Essay criteria

Here is the criteria for a top mark essay. In your conclusion, you need to make sure that you have referred to some of these things in your essay.

Tomorrowland clips

Consider how the director ensures Casey is represented in an appealing way to the audience in these action and narrative sequences from the film. How do they meet the conventions of action adventure and show the film to be a hybrid crossover with the sci-fi genre?
Choose your own clip to include in your film analysis section in your essay. Remember to make notes before you write up your ideas under the headings:

• Camera movements
• Sound
• Editing
• Mise-en-scene

Preparing for the essay - Tomorrowland

Explore the film ready for writing your essay.

How are you going to show detailed and thorough knowledge of the texts studied?

Action Adventure Genre:
You need to make notes on why Tomorrowland meets the conventions of the action adventure genre. To do this consider the narrative sequences in the film alongside the main action sequences.

Narrative sequences

• Casey's background and belief in Space travel and innovation. Her link to this through her father and her rebellious streak.
• The adventure or quest to find out the truth about the pin.
• Relationships with the other two main characters
• Comedy tone

Action sequences

• The pin revealing the futuristic city
• The shop explosion
• Frank's house

Social and Cultural Message:
What could you consider about the social and cultural message behind the film? Why are Casey amd Frank supposed to be special?

Institution:
This is film is produced by Disney and is linked commercially to the Disney theme park. How does the film link with the ethos of the Disney company?

Representation:
The main protagonist is a female teenager with a sibling. Does this mean the film is only designed for a younger target audience? Her relationship with her father would appeal to teenagers as they can relate to to her life and relationships. What other rlements makes the film appeal to a broader target audience when compared with The Maze Runner?

Film analysis:
How are you going to use film terminology to explain how the film achieves all you have commented on above. You need to use the film as evidence to support your points, Use your film analysis skills to discuss the evidence confidently and in a sophisticated style,

Compare how Teenagers are Represented in two Action Adventure Films: The Amazing Spiderman and The Hunger Games

As the final piece of work, you are expected to write an essay.
This essay is a mix of film analysis skills and knowledge about how audiences are sold these kinds of Action Adventure films.

Task: Using your notes about the clips we have analysed in class, and the research looking at the main teenage characters (how they are dressed and represented), you should be able to write about how Teenagers are represented in The Hunger Games and The Amazing Spiderman.

1. Find all of your research.

• Representation notes based on the two main characters
• Narrative that appeals to the target audience
• Film analysis notes based on the clips below

2. Look at the title and plan what you intend to write about (use the example structure to help you).

Clips to use for Film Analysis

Year 11 Edge of Tomorrow Clip: Getting off the Beach

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.

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.