AS91480

AS91480Respond critically to significant aspects of visual and/or

oral text(s) through close viewing and/or listening, supported by evidence

INTERNAL 3 Credit

WHAT DO I DO….?

• Intent of the standard This standard requires that students respond critically to significant aspects of unfamiliar visual or oral texts.

• What students need to do to meet the standard

Respond critically, making evaluative interpretations and judgements.

Make detailed explorations and considerations of significant aspects of texts.Use specific and relevant detail to support interpretations and judgements.

(convincingly/perveptively)

1. PICK YOUR DIRECTOR and KNOW a little bit about the kind of movies they tend to make…

The Coen Brothers• Quirky/Off-beat characters• Funny situations• Focus on normal people in

situations which are not necessarily normal….

Steven Spielberg• Grand-Scale Epics• Morally good lead

characters dying• Orchestral music scores

Quentin Tarantino• Ultra-Violence as a

visual effect• The seedy

underbelly of society/people

• Soundtracks

2. Pick your KEY EXCERPTS…

• They must be IMPORTANT in the context of the film’s narrative…

OR• They must be good examples of the director’s

SIGNATURE STYLE…OR• They must be excerpts which carry a MESSAGE

which is relevant generally, outside of the film…

DUE ON FRIDAY!!See board for details

Let’s look at Undefeated…

OVER-ARCHING IDEAS

• First Game of the Season…• The Manassas Tigers players struggle: socially,

financially, academically, personally…• Coach Courtney is a guiding light for these boys…• Hope, promise and expectation….• These are replaced with encouragement and pride…

TECHNIQUE/FEATURE EMPLOYED…

Describe HOW… Explain WHY directors do this…

VOICEOVER (diegetic sound)

Coach Courtney explaining his hopes for the upcoming game, as he drives to the rival school’s grounds

INSIGHT – the DIRECTORS are showing the AUDIENCE Coach Courtney’s own opinions about why this first game of the season is important…

VOICE COMMENTARY(non-diegetic sound)

Media commentators talk through a montage of the game’s highlights, starts to dim as the Tigers start to lose…

DIRECTORS are creating ATMOSPHERE. Also showing AUDIENCE that despite being a high school game, it is a big deal in these communities…

MUSIC SOUNDTRACK(non-diegetic sound)

Lead-up to the game: a steady military-style drumbeat building to a crescendo that culminates with kick-off.

DIRECTORS are deliberately creating expectation and buzz through music which is traditionally associated with a rigid and disciplined organisation (MIRRORING the Tigers’ preparations), CLIMAXING in kick-off…

MUSIC SOUNDTRACK(non-diegetic sound)

As team starts to lose: organ music overtakes voice commentary, slow and melodic…

DIRECTORS change TONE to match the failure of the Tigers.

MONOLOGUE(diegetic sound)

Coach Courtney lifting his team after their loss…

Coach Courtney is this team’s beacon. This story is his almost more than his team’s. The DIRECTORS are portraying him as an eloquent and inspiring man.

TECHNIQUE/FEATURE EMPLOYED…

Describe HOW… Explain WHY…

DOLLY SHOT (long shot)

As Coach Courtney drives down to St George’s Independent School the camera catches the houses that he passes while he talks…

MONTAGE of assorted shots

As Manassas Tigers bus drives into St George’s the camera shows supporters and general pre-match build-up…

LONG SHOT As match begins a longshot of floodlights, set against a darkening sky is shown…

MIDSHOT Coach Courtney delivers his end-of-game talk to his players…

LONGSHOT/FOCUS-OUT and FADE-OUT

Final shot in sequence is of the same floodlights at the end of the game.

IDEAFILM

JARGON

SPECIFIC REFERENCES

ANALYSE CRITICALLY WHY USED

(DIRECTOR/AUDIENCE RELATIONSHIP)

EVALUATIVE JUDGEMEN

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Pulling it all together…

The directors of the 2011 Academy Award winning documentary, “Undefeated” use the first game of the season to allow the audience the chance to see the Manassas Tigers front up with hope, promise and expectation. In the face of defeat Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin portray Coach Courtney as a guiding light for his players, a man who encourages his boys to take pride in themselves, despite their disappointing loss.

Talking about sound and using critical analysis…

As Coach Courtney drives up to St George’s Independent School, Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin employ voiceover to give their audience insight into the significance that this man places on what is the first game of the season. Courtney wants his boys to “rise above inner-city knock” and keep their ‘heads up’ under pressure. He contends that teams such as his struggle to absorb such stress, his desire is for his team to strike first and put pressure on the opposition. In the lead-up to the game’s kick-off, the director’s use a music soundtrack which involves a military-style snare drum which culminates to a crescendo which climaxes at kick-off. The directors have a twofold reason for employing this kind of diegetic sound. Firstly they are using a conventional means of deliberately creating expectation and buzz with a steady drumbeat. Secondly the directors are implying that the Manassas Tigers are going into battle, they are highly trained and disciplined soldiers about to engage in war. This allusion is created by using music which is traditionally associated with a rigid and disciplined organisation. Though the audience sees the game fall away from the Tigers almost immediately, the directors do an effective job of portraying these players as a team who could be the match of St George…

What about EVALUATIVE JUDGEMENT…?The directors, Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin have some very real goals in mind when they portray the Manassas Tigers’ first game of the season against St George’s. They wish to convey that hope and expectation that we all feel when we begin an endeavour which involves competition of some sort. The director’s prime goal however is to convey to their audience the measure of Coach Courtney as a man of substance and a man of integrity. He is the star of this sequence and as we listen to him monologue about character in the face of defeat and not victory to his players he see that Lindsay and Martin are telling us that regardless of a person’s situation, be-it financial, social, academic, personal – people develop their own senses of self-worth and integrity not through ‘character-building’ episodes of hardship, but through the support and guidance of others who are there to help you when times are tough. The directors show us that it is the easiest thing in the world to simply give-up, but when you have someone who does not make this an option, many people rise to the occasion.This is a laudable ideal but the over-riding fact that poverty of circumstances trumps all is still too real, even in this sequence. The school which the director’s portray as a more upwardly mobile one, with less kids of colour, is the school that prevails. By the same notion, despite the best role models and the best intentions, those people with less have to work much harder to reach their goals, than those with more. Our society is not a level playing field and it never has been.