This document provides context and background information about the film Tsotsi and post-apartheid South Africa. It begins with an entrance activity that asks students to recall what apartheid means. It then discusses the challenges facing post-apartheid South Africa, including high unemployment, lack of access to electricity, and low life expectancy. It also provides statistics about Soweto township near Johannesburg, which has a large Black population living in poverty. The document asks students to consider how the opening scene of Tsotsi challenges audiences' perspectives on the worlds it represents. It includes tasks for students to answer questions about the film in detail and lists what they have learned.

1. Entrance Activity
Feedback
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3. Gavin Hood (Director) stated that he “..wanted to transport our audience
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4. 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: TODAY!
post-apartheid =
AFTER

5. Title:
FM4 –
Post-apartheid South Africa, Poverty, Crime,
Social division
Thursday 20th November 2014
A2 Film Studies

6. Why?
Aims & Objectives
• YOU WILL re-cap prior
learning.
• YOU WILL learn about the
zeitgeist surrounding Tsotsi.
• YOU WILL learn about
‘Apartheid’ and the
Historical context
surrounding the film.
• 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.

7. Starter – Assess prior learning
What does ‘APARTHEID’ stand for?

8. Feedback
‘APARTHEID’ =
• Afrikaans for “Separateness” and the “state of being apart”
• Established in 1948
• Nelson Mandela released from prison in 1990 (after serving 27 years for
attempting to over throw the state), however Apartheid did not officially end until
he was elected in 1994, despite the ban being lifted in February 1990.

9. Post-Apartheid South Africa
Impact on society in South Africa?
• 25% unemployment
• Only 85% of households in South Africa have access to electricity
• Average life expectatncy is 49 – the 2nd lowest in the World

10. SOWETO
(SOuth Western TOwnship)
• 1.2 million People live in this district of
Johannesburg
• 98% of the population are Black
• On average, Soweto natives earn 6 ½
times less than the average South
African.

11. How far does the scene you have studied for this topic
challenge the audience, generating debate
about the worlds they represent?
'Tsotsi' Opening Scene

12. Task 1) –
How far does the scene you have studied for this topic challenge the audience,
generating debate
about the worlds they represent?
YOU MUST answer the question above in relation to the scene you are about to watch from
Tsotsi through a PEA paragraph.
YOU SHOULD look out for certain film language devices – mise-en-scene, sound and
cinematography – that “challenge the audience” about the “Worlds they represent”.

13. Feedback

14. What have you learnt?
YOU MUST write x3 facts/areas you did NOT KNOW at the
beginning of this lesson.
Extension – YOU COULD write more than x3 things you have
learnt about FM4 – Section A in the lesson today.

15. Homework
Research a review:
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2006/mar/17/2
Pick out 3 Verbal codes that help establish the themes
& issues represented in the film –
YOU COULD research the Director and his intentions
for the film as well.
Due: Tomorrow – Next Lesson