The document provides assessment objectives and questions about the film Gomorrah and its representation of the Camorra criminal organization. It asks the student to watch an interview segment and answer questions that address two assessment objectives: 1) Demonstrate knowledge of film as an audio-visual form of creative expression and its contexts of production and reception. 2) Apply knowledge and critical approaches when exploring, analyzing films, and evaluating their own creative work to show how meanings and responses are generated. The questions probe the student's understanding of how the film appeals to both emotion and reason, generates various meanings and responses, and realistically represents life in the Camorra organization based on examples from the text and interview.

1. 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 filmmaking across different historical periods and locations.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwBjy6Cqeho
You must watch the interview segment on Roberto Saviano (Author of the Book) and answer the questions
below, which address the 2 AO’s (Assessment Objectives) you will be marked on in the exam next summer.
AO2
1) According to the Lawrence Pollard, Roberto Saviano has managed to:
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- What meanings and responses are generated as a result of this verbal code?
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AO2
2) He has also, very similarly to another critic (Michael Covino) managed to:
“s_ _ p a _ _ _ the g _ _ m _ _ r t _ _ _ s _ o _ _ _ s _ _ _ _ to the su _ _ e _ t”
- What meanings and responses are generated as a result of this verbal code?
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AO1
3)
- How does Saviano’s comment represent the controversy surrounding this text and has it worked as a form of
creative expression?
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AO2
4)
In relation to your experience of consuming the film, how did it appeal to “the heart and the head”? Support your
answer by referring to a key scene/example from the text itself
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AO2
5) Lawrence Pollard describes the film as a “Gangster film unlike any other”
- What meanings and responses are generated as a result of this verbal code? – Support your answer with
what Roberto Saviono says directly after this.
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AO2
6)
What is the “reality” of life in the Camorra, according to Roberto Saviano? Support your answer with examples:
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AO1 and AO2
7)
According to Mark Kermode (respected film critic), how are the characters represented in one word?
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Do you agree?
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AO1 and AO2
8) In your opinion, why do you think the Academy did NOT vote for the film to be nominated in the “Best Foreign
Film” category?
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