Billy Elliot – Character Breakdown, Film Metalanguage, Cinematic Techniques & Essay Plans

Resource Description

• Rubric Summary:
  • How texts represent individual and collective human experiences.
  • Human qualities and emotions associated with or arising from, these experiences.
  • Evaluate the ways language is used to shape these representations.
  • Given insight into the anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies in human behaviour and motivations.
  • Consider the role of storytelling throughout time to express and reflect particular lives and cultures.

• Rubric Concepts/Key Terms:
  • Individual and collective human experiences
    • Individual = identity and conformity
    • Collective = community and conformity
  • Reciprocal Relationships
• Individual vs society
• Anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies in human behaviour and motivation
  • Anomalies = unconventional, non-conformity, outsider
  • Paradoxes = contradictory
  • Inconsistencies = variances
  • Human behaviour = actions
  • Motivations = reason, desire
•  The role of storytelling throughout time to express and reflect particular lives and cultures
  • Bildungsroman = coming of age, individual growth and development.