{"id":9601,"date":"2014-06-08T06:59:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T10:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/sceneanalysis\/"},"modified":"2023-12-07T10:08:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T15:08:53","slug":"mockingbird-scene-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/mockingbird-scene-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"To Kill A Mockingbird: Scene Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD:\u00a0SEEING THE FILM THROUGH THE\u00a0LENS OF MEDIA LITERACY<\/h3>\n<p><em>\u00a9 2006 Frank Baker<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/TKAMsceneanalysis.pdf\">download this page<\/a> as an Adobe (pdf) document<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCENE ANALYSIS<br \/>\n<\/strong>In order for students to effectively study or analyze a scene from the film, they\u00a0will need some guidance and practice. Be sure to review the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/mockingbird-film-language\/\">LANGUAGE OF FILM<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/mockingbird-camera-shots\/\">CAMERA SHOTS<\/a> in this guide.\u00a0 In analyzing a scene, it is important to watch it more than once. Different students might be assigned to be on the lookout for different elements. Those elements might include:\u00a0 camera angles, camera movement, music, sound effects, lighting, wardrobe, setting, expressions, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Confrontation at the jail\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0DVD Chapter 21\u00a0 The Lynch Mob 1:01:33<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"583\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"297\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/bushskidsscene.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"101\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/SCENEA1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"174\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/SCENEA2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"172\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/SCENEA3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"160\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"255\">\nThe scene begins with Jem, Scout<\/p>\n<p>and Dill in the bushes, looking from<\/p>\n<p>a distance, at their father who sits<\/p>\n<p>alone outside the jail the night<\/p>\n<p>before the trial is to begin. Atticus<\/p>\n<p>expects trouble, and sure enough a<\/p>\n<p>number of cars pull up and men with<\/p>\n<p>guns get out. The men, one of<\/p>\n<p>whom is Walter Cunningham, intend<\/p>\n<p>to lynch Tom Robinson.\u00a0(Notice how<\/p>\n<p>calm Atticus is in the face of the<\/p>\n<p>threats.) The children quickly make<\/p>\n<p>their way to the front of the mob.<\/p>\n<p>Atticus, surprised to see them, tells<\/p>\n<p>them to go home, but Jem refuses.<\/p>\n<p>A brief scuffle ensues, after which<\/p>\n<p>the children move from the crowd<br \/>\nup to the area where Atticus is.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s at that moment that Scout<\/p>\n<p>recognizes Mr. Cunningham and<\/p>\n<p>engages in a polite conversation<\/p>\n<p>which quickly defuses the incident.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nAnalysis of this Scene:<\/strong><br \/>\nThere is an <strong>establishing shot<\/strong> in the dead of night in which Atticus reads a book under a lamp.\u00a0 Here Atticus sits surrounded by darkness and engulfed by the lone light of his lamp.\u00a0 It gives a <strong>metaphoric <\/strong>impression that he is a man protecting the light of truth in a dark and hostile environment.\u00a0 Many of the camera angles used for Atticus are <strong>low angle<\/strong> shots.\u00a0 This fact seems important for two reasons.\u00a0 First, we see Atticus the same way the children would seem him.\u00a0 In other words we are forced to look up at him in the same way Scout of Jem would.\u00a0 Second, the angle enhances the sense of stability we feel from Atticus and helps support the fundamental strength of his ideas.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD:&nbsp;SEEING THE FILM THROUGH THE&nbsp;LENS OF MEDIA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-to-kill-a-mockingbird-popular"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36930,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601\/revisions\/36930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}