English -Movies That Move You - Compulsory Semester 1

Unit of Study:Movies That Move You - Compulsory Semester 1

Brief Description: In this area of study students will analyse film techniques and explore their own abilities as filmmakers. Horror, romance, comedy, sci-fi, action, foreign films - what do you enjoy watching and what messages or themes do these films convey? What are the directors' intentions? The screenwriter's messages? The actors' portrayals? The morals embedded within the film?

In Term 1, students will study film and cinematic techniques and begin to unpick the messages behind famous scenes, scores and scripts. 

Scaffolding Learning

At the conclusion of this unit of study students will have: 

An understanding of key knowledge

• Students will gain developed skills in analysis and understanding of key film techniques. 

• Students will learn how to apply film metalanguage to explore their own interpretation of a film and its hidden meanings. 

• Students will be able to describe, explore and analyse the mes-en-scene of film stills and scenes. 

• Students will gain the language to challenge preconceived ideas and attitudes towards different patterns of thinking. 

• Students will understand the spread of conspiracy theories and how they can influence different groups of people. 

• Students will be able to critically analyse the logic behind various conspiracy theories. 

Attained these key skills 

• Students will have a developed understanding of how to closely analyse symbols, motifs and ideas in visual texts.

• Students will have a greater ability to analyse features of film texts, and make relevant comparisons with other texts.

• Students will learn the metalanguage needed to explore and analyse film. 

• Students will be able to interpret various opinions. 

• Students explore various moral and ethical positions behind different ways of thinking.

• Students will have the language to be able to investigate and interrogate various theories and opinions

Demonstrated the Victorian curriculum standards and capabilities

1. Reading & Viewing
   1. Language for interaction: (VCELA457)
   2. Text structure and organisation: (VCELA458)
   3. Expressing and developing ideas: (VCELA459)
   4. Literature and context: (VCELT460)
   5. Responding to literature: (VCELT461), (VCELT461), (VCELT462)
   6. Examining literature: (VCELT463), (VCELT464), (VCELT465)
   7. Texts in context: (VCELY466)
   8. Interpreting, analysing, evaluating: (VCELY467), (VCELY469) 
2. Writing
   1. Text structure and organisation: (VCELA470), (VCELA471)
   2. Expressing and Developing Ideas: (VCELA473), (VCELA474)
   3. Phonics and word knowledge: (VCELA475) 
3. Speaking & Listening
   1. Language variation and change: (VCELA482)
   2. Language for interaction: (VCELA483)
   3. Interacting with others: (VCELY485), (VCELY486)

Assessment Tasks

Students will be required to complete the following assessment tasks:

• Written analysis of a film chosen by the English team

• An annotated folio

• An oral presentation 

Additional learning opportunities

• Potential visit to ACMI 

Resources

• Workbook, pens and highlighters
• Exercise book and small exercise book for research and annotations
• No text is required to be purchased by families.

Pathways

This unit of study could provide students with the following pathway.