Notetaking scaffold

Your big question is: How does the creator/director of your chosen movie position the audience to think a certain way about a character/s or an idea?

Characters – consider:
• From whose perspective is the story told and how?
• Archetypes
• Narrator
• dominant voice/s
• Silent voices
• Do the characters represent groups within society wider section of society
e.g. women, African American people, Indigenous people, Catholics, the
working class, a stereotype etc.

Plotline – consider:
 Details of the crime
 Clues and red herrings
 Set-up, Conflict, Resolution.
 Personalised
 False trails
 Twists, clues
 Cliff-hangers
 How is law and order usually restored at the end?

How is society reflected? – consider:

 themes e.g. good versus evil; Justice versus Injustice, Guilt and Innocence, Moral
conflict
 contemporary issues

Setting – consider:
  physical - is a detailed, specific and plausibly realistic setting is presented
 A microcosm of society
 Social snapshot
 Well researched and accurate
 Mood
 Changes in setting
 How does the setting contribute to the narrative?

Context – Consider:
What is the context of your film? – e.g. WWII, the 1950s in New York, The Cold
War, etc.

Director - Research into the director - consider

 What does/did the director say about creating your movie?
 choices the director made
 a perspective they wanted to reveal
 inspiration from a real-life crime?
What do you believe the movie’s director is trying to show the audience/encourage
the audience to understand about the story?

Has the director been successful?

Film techniques are your evidence for your ideas. You must analyse and integrate film techniques throughout your presentation. This may include camera
shots, camera angles, lighting, dialogue, mise-en-scene, costuming, setting, music, sound effects etc.
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