU COULD consider (See Page 49 – 51 of your study guide) HOW other
Narrative devices are applied to the text – for example Diegetic and Non-Diegetic insertions
7 minutes
8. The verb “To shoot” connotes…..
YOU MUST finish the sentence by focusing on EITHER:
• HOW the camera and the Gun are symbols of representing ‘human misery’ (Walter
Chaw) in the text
• The intentions of Fernando Meirelles on representing life in the favellas
• HOW Violence is a main theme in City of God
Page 98 - 106
7 minutes
9. Theory to consider for the exam!
“In this very earthly City of
God, war, hatred and chaos
are the order of the day”.
Stephen M. Hart
(2004)
10. Groups
Group 1) Group 2)
Beth Jordyn
Connor Keir
Joe R Jamilla
Chris
Scene 1) Scene 2)
11. AO1 Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of film as an
audio-visual form of creative expression together with its contexts
of production and reception and of the diversity in film making
across different historical periods and locations.
Based on the THEORY you have just written down in your exercise books from Stephen M.
Hunt, YOU MUST consider:
What challenges does this text present to the viewer?
YOU MUST answer this question based around the scene that has been provided to you!
In pairs, based on the objective outlined, denote what is presented in your scene – then
after 10 minutes, swap with the pair next to you and analyse the other scene.
12. What have you learnt?
1. ? Which character embodies Stephen M. Hunt’s ideology of
“War, Hatred and Chaos” to the spectator and why?
13. Homework
1) Write a short review of how the text as a
whole conforms to Stephen M. Hunt’s
ideology (250 – 500 words)
2) Research 1 theory that a particular character
from ‘City of God’ conforms to and give a
brief reason WHY.
Due: Thursday 8th January – Period 4
