Edexcel A2 French (6FR04) - 14th June 2013

Omg do you go St Doms?

YES LOL Who is this? :P

Wait Omg is this Christian!?!?! Je suis ton meilleure ami et je deteste Isabelle!

Lol yeah its me Kristian I'm guessing this is Mehk? lol

HAHHAHAH omg yes it is ! Im dying for tomorrow like what the hell do you write about stylistic techniques?

I usually tend to do 2 paragraphs for and one against is that not recommended?

I'm pretty sure you could include all of that, it's basically how the film is constructed and what you see. So you could write about the naturalistic and 'invisible' camera, and how it is often positioned amongst the students, and therefore places the spectator in their position too. You could also write about how the style contributes to the characters, like when Souleymane and Francois are arguing they are each at the centre of the frame and eye level with the camera, which implies that neither one has more power over the other. The quick cuts between them also emphasises their argument. The use of voice over (voix-off, I think) when Francois is reading the girl's letter allows the reader to sympathise with her and see her perspective indirectly though the cinematic technique.

It's kinda hard to write about stylistic techniques for Entre les Murs, because everything is so naturalistic and a bit dull! But I suppose that in itself is a point, to make it look like unmediated reality for the viewer, and you could also mention the very limited space of the class room, which creates an intensity and restricted view of their lives.

Hope that helps somehow, but you can talk about it pretty broadly

I found this exam really hard and am now 99% sure I've missed my uni offer

Discursive essay was okay, but I found the translation really difficult and I didn't explicitly use the term 'style' for the literature/arts question which I feel so stupid for, I just said that Truffaut creates a sense of realism in his films and even though I'd class realism as a style I'm scared I'll get a low grade for not using the terms of the question, ugh at the time I just didn't think I needed to explicitly say 'style' as it was obvious that realism was the style I was talking about in the essay.

So yeah, overall pretty disappointed but at least all my exams are now over I guess...

I put troisieme monde oh well....

how did you figure out it was the above? Did you revise that somewhere?