Follow directions on ppt and worksheets
Watch the first 4 min of these film clips through the lens of a camera: shots, angles and movements.
List as any words and ideas that come to mind
How was suspense and tension shown or enhanced?
Write what the effects are on the audience and how the director achieved them?
For a general understanding of how the camera is focused on the director’s intent and purpose - focusing on visual textual purposes.
– The Birds extract and examples of how different types of foreshadowing are used by writers.
Notice how the director applied the camera – the angles, shots and movements as well as the lighting/colours to create effects in the setting – his visual text
Look out for any foreshadowing the director used either subtly or directly.
While you're watching:
Write down any details – words or ideas you notice about the setting.
When and where did the director fit in the foreshadowing?
How did the camera angles, shots, movements and lighting or colours aid in setting the scene and achieve foreshadowing? Remember it’s a ‘visual text’ the director uses.
Extract from Jaws By Peter Benchley for Tone, Atmosphere, and Mood in the Setting.
View how a storyline changes through another character's perspective
You have a worksheet with several extracts. Work out which narrative perspective it is and why you think this way.
Your final task is to choose 2 extracts from your worksheets and rewrite them from the 1st to the 3rd person or the 3rd to the 1st (one of each) making it clear to the reader which perspective you are using.
His name is Okwe and he is a porter in a large hotel. One night, after the guests have oddly checked out of their rooms, he is called to fix a leaky toilet ...
Okwe’s dilemma: He is living in London illegally, despite being a highly educated fully trained doctor from Africa. He cannot work legally for fear of being sent back to his home country – this would mean death!
You are Okwe, it will be written in the 1st person.
Plan your plot, increase the tension and suspense, use appropriate language.