My chosen text is: Green Day – Wake Me Up When September Ends [Official Music Video]
Write a brief overview of what is happening in the scene you have viewed.
Highlight four or more significant text aspects to focus on. These should be significant in terms of their meaning and/or their impact. Aspects could include:
ideas, for example, themes, attitudes, beliefs, feelings, experiences, insights, meanings, opinions, thoughts, and understandings
text conventions, language features, and structures, for example, dialogue, acting, costume, setting, camera angle, camera shot, lighting, editing or structural techniques, sound effects, special effects.
For each aspect, record it in the TEMPER table below and list supporting evidence – specific, relevant details that illustrate and reinforce your explanation. These details must be different for each aspect.
6:02 – 6:13
3:32 – 3:42
3:43 – 3:55
2:18 – 2:24
2:56 – 3:02
TEMPER Table
Text Aspect
Identify the text aspect. Be specific.
Example
Describe what you see.
Meaning
Explain what the aspect symbolises and/or
Purpose
Explain why the aspect is used.
Effect
Explain how it makes you feel or what it makes you think about.
Relevance
Explain what it reminds you of in the real world.
The mise-en-scene of the two main characters in the start of the music video
The frame is mostly taken up by the faces of the two main characters, a male and a female, but you can see that they are in a field of flowers, on a nice day. The characters are very close and https://www.canva.com/ kissing occasionally.
The two-shot at the start of the film is deliberately used by the director to show both characters physically very close together,
This shot makes me feel like I am experiencing the scene first hand, rather than through a screen
This reminds me of how in the real-world life is unexpected and unpredictable and sometimes things that are going smooth and feel like the will never go wrong take a turn
The panning of the camera from the yelling, standing female character to the sitting male character
Female yelling at male partner on front poarch, standing about 2m apart
The panning of the camera from one character to the other is used by the director to emphasize the physical distance between the two characters, representing the condition of brokenness and emotional distance in their relationship. This technique intensifies the characters’ conflict, as opposed to the two-shot used in the beginning in the film which
The Juxtaposition between the scene at the start of the video when the couple’s relationship is trouble free, and the poarch scene where the couple …. really strengthens the director’s intention
The extreme close-up in the opening scene of the music video.
The frame is mostly taken up by the faces of the two main characters, a male and a female, but you can see that they are in a field of flowers, on a nice day. The characters are very close and kissing occasionally.
The Extreme close up shot used in this scene portrays the intimate and romantic feelings of the two characters to the audience. The closeness of the shot directly correlates to the closeness of the character’s relationship. which builds anticipation in the audience, as the ease and simpleness seems too good to be true.
The
The shot goes from footage of the band playing then abruptly cut to a scene of the military in a war
Diegetic sound bc gunshots suddenly can be heard overtop of the song as the instruments get loud and harsh which symbolize
Low angle shot at 3:43 paired with the fact that there is only one subject in the frame at a time
The shot shows the main male character yelling at the main female charcter from a low angle, the frame only shows the male.
The low angle shot forces the viewers to look up at the yelling male which makes his character’s emotions feel more intense and serious. It also makes the audience feel more connected with what’s happening in the scene as opposed to being far away and observing.
Using the information and ideas that you have gathered in your table, summarise the findings of your close viewing in paragraph form.
Template
Essay sections
Write your draft here:
Introduction
Identify the music video and director.
Explain briefly what is happening in the scene.
Describe what the director was trying to achieve (their purpose) and their intended audience.
Identify the four or more significant text aspects on which you have chosen to focus.
Explain how the selected aspects work together to create meaning and to communicate ideas in relation to the director’s intention, human experience, society and the wider world.
Body Paragraph 1 (aspects 1 & 2)
Identify the text aspects (one at a time).
Explain where each aspect is used.
Explain each aspect in terms of its meaning and impact.
Explain the audience’s reaction.
Explain how the combined aspects help you to understand something about the character(s) or a relationship.
Explain any relevance to the real world.
Body Paragraph 2 (aspects 3 & 4)
Identify the text aspects (one at a time).
Explain where each aspect is used.
Explain each aspect in terms of its meaning and impact.
Explain the audience’s reaction.
Explain how the combined aspects help you to understand something about the character(s) or a relationship.
Explain any relevance to the real world.
Conclusion
Summarise which text aspects are used.
Explain why they are used.
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Assessment Schedule
Not Achieved
Achieved
Merit
Excellence
Understanding
Understanding of visual and/or oral text(s) through close viewing and/or listening, is not demonstrated. The purpose and effect on the audience are not understood.
Understanding of visual and/or oral text(s) through close viewing and/or listening, is demonstrated. The purpose and effect on the audience are understood.
Understanding of visual and/or oral text(s) through close viewing and/or listening, is demonstrated convincingly. The purpose and effect on the audience are convincingly understood.
Perceptive understanding is demonstrated. This involves explaining how aspects of visual and/or oral text(s) communicate ideas about the text in relation to the writer’s purpose as well as wider contexts, such as human experience, society and the wider world.
Evidence and Support
Lack of supporting evidence: the use of specific and relevant details from the text(s) to support ideas.
Supporting evidence is included. This refers to the use of specific and relevant details from the text(s) to support ideas.
Relevant supporting evidence is included. This refers to the use of specific and relevant details from the text(s) to support ideas.
Relevant supporting evidence is included. This refers to the use of specific and relevant details from the text(s) to support ideas. This could be integrated fluently into the text.
Structure
At least four text aspects are not discussed. Different explanations for each text aspect are not given or supported by different details.
At least four text aspects are discussed. Different explanations for each text aspect are given or supported by different details.
At least four text aspects are discussed. Different explanations for each text aspect are convincingly discussed or supported by relevant details.
At least four text aspects are discussed. Different explanations for each text aspect are convincingly discussed or supported by relevant details to effectively organise and develop a perceptive case.
Ideas
Understanding of ideas (eg notable or major themes, attitudes, beliefs, experiences, feelings, insights, meanings, opinions, thoughts, and understandings within the text) is not demonstrated.
Understanding of ideas (eg notable or major themes, attitudes, beliefs, experiences, feelings, insights, meanings, opinions, thoughts, and understandings within the text) is demonstrated.
Understanding of ideas (eg notable or major themes, attitudes, beliefs, experiences, feelings, insights, meanings, opinions, thoughts, and understandings within the text) is convincingly demonstrated.
Understanding of ideas (eg notable or major themes, attitudes, beliefs, experiences, feelings, insights, meanings, opinions, thoughts, and understandings within the text) is perceptively demonstrated.
