PULP FICTION - Experimental CINEMATOGRAPHY [full lesson and assessment]

**This pack contains one 23-slide PowerPoint that teaches how to answer this question using Pulp Fiction as the chosen film.

One 12-page booklet - note taking, fill in the gaps, analysis, detailed slides and essay planning document. **

Explore how far cinematography contributes to the experimental nature of your chosen film or films. [20]

every analysis task comes with multiple slides breaking down the scenes and provide guidane for essay writing

Lesson covers:

• Starter - Re-cap of conventional/mainstream American cinema approach to camera
• Short Martin Scorsese/ history of the Hollywood style - documentary extract and tasks
• Explanation of the ‘formal’ approach to cinematography - with examples
• Discussion of Tarantino’s most common ‘experimental’ uses of camera - with examples from the film
• How to write an introduction to the question - writing task
• Part 1 - 'using the camera to restrict information and create active spectators.
• The ‘Trunk shot’
• Part 2 - Subversion of conventional approach / experimenting with scene construction
• Analysis of scene from Fast and Furious 7 -
• Comparative analysis of the ‘Marcellus meets Butch’ scene from the film
• Part 3 - French New Wave: camera in service of the characters, not narrative
• Analysis - scene from Breathless
• Analysis - comparison to final scene from the film
• Detailed visual breakdown of the final sequence

Plenary/assessment:

• Read exemplar essay
• Review and re-write activity
• optional research task
• Essay planning activity [with booklet]
• Mark scheme