The Amazing Spiderman assessment clips

Hunger Games - controlled assessment clips

Training scene

Yr 10 - assessment part 2

You've looked at how teenagers are represented, stereotypes and anti-stereotypes. You also now need to consider HOW the trailer communicates those ideas to you.

Remember your four areas of textual analysis:

• Mise en scene
• Camera work
• Sound
• Editing

You need to provide at least ONE example of each of these areas in your essay.

Mise en scene:

• Colour
• Clothing and hair and makeup
• Lighting
• Body language and facial expressions
• Setting and props

Camera work:

• Long shot, mid shot, close up, extreme close up
• 180 degree rule
• Over the shoulder shot, two shot, establishing shot
• Pan, tracking, crane, zoom
• Birds eye, high and low angle

Sound:

• Diegetic - anything on screen, belonging to the 'real' world
• Non-diegetic - anything not on screen that characters wouldn't hear
• Music, sound effects, voiceovers

Editing:

• Pace
• Special effects, slo-mo
• Cut, shot reverse shot, cross cutting, jump cuts, fade
• Eye line matching

Yr 10 media - practise essay

Task title:
How are teenagers represented in the Hunger Games trailer?

Think about:

• Individual characters
• Groups of characters (adults/teens)
• Dialogue, clothing, etc.
• Anti stereotypes as well as stereotypes

Have a look at the lesson blog post to re-watch the trailer.