Identify a key claim, idea, or concept from the ted talk How Movies Teach Manhood by Colin Stokes that you can use as a lens for analyzing the movie “Moana”. Then, select one scene from the movie (no more than 2-5 minutes) that your lens can help us see or understand in an interesting way. Write a short analysis that explains your lens to your reader and then demonstrates what seeing with this lens adds to the significance of your scene and perhaps to the film overall
Strategies:
Remember that we use sources as lenses in order to see more than we might notice at first glance. Consider what specific ideas from Stokes stand out to you as being noteworthy or interesting to think about in relation to the film. Read and reread carefully to ensure that you understand this idea in its original context before you incorporate it into your analysis of your scene.
Select your film scene carefully. Choose one that invites the close attention to detail that we call analysis. Be sure to watch the scene several times, and use Notice and Focus to help you choose representative, interesting, and complex filmic evidence to analyze. While your lens can help you notice evidence worth considering, it can also highlight things that the lens does not account for. Noticing this complicating evidence will ensure that you engage in more than merely matching between your lens and your scene; often such complications are rich opportunities for you to think and to write insightfully.
Use Tools for Visual Analysis and The Method on the film scene to make observations about the concrete details you have chosen. Apply 10 on 1 in order to say more about less.
In your analysis, be sure to explain the relationship between your evidence in the scene and the interpretation you are advancing. Ask, What do I want readers to see in this scene, and how does my lens help them to see it?
