Paper 2 section A

35 marks

Up to 5 levels

15 mark for AO1 (Film form and Film terminology) 

       - Are you actually answering the question?

    - narrative

    - structure

    - film techniques

20 marks for critical approach (debating)

    - Context

    - Respresentation of characters

    - Arteurism 

Genre 

    - how is society represented

Arteurism 

    - Do either films have an auteur stamp?

Technology

    - How does technology shape a viewer response

    - Does technology have an impact on how we view characters

    - Does it impact narrative

Pride:

Bulmer and Katz(1959) Uses and gratis factions: Audiences actively select media to use for their own benefits (as opposed tp being passively manipulated). They identified a range of different uses that offered specific pleasures (gratisfactions)

- Education/ inform

- Personal identification

- Social interaction

- Escapism/ entertainment

Long tail theory:

People have access to lesser known film

Patrick Phillips (2003) we can watch from different perspectives of many different selves, each of which gain a particular pleasure from the experience. they are:

- Social self - Gain satisfaction from having a similar response to other spectators, with similar values 

- Cultural self - gets references and meanings generated by the memory of other films, TV, news etc.

- Private self - generates personal and unique meanings based on personal memories

- Desiring self - Brings un/conscious energy and responses that have little to do with surface content

    Can link to Arteur, genre, representation

Rick Altman (1999) Different genres offer pleasures. They are:

    - Visceral - gut instinct, physical reaction

    - Emotional - Understanding the relationship and moral compass to create a feeling of loss/ attachment/ happiness

    - Intellectual working out problems/ enigmas.

Pride:

Visceral: Quotes (Its a show of solidarity. who hates the miners? Thatcher. Who else? The police, the public and the tabloid press. Sound familiar? - Mark

Makes people react and understand the abuse homosexuals face. (preferred meaning)

Emotional: It's just I don't want to be too visible - Joe 

It evokes an emotional response from spectators 

Intellectual: What you gave us ia more than money, its friendship (Dai - thank you speech)

Homosexuals and Miners create a bond and work out how to come together to face the prejudice they face. 

Stuart Hall (Encoding Decoding (1980)

he said AUDIENCES CREATED MEANING FROM A TEXT  IN 3 main different ways. Texts are encoded with an intended meaning.

    Themes:

Police Brutality

Homophobia

Solidarity 

Marginalisation

Neoliberalism (free market capitalism) (idea that businesses can make money at the expense of others)

    - Margaret Thatcher was a neoliberalist

Deviant subculture (link to Stanley Cohen) - Moral panic theory: Miners going against Thatcher was wrong, Gays and lesbians lifestyle was wrong.

Intersectionality: Marginalisation of groups as it is all about equality (discrimination). Based on Age, gender, race, sexuality, class etc.

Grand narrative: over-arching ideas that we believe. Factions that don't believe in homosexuality. 

How might the video link to the characters?

    Intersectionality acknowledges that all of the discriminations exist.

Legislation is understood to protect white women

Legislation is understood to protect black men

Who is being oppressed in pride?

The Gays and Lesbians will have faced homophobia and some will even face class discrimination.

The black Gays and lesbians will have faced racism, sexism, class discrimination and homophobia.

The miners will have faced discrimination such as racism, sexism and class discrimination

    - Ageism

    - Sexism

    - Racism

    - Homophobia

    - Class

    - Ableism

All of them may be present in a persons life.

A young able woman may be less likely to experience sexism in a workplace.

Binary opposition: 

• Heterosexual vs Homosexual

• Men vs Women (women were in domestic roles (cooking etc) in Pride)

• White vs Black

• Working class vs high class

• Beginning of Pride vs End of Pride
• Reserved vs Flamboyant

• Left wing vs Right wing politics
• Arthur Scargill vs Margaret Thatcher

• Lesbians vs Gays
• Lesbians wanted a separate movements as they wanted their own identity.

• Countryside vs City
• Rural vs Urban

• Educated vs Uneducated 

Guardians of the Galaxy:

Using sound in cinema could evoke a passive response

Frankfurt school (1920's- 1930's) Cinema creates an illusion of proximity. The combination of sound and a very large moving image, experienced in a darkened room, with attention focused on the screen.

Christopher Metz (1975) The reason people enjoy films is because they both recognise a character on the screen but the imperfect, distorted reality of the film also creates an idealised, impossible character. This is psychoanalytic theory - the character as a mirror to the spectator. Metz believed the spectator was constructed by the story itself.

Watching a film at the cinema is always a better experience than watching a film on TV. Discuss this view in relation to examples from one British film and one US film you have studied.

Pride VS GOTG:

15 marks = Film form and technologies

20 marks = critical approach (debating)

• Genre
•  Representation
• Bulmer and Katz Uses and gratis factions
• Educate/inform
• Personal Identification
• Social Interaction
• Escapism/ entertainment
• Long tail theory 

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