Mr. Rivers explained at the beginning of class what our objectives would be for the day, and what assignments would be due this week and next week.
Objectives:
IWBAT supply social & political lenses to analyze narratives
IWBAT interpret theme in horror
Assignments:
Be Reel Blog #2 due at 11:59 pm on November 6
Ready Player One Level 2 must be read by NEXT TUESDAY November 13
The requirements for Ready Player One Level Two for next week:
Apply political or social lens to Level Two. What does the text critique about contemporary American society or politics?
Prepare Two-Three passages for class discussion and writing.
Identify, annotate, analyze, etc.
Class Notes:
Lens:
The definition of lens(es) - POV (Point of View) to create relationships - what connects our film to (craft, environment, society, politics)
There are four different kinds of lens, and they are:
- Cinematic lens: links between product and craft
- Environmental lens: links between product & environment
- Social lens: links between product & society
- Political lens: links between product & politics
Rivers then gave us this quote, from the director Jonathan Peele, who directed Get Out (which we also started watching today) to give us practice on identifying lens.
“Peele wanted the audience, regardless of race, to see the subtle racism through Chris’s eyes. “It was very important to me just to get the entire audience in touch in some way with the fears inherit [in] being black in this country,” Peele says. “Part of being black in this country, and I presume being any minority, is constantly being told that we’re seeing racism where there just isn’t racism.”
Rivers wanted the class to identify social and political lens in the quote.
Social:
- Representation of Problems
- Racism: people say Racism: NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL
People arguing over what isn’t/is racist
Political:
- Fears of being black in this country
- Government perception of race
- Representation
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