| Script Written | ✓ |
| Initial Script re written from feedback | ✓ |
| Source List Compiled | ✓ |
| Still Images Sourced | ✓ |
| V/O recorded | ✓ |
| Film Clips uploaded ready for edit | ✓ |
| timeline assembled | |
| initial video draft checked | |
| video draft amended | |
| final video on M drive | |
| Source List on M drive |
comparative study: checklist
[✓] Script written & draft checked
[✓] Initial script re-written based on one set of teacher feedback
[✓] Source list compiled
[✓] V/O recorded
[✓] Still images sourced
[✓] Film clips uploaded
[✓] Timeline assembled on premiere
[✓] Initial video draft compiled
[✓] Initial video draft amended
[✓] Final video uploaded to M drive
[✓] Source list uploaded to M drive
Comparative Checklist
Audit where you are – what still needs to be done?
Script written & draft checked? done
Initial script re written based on one set of teacher feedback? done
Source List Compiled? (At least 10 things – books &weblinks)? done
V/O recorded? done
Still images sourced (if required e.g. film posters for intro) done
Film clips uploaded ready for the edit? done
Timeline assembled on premiere (sound & vision) doing
Initial video draft checked? not done
Initial video draft amended? not done
Final video uploaded to M drive? not done
Source list uploaded to M drive? not done
comparative study checklist
Script written & draft checked? Initial script re written based on one set of teacher feedback? Source List Compiled? (At least 10 things – books &weblinks) Still images sourced (if required e.g. film posters for intro)
V/O recorded? – fridays lesson
Film clips uploaded ready for the edit -during half term
Timeline assembled on premiere (sound & vision) – during half term
Initial video draft checked / Initial video draft amended
Final video uploaded to M drive / Source list uploaded to M drive
Comparative Study Checklist
| script written | done |
| draft checked | done |
| initial script rewritten (based on one set of teacher’s feedback) | done |
| source list compiled | done |
| voiceover recorded | |
| still images found | done |
| film clips ready for upload | |
| timeline assembled on premiere | |
| initial video draft checked | |
| initial video draft amended | |
| final video draft uploaded to M drive | |
| source list uploaded to M drive |
I still need to record my voiceover and should be able to do that in tomorrow’s lesson
I still need to find my clips which I will do tonight
Comparative Study Progress Check-
19/10/2022
Script written and draft checked
Initial script rewritten based on teacher feedback
Source list compiled
V/O recorded
Still images sourced
Film clips uploaded ready for edit
Timeline assembled on premiere
Initial video draft checked
Initial video draft amended
Final video uploaded to M drive
Source list uploaded to M drive
comparitive study progress check
Script written & draft checked?
Initial script re written based on one set of teacher feedback? Source List Compiled? (At least 10 things – books &weblinks)
V/O recorded?
Still images sourced (if required e.g. film posters for intro)
Film clips uploaded ready for the edit
Timeline assembled on premiere (sound & vision)
Initial video draft checked
Initial video draft amended
Final video uploaded to M drive
Source list uploaded to M drive
Textual Analysis – Source Table
| Source Number | Director/Author | Title | Date Published | Date Last Accessed (If Website) | URL (If Website) |
| 1) | Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund | City Of God | 2002 | N/A | N/A |
| 2) | James Monaco | How To Read A Film | 2009 Edition, Oxford University Press | N/A | N/A |
| 3) | Cavi Borges, Luciano Vidigal | City Of God: 10 Years Later | 2013, Netflix | N/A | N/A |
| 4) | Peter Bradshaw | City Of God Review | 2003, Guardian Newspaper | 26/09/22 | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/jan/03/artsfeatures2 |
| 5) | Lois Tyson | Critical Theory Today | 2006, Routledge | N/A | N/A |
| 6) | Stephanie Muir | Studying City Of God | 2016, Liverpool Press | 26/09/2022 | https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv13841wr |
| 7) | Youtube | Director Fernando Meirelles discusses the making of ‘City of God’ | 9th April 2010 | 11/10/2022 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG_NiQ16PZY |
| 8) | The Guardian | How we made City of God | 9th Jun 2014, Tne Guardian | 11/10/2022 | https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jun/09/how-we-made-city-of-god |
| 9) | 13th Jun 2022 | 11/10/2022 | https://www.slideshare.net/mattheworegan/city-of-god-booklet | ||
| 10) | Alba Zaluar | Perverse Integration: Drug Trafficking and Youth in the “Favelas” of Rio de Janeiro | Spring 2000 | 11/10/2022 | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24357769 |
| 11) | IMDb | City Of God (2002)-Awards-IMDb | 12/10/2022 | https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/awards/?ref_=tt_awd | |
| 12) | 11/10/2022 | https://library.brown.edu/create/fivecenturiesofchange/chapters/chapter-9/favelas-in-rio-de-janeiro-past-and-present/ | |||
| 13) | Box Office Mojo | City of God – Box Office Mojo | 12/10/2022 | https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3695937025/ | |
| 14) | Nitrate | City Of God – Interview with Fernando Meirelles | 13/10/2022 | https://nitrateonline.com/2004/fcityofgod.html | |
| 15) | Luke Dowdney | Neither war nor peace: children and youth in organised armed violence | October 2003 | 13/10/2022 | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6735246/ |
| 16) | Lancaster University | City of God Sociology paper | 2004 | 14/10/2022 | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/resources/sociology-online-papers/papers/diken-city-of-god.pdf |
| 17) | University of Pennsylvania Press | Gramsci and the Theory of Hegemony | Apr. – Jun., 1975 | 14/10/2022 | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2708933?read-now=1#page_scan_tab_contents |
| 18) | Roger Ebert | City Of God Review | Jan 24th 2003 | 16/10/2022 | https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/city-of-god-2003 |
| 19) | Wikipedia | Hegemonic Masculinity | 17/10/2022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemonic_masculinity#Toxic_masculinity | |
| 20) | The Washington Post | Brazil’s Benevolent Drug Lords | September 19th 2002 | 17/10/2022 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/09/19/brazils-benevolent-drug-lords/46de7df8-d1ac-4371-af65-396e8daa65f4/ |
| 21) | The Atlantic | The Movie Review: ‘City of God’ | June 22 2004 | 18/10/2022 | https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2004/06/the-movie-review-city-of-god/69527/ |
ta introduction
I have chosen Kátia Lund and Fernando Meirelles 2002, Crime, drama City of God for my textual analysis. The film is set in Rio De Janeiro and features two boys going down different paths and where it leads them in the end. One getting into the business of Drug dealing and the other aspiring to become a photographer. I have chosen 1.50.12 – 1.53.16 of the film to analyse, this features the climax of the film where two gangs’ cross paths and begin to shoot at each other, this ends in the betrayal of one of Knockout Neds own member. To enable me to efficiently analyse this section I’ve chosen to analyse, Mise en Scene and Cinematography as my micro elements and representation and ideology as my macro elements. In terms of context, I will be focusing on historical and social aspects of the film.
intro
I have chosen Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund’s 2002 coming of age film, City of God for my textual analysis. This film follows two young boys growing up in the crime filled slums of Rio de Janeiro through the 60s to the 80s and the different paths that leads one to be an aspiring photographer and the other to be a notorious drug dealer within the slums. I have chosen the section of the film between 00:55:50 – 01:00:10 around halfway through the film which follows the runts of the slums as they hold up shops and are then confronted by Lil Ze as he forces steak’n’fries to kill one of the runts to prove himself to the gang. To analysis this section, I am focussing on mise-en-scene and editing and its representation and ideologies of gang culture at the time. I will also be discussing the social and historical context surrounding the film.