Today we discuss several news items and their relevance to our course before working on the Action Adventure genre and our Powerpoints.
PREP: View a trailer from the Action Adventure genre.
- Journalist Marie Colvin's death in Syria. We discuss the need for frontline, objective reporting, which in war means going to places torn by chaos, destruction and death, and trying to bear witness. For Colvin, it meant 'trying to find the truth in a sandstorm of propaganda when armies, tribes or terrorists clash.'
- New technologies: Google X ‘plan for mobile phone-glasses’
- Adele's success in the music industry and the reason for staging music awards like the Brits
- BAFTA film nominations: the films and their audiences
PREP: View a trailer from the Action Adventure genre.
- Explain two ways in which the events in the trailer fit the action adventure genre (10 marks)
- Explain how each of the following is used to create effects: the soundtrack, camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene (20 marks)
- Discuss the ways in which people are represented. Make reference to stereotypes (10 marks)
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