YEAR 12 HOMEWORK

1. LAST CHANCE to improve research and planning posts - verbal feedback will be provided to everyone by Friday. Continue to ad construction evidence to blogs and keep up with journal posts - blog will be marked again Friday 3rd March
2. TV Drama homework from half term to be completed by Monday 27th Feb click here 
3. Make sure you have been reading the Section C film exam revision notes - keep going over them we will return to this week commencing 6th March as your mock exam will be a question from Section C remember you have all the past exam questions
4. Redraft/finish the essay you did in class for Section C (Film) at the end of last half term Friday 3rd March

Essay feedback

Question: How far do the film opening sequences of the films you have studied for this topic introduce key messages and values?

• ·         Nobody completed the essay – if you did I could tell it was rushed so the second half wasn’t as good as the first
•        For the most part everyone followed the ‘formula’ for the introduction and so they were quite good (Shanie’s was very good)
• ·         BOTH of the films are about crime this section of your exam is called ‘Living with Crime’ so therefore when discussing key messages and values you HAVE to discuss elements that link back to the overall crime theme e.g. some good point made about the effects of crime and the binary opposites of old vs. young
• ·         Some over simplified references to ‘youth’ – you need to discuss in detail how they young people at the start of Harry Brown are represented as marginalised youth and being a ‘Family’ in contrast the ‘family’ representation portrayed in Wild Bill
• ·         A minority of people were able to successfully discuss the opening of Wild Bill referring in detail to how the crime theme was set up from the start with the sound of keys and jail cells opening – others skipped this fact and went straight to talking about the boys
• ·         It’s important to discuss how the audience may feel while watching and even how you are feeling (but not to strongly)
• ·         DON’T JUST MAKE POINTS that show how good you are at micro analysis LINK your points back to the social-political issues that the film is trying to portray to the audience
• ·         Most of you made the point that enigmas are presented in opening BUT didn’t refer to any that could link to the messages and values