Spectatorship and Film

Starter

• Key to spectatorship is the following idea:

EXPECTATION Vs RESPONSE

Looking at the film posters in front of you, comment on your expectations from this films WITHOUT APPLYING YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR CONTENT!

James Bond

Clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouygpJqUAv8&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DouygpJqUAv8&has_verified=1

What type of text is this?

So what is the preferred reading?

How might we analyse this clip with a negotiated or oppositional reading?

Task

- Group One: Intellectual film- Group Two: Provocative film- Group Three: Throw Away/Spectacular film

In your groups, choose a film within your category and offer the three different readings from within that film.

STARTER

Think of two films which immersed you, and two which were a clearer construct

Central Imagining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vo3INoJZLA&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2Vo3INoJZLA&has_verified=1

Creates ‘FEELING’

This is a physical response.

This is translated to the spectator by the director (textual)

It uses micro elements to incite the feeling

Watching the clip below, comment on how the director has used micro elements to make us feel the character’s pain.

A-Central ImaginingThe difference is we feel less, but can imagine more

Rather than a physical response, we have an emotional response

A-Central imagining is reliant on the individual spectator’s experiences (extra-textual)

Discuss, as a group, our individual responses to the following clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOzR5Jnd6bU

Your Task

• On your blogs, create a spectatorship section...

• Now choose four film clips - two Central and two A-Central.

• Underneath each clip, write down the micro elements the director utilised, or, your personal response to the clip.

• Be prepared to present at the end of the lesson.