KarakterløftetFilm and Visual Art
Learn to analyse films and visual texts – camera, sound, editing and composition – and use them as texts for reflection on society, like Sorry We Missed You or street art.
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Films and images are texts: they argue with choices you can analyse. Film's toolbox is mise-en-scène (what's in the frame), camera work (angles, distance, movement), editing (pace, cuts, montage) and sound (diegetic and non-diegetic). Visual art adds composition, colour and placement – street art adds location as meaning. English 1's films are society-facing: Sorry We Missed You on gig-economy work, The Florida Project on poverty, Pride on solidarity. Analyse the how; then discuss what the text says about the issue.
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