For this area in the course we will be looking at the films Pan’s labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006) and Wild Tales (Damien Szifron, 2014). These films have been chosen since one was made in Europe,, and the other was made outside of Europe. Our assessment objectives are to demonstrate an understanding of elements of film, and to apply knowledge and understanding of elects of film to analyse films.
We must write about both of these films but we do not have to make any comparisons. We will spend 30 minutes writing about each film. We will be focusing on key sequences in these films, and write relevant paragraphs about the key elements of film form in said sequences. We need to use technical terminology correctly and as much as possible, and make frequent reference to the director and their intention/ affect of film on the audience.
We will spend 60 minutes on four different areas of the films, key elements, contexts, aesthetics and representation. We will also do a 40 mark question for each film, and we get to choose the one we do as well. We discuss visual style or representation for each film.
The core study areas that will be assessed are key elements, contexts and aesthetics and representation. There are no additional study areas for component 2a.
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