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Resources:
Video: Pink
Bow Tie ep 4 vol 4 Round
the Twist 2, ACTF
See Education Catalogue
for video purchasing details and order form.
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Lesson plan:
Events in a narrative may be presented in the order in which they occur
in time (chronological order) or out of chronological order. If out of
chronological order the events may be presented as flash backs or less
often flash forwards. The flash back may last a matter of seconds, or
as was the case in Phar Lap, the major
part of the film was a flash back. Flash backs serve various functions
in a story. They can be used to dramatise a past event and thus become
an expository device (Chariots of Fire).
Flash backs can be used to give the audience background information about
the characters. In Amadeus we learned
the reasons for Sardi's bitterness through a series of flashes into the
past.
View Pink Bow
Tie
This episode uses a flash back technique which is common in narratives.
It begins just before the resolution, flashes back to the beginning and
then returns to the ending.
Class discussion
After watching draw students' attention to this structure. Construct a
class chart which shows the way in which the story manipulates the order
of events. Discuss the effect of this technique in terms of creation of
humour and suspense.
In small groups
Choose another narrative, perhaps another episode of Round
the Twist, which does not use this device and ask students to produce
a new version of the narrative applying the technique. Alternatively choose
a narrative poem and storyboard the main events. Decide upon the event
which would be the most visually exciting and rearrange the storyboard
to start with this event. Discuss the different techniques that could
be use to signal to the audience that this is a flash back (for example
a straight cut, a ripple, dissolve, fade.)
The running joke
Class discussion:
Throughout the early parts of this episode there is a running joke about
hair. Discuss the concept of a running joke. What does it contribute to
the humour of this episode.
Discuss the use of the title Pink Bow Tie, which
does not seem to have very much to do with the story. Discuss the appropriateness
of the title and the reasons why it was chosen. How did it help students
to generate expectations about the ending?
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