AS91480

1. AS91480 Respond critically to significant aspects of visual and/or oral text(s) through close viewing and/or listening, supported by evidence INTERNAL 3 Credit WHAT DO I DO….?

2. Intent of the standard  This standard requires that students respond critically to significant aspects of unfamiliar visual or oral texts. • What students need to do to meet the standard  Respond critically, making evaluative interpretations and judgements. Make detailed explorations and considerations of significant aspects of texts. Use specific and relevant detail to support interpretations and judgements. (convincingly/perveptively)

3. 1. PICK YOUR DIRECTOR and KNOW a little bit about the kind of movies they tend to make… • The Coen Brothers • Quirky/Off-beat characters • Funny situations • Focus on normal people in situations which are not necessarily normal…. • Quentin Tarantino • Ultra-Violence as a visual effect • The seedy underbelly of society/people • Soundtracks • Steven Spielberg • Grand-Scale Epics • Morally good lead characters dying • Orchestral music scores

4. 2. Pick your KEY EXCERPTS… • They must be IMPORTANT in the context of the film’s narrative… OR • They must be good examples of the director’s SIGNATURE STYLE… OR • They must be excerpts which carry a MESSAGE which is relevant generally, outside of the film…

5. DUE ON FRIDAY!! See board for details

6. Let’s look at Undefeated…

7. OVER-ARCHING IDEAS • First Game of the Season… • The Manassas Tigers players struggle: socially, financially, academically, personally… • Coach Courtney is a guiding light for these boys… • Hope, promise and expectation…. • These are replaced with encouragement and pride…

11. Pulling it all together… The directors of the 2011 Academy Award winning documentary, “Undefeated” use the first game of the season to allow the audience the chance to see the Manassas Tigers front up with hope, promise and expectation. In the face of defeat Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin portray Coach Courtney as a guiding light for his players, a man who encourages his boys to take pride in themselves, despite their disappointing loss.

12. Talking about sound and using critical analysis… As Coach Courtney drives up to St George’s Independent School, Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin employ voiceover to give their audience insight into the significance that this man places on what is the first game of the season. Courtney wants his boys to “rise above inner-city knock” and keep their ‘heads up’ under pressure. He contends that teams such as his struggle to absorb such stress, his desire is for his team to strike first and put pressure on the opposition. In the lead-up to the game’s kick-off, the director’s use a music soundtrack which involves a military-style snare drum which culminates to a crescendo which climaxes at kick-off. The directors have a twofold reason for employing this kind of diegetic sound. Firstly they are using a conventional means of deliberately creating expectation and buzz with a steady drumbeat. Secondly the directors are implying that the Manassas Tigers are going into battle, they are highly trained and disciplined soldiers about to engage in war. This allusion is created by using music which is traditionally associated with a rigid and disciplined organisation. Though the audience sees the game fall away from the Tigers almost immediately, the directors do an effective job of portraying these players as a team who could be the match of St George…

13. What about EVALUATIVE JUDGEMENT…? The directors, Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin have some very real goals in mind when they portray the Manassas Tigers’ first game of the season against St George’s. They wish to convey that hope and expectation that we all feel when we begin an endeavour which involves competition of some sort. The director’s prime goal however is to convey to their audience the measure of Coach Courtney as a man of substance and a man of integrity. He is the star of this sequence and as we listen to him monologue about character in the face of defeat and not victory to his players he see that Lindsay and Martin are telling us that regardless of a person’s situation, be-it financial, social, academic, personal – people develop their own senses of self-worth and integrity not through ‘character-building’ episodes of hardship, but through the support and guidance of others who are there to help you when times are tough. The directors show us that it is the easiest thing in the world to simply give-up, but when you have someone who does not make this an option, many people rise to the occasion. This is a laudable ideal but the over-riding fact that poverty of circumstances trumps all is still too real, even in this sequence. The school which the director’s portray as a more upwardly mobile one, with less kids of colour, is the school that prevails. By the same notion, despite the best role models and the best intentions, those people with less have to work much harder to reach their goals, than those with more. Our society is not a level playing field and it never has been.