This document provides an introduction and overview for a film studies lesson on the film "Tsotsi". It begins with aims and objectives for the lesson, which are to recap prior learning, introduce students to "Tsotsi" as a key text for the exam, discuss themes and issues represented in the film, and analyze it through different critical approaches. Students then complete entrance activities where they summarize how violence was portrayed in previous scenes and discuss its representation and purpose in "Tsotsi". The lesson provides tasks analyzing specific sequences from "Tsotsi" focusing on themes of wealth/poverty and character perspectives. Homework involves research on post-apartheid South Africa and expectations for the film.

1. Entrance Activity
Feedback
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2. Title:
FM4 –
Introduction to ‘Tsotsi’
Wednesday 19th November 2014
A2 Film Studies

3. Why?
Aims & Objectives
• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.
• YOU WILL learn about the 1st
Principle text YOU MUST write
about in the exam Tsotsi.
• YOU WILL also learn about the
themes & issues that are
represented to the spectator
and what other people have to
say about the text (Critically).
• Review the learning.
AO1 and AO2
Apply knowledge and understanding,
including some of the common
critical approaches that characterise
the subject, when exploring and
analysing films and when evaluating
their own creative projects to show
how meanings and responses are
generated.

4. Starter – Re-cap prior learning
YOU MUST write down HOW Violence was represented in the
2 scenes analysed last lesson from:
YOU SHOULD refer to some film language –
verbal, non-verbal, technical codes – in demonstrating your
understanding.

5. Entrance Activity
Feedback
• Are people valued in the environment represented to the spectator?
• Why is Violence used in both texts?
• Are there any similarities in the representation of Violence ?

6. FM4 –
Varieties of Film Experience –
Issues and Debates
Exam
• 2 Hours 45 minutes in length
• Section A and B = 35 Marks
• Section C = 30 Marks
Year 13 – A2 Film Studies – FM4 Exam (50% of A2 Film Studies)
Friday 12th June 2015 – AM

7. FM4 –
Varieties of Film Experience –
Issues and Debates
Section A – 35 Marks
Key: Compare & Contrast

9. Gavin Hood (Director) stated that he “..wanted to transport our audience
into a World of radical contrasts” in terms of establishing the ‘collision’ of
‘wealth and poverty’.

10. Task 1) –
‘Collision’ of ‘wealth and poverty’.
Using the handout you have been provided, YOU MUST establish HOW Gavin Hood’s
ideology is represented in this short sequence from the text.
YOU SHOULD consider HOW the use of the eyeline match between Tsotsi and the skyline
helps to construct this ideology to the spectator.
“What is Tsotsi feeling at this precise moment?”

11. Task 1) –
In line with Gavin Hood’s comments, what are the connotations behind this shot?
‘Collision’ of ‘wealth and poverty’.

12. Feedback

14. Task 2) –

15. Feedback

16. What have you learnt?
YOU MUST write x3 things you have learnt about Tsotsi in the
lesson today.
Extension – YOU COULD write more than x3 things you have
learnt about FM4 – Section A in the lesson today.

17. Homework
AO4 Research some statistics/information regarding
post-apartheid South-Africa – 1-2 Pages – and ‘Tsotsi’
itself
Conclude:
What are your expectations for the film?
Due: Tomorrow – Next Lesson
post-apartheid =
AFTER