Transcript Lesson 47 Activity 2.24: reading film, day b

LESSON 47
ACTIVITY 2.24: READING
FILM, DAY B
Lesson Goals
Analyze how an
author or
director achieves
specific ef fects
and purposes
through literar y/
cinematic
devices
Interpret text by
analyzing the
author’s purpose
behind literar y/
cinematic
choices
Craf t an
analytical
statement,
suppor t it with
evidence from
the text, and
include
reflective
commentar y to
explain
interpretations
BE IN YOUR HOME GROUPS
BOOKS OPEN TO PAGE 166
Review your notes and discussions from
the last viewing of “Scissorhands” for 4
minutes
We will watch scene 5-13 today (less
than 30 minutes)
AFTER VIEWING…
 Discuss the questions on page 166 with your home group.
 Come to a group consensus for each answer
 Why do the townspeople welcome Edward so quickly into their
lives?
 How does the town seem to change after Edward’s arrival?
 Kim’s reaction to Edward is played for humor, but in what way
is hers the most natural or realistic response?
 What hints in this segment indicate that all will not work out
well?
ANALYSIS OF KEY SCENE
 Divide up the cinematic techniques at the bottom of 166
amongst your group
 You will focus on your one cinematic technique in the key
scene about to be shown again
 Take notes of interesting or ef fective examples of your
technique
 Think about what triggers Edward’s flashback, and how the
music, lighting, and tone are dif ferent in the flashback
 Think about what the cookie may symbolize 
 Now discuss with your group your findings.
 Make predictions about the story’s outcome as a group
ANALY TICAL STATEMENTS
 Now each of you will create an analytical statement with
textual support and reflective commentary about one of the
cinematic elements in today’s showing
 VOCABULARY NOTEBOOKS!
 Commentary—your explanation of the importance or relevance of your
example and the way your example supports your analysis
 The key word is?
COMMENTARY
 Your reflective commentary is going to come after your
example of the purpose of the technique
 Think of your statement like a mathematical equation
 Cinematic Element + Purpose + Evidence + Commentary
 Your commentary shows your understanding of the
relationship between your example of the element used to the
purpose of the element itself
 Reflective Commentary = So What ; the “why we care”
FILL IN THE BLANKS: ANALY TICAL
STATEMENT
 Tim Burton, in Edward Scissorhands, use
_____________________ in order to
___________________________________________________.
For example,
____________________________________________.
 ______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________.
FILL IN THE BLANKS: ANALY TICAL
STATEMENT
 Tim Burton, in Edward Scissorhands, use
_____________________ in order to
____________________________________________.
For example, _______________________________
____________________________________________.
_________________________________________________
_______________________________________._________
__________________________________________.______
EXIT TICKET & HOMEWORK
 Homework: Activity 2.25, Director’s Chair: Visualizing
a Scene
 Using the dialogue on page 168 from Edward Scissorhands,
create a storyboard on pages 169-171. Roughly sketch out
what the dialogue scene should look like.
 Include your descriptions of the music/sound, dialogue,
lighting, and framing.
 On a separate sheet of paper, answer the reflection questions
at the bottom of page 171.
 Entire activity will be turned in for credit finishing Reading Day
C!
 Tim Burton, in Edward Scissorhands, zooms in in order to
show the importance of a certain shot, person, etc. For
example, when Burton zooms in on the cookie held in front of
the robot, it shows the idea the Inventor had to create Edward.
The cookie symbolizes the ideas of love, and the Inventor
decides to create Edward so that he has somebody to love.