Year 10 Film Analysis: Spiderman High School Fight Clip

How are teenagers represented in a different way in this high school fight scene?

Task: 
1. Watch the clip and make notes on how the scene is edited together.
2. Answer the question, using your notes to support your ideas. Write it up as an essay (Word document) and save it in your media folder.

Think about Audience Appeal when considering the question. How does this film appeal to the Target Audience?

How has Peter Parker changed from the first time he appears in his school setting? What similarities are there between the first scene where he stands up to Flash the bully? Why would the audience enjoy seeing him as the action hero? Was does it suggest about what teenagers can do and why would this engage the target audience?

Task: Add these ideas to your answer.

Year 11: Representation in Action Adventure Film

Conduct research into the representation of male and female characters in the action adventure genre

• find five examples of male and five examples of female characters (only one of each can be from the teen/ action adventure/ fantasy/ superhero genre)
• Pick the characters from different films
• Write about

1. costume
2. hair
3. make up
4. props i.e.: gadgets, weapons, vehicles etc 
5. settings

Possible films:

1. The Bourne Ultimatum
2. Skyfall
3. The Hurt Locker
4. Elysium
5. Edge Of Tomorrow
6. Black Hawk Down
7. Lucy
8. Divergent
9. White House Down
10. The Expendables
11. Taken
12. Fury
13. Hercules
14. Noah
15. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
16. Transformers: Age Of Extinction
17. Godzilla
18. Pacific Rim
19. World War Z
20. The Equalizer
21. John Wick
22. The Hunger Games
23. Clash Of The Titans

High School Spiderman

How is Peter Parker being Represented as a typical teenager in this clip? Focus on the elements of Mise en Scene such as:

• Costume
• Sound
• Lighting
• Editing
• Props

Peter Parker: Representation of Teenagers in The Amazing Spiderman

Look at the image and think about how the two main characters are being Represented as teenagers here. Look at costume, setting, facial expressions and body language as well as the props they are holding or are surrounded by. What do these things tell you about the characters? Are they teenage stereotypes?

Task: Write about this image and other still images shots from the scenes in the film where Peter Parker is introduced as a teenager at high school. Include the shots you have chosen.

Representation of Characters

You need to compare how the two characters from the films The Hunger Games and The Amazing Spiderman are represented.

Use the images below to look at how the two characters are presented to the audience. Think about their clothes, hairstyle, attitude and body language to give you a good idea of what the audience are supposed to learn about the characters. When the characters are first introduced, what kind of setting are they in? Look at the things in the scene around them?

To complete this task, you need to focus on Mise-en-scene:

• Costume
• Pose and facial expressions
• Props
• Lighting
• Colour 

Audience Demographics

When discussing audience demographics, you should be able to talk about occupation using this table above. Using this alongside, age and gender, you should be able to assess the audiences' lifestyle based on the type of occupation they have.

Research for 4(a) exam question

4. (a) Compare how and why two programmes were scheduled on different channels.

1. State the day, time and channel of each programme.
2. Who commissioned the programmes?
3. Who produced them?
4. What audience are they aimed at? Why?
5. Why are they on at that time and on that channel? Link to 'type' of comedy and target audience.
6. Are they on after the watershed? Why?
7. Know the audience demographic

You must know:

• day
• time
• channel

for both programmes (Miranda and Bad Education).

Extension work:

Research original scheduling (time of broadcast) for both programmes and any subsequent scheduling that may be different. This is particularly applicable to Miranda that moved from BBC2 to BBC1.
Make sure you account for the change of audience demographic with the change of channel (if applicable). What is it about Miranda that meant the audience changed (or that the BBC's view of the audience changed)?
Account for the reasons why the programmes were broadcast on their particular days. If this changed from series to series comment on this too.