We started out by writing a list of different tones for each scene. To do this we mostly used the list of tone words Mr. Rivers provided on Google Classroom which is very useful to find more specific words. "No Country for Old Men" was foreboding and sinister as a result of the music, color of Anton's clothing which was dark in contrast to most of the other character's clothing and the setting and just the tones of the characters within the scene itself. Anton, being very rude by just putting the crumpling up the wrapper and putting it in just right on the counter while it slowly and loudly regained its shape added a curt tone to the scene. "Threat Level Midnight" was more Histrionic (Overly Dramatic) and mock serious due to the juxtaposition of the seriousness of the situation and the reason the president, the subsidiary feature in this case, was concerned about it.
After breaking down the two scenes the each group synthesized the two of them. My group tried to explain how they both used similar actions to create a much different effect for the audience. The coin flip scene in "Threat Level Midnight" was comical, because of the histrionic tone while the coin flip in "No Country for Old Men" made the audience feel the tension in the air, because of the choices in mise-en-scene creating a foreboding tone.
This really helps to see how different genres (Like tragedy, comedy) use their tones to really define their genres.
Great details about the learning that happened in our class yesterday. Very helpful for a student who might have been absent. Nice job using specific information from our discussion and elaborating to include definitions and other great examples from what we explored yesterday.
ReplyDeleteThis blog post is still missing the second half: where is that extension? Remember that half of this post should be dedicated to extending the learning BEYOND our classroom so we can see that our topics/themes/ideas/questions have relevance in the world at large.