Showing how film techniques are used to develop a significant idea

Learning objective: we are learning to analyse how film techniques are used to develop an idea.
Success criteria:
1. We can identify a significant idea
2. We can describe the film techniques used
3. We can analyse how the techniques develop the idea

We are now getting close to our film analysis assessment.  In the assessment, each student will identify one or more significant ideas in the film, and choose a scene to closely analyse how the idea is developed.

One idea we have agreed on in Day Trip is that in the first tunnel scene, Willy is disconnected and isolated from everyone around him.

We have identified the following techniques from the tunnel scene:

• shot types - close up
• slow motion
• music
• lighting
• acting - facial expression + gesture
• use of silence
• setting
• costume

We are now going to write paragraphs analysing how these techniques develop the idea of Willy's disconnection from the world around him.

Some useful sentence starters include:

(insert technique) is used to emphasise that....

I think the director chose this technique to focus our attention on...

The audience is invited to sympathise with...