Day II Lenses

Today in class we reviewed on lenses used in a film. We went over Social and Political lenses.

The Goal:

IWBAT--> apply social and political lenses to analyze narratives.

IWBAT--> interpret the theme in horror.

Social Lenses
Social lenses are classified as community values. If we break that down, even more, we come up with topics such as groups in the country, social classes, race, groups based off of culture, economics, religion, and money. They are all groups of people.

Political Lenses
Political lenses are classified by power and the rules and consequences that come with it. It also has to do with who has power and how it is evolving.

Applying the Lenses
We then applied these lenses to a typical topic such as your average high school cafeteria. We mostly focused on our cafeteria and its structure. When we take a moment to analyze, we classify it to have tables that represent different communities. We notice that the underclassmen sit around the outside of the cafeteria and as students get older, they begin to start sitting in the inside of the cafeteria. Then those grades break up into tables that often are based on clubs, sports teams, and basic friend groups. If you think about it, almost represents a basic pyramid in the breakdown of it. Everyone (freshman) start at the bottom which also represents the base of the cafeteria and then as they get older, they work their way up the pyramid based on where they sit in a cafeteria.

Then we apply the political lense. The same thing applies to the pyramid. On the top of the pyramid is the faculty because they have all the power and authority over the entire student body. The faculty represents the discipline to the student body and with that discipline comes with power with it. Then there are the seniors who have the second highest amount of power. We have power because we are the only class who can leave the school. Then we talked about the power that exists in the underclassmen. One topic that came up was money, and how the students that had more money had more power to do things such as buy more food in the cafeteria. But we also talked about how they had the least amount of power because they don't often get a complete say in where they get to sit in the cafeteria.

I later tried applying these lenses to outside examples such as the groups of government. I mean it is election day. Socially, they are broken up by rank, branches, and department. Then I took a look at the obvious political side of it. The person with the most power in government is the president. Then there is the vice president with the second highest amount of power. After that, the presidential cabinet with a little amount of power compared to the president because they help the president with final decisions.