The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – - PowerPoint Presentation

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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – R.L.Stevenson

Gothic Teach Meet

LATE

BfI

16

th

July 2013

mlindsay@nautical.lambeth.sch.ukSlide2

19th Century textShort!

Well written

Film versionsA rich resourcePopular A level module & English graduate coursesGeneral popularity – students will have prior knowledge to draw on

Why?Slide3

Pictures – door; Edwardian neighbourhood; pictures of Jekyll/Hyde (cinema), even a painting of a suicide………For each picture the students, in a small group, discussed the following questions:

What can you see?

What can you infer?What questions do you have?

Pre-Reading taskSlide4

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Reading!Focused closely on the description of Mr

Utterson

Four students researched ‘Gothic’The Unexplained – keeping a tally of the unexplained: door, key, revulsion caused by Mr Hyde, Jekyll’s strange will, letters – many of these are ‘ordinary’Focus on The

Strange

Case of Dr J & Mr Hyde – a detective element to it all.

Working on selected quotations in pairs - sharing this with the class

Further activities:Slide6

“The letter was written in a odd, upright hand, and signed ‘Edward Hyde’; and it signified, briefly enough, that the writer’s benefactor, Dr Jekyll, whom he had long so unworthily repaid for a thousand generosities, need labour under no alarm for his safety, as he had means of escape on which he placed a sure dependence.”

Signified – made known

Benefactor – a person who does good or gives money for a good purpose

Dependence – trust

What is interesting about the handwriting?

What is this paragraph telling us about the letter’s content?

What can you say about the language used in this sentence and the way it is structured?Slide7

1. How do they use body language and gesture to show fear, despair as well as happiness?2. How are facial expressions used to show emotions? Are they exaggerated? Would you call any of them gothic?

3. Are there any unexplained things, events or moments? For example the rats.

4. How is the landscape used to create atmosphere or tension?5. How are buildings used to create atmosphere or suspense? Are there any particular parts of buildings that are used? (E.g. windows, doors etc.)6. How is blood used as a recurring theme in the film?

7. What props are used effectively? How do they contribute to the film’s telling of the story? (Think of books, letters etc.)

(A selection of some of the questions they had to consider.)

Nosferatu

– 1922 Slide8

What should you include in your film?

•Close

up of symbolic objects (in J&H we have a key, a cheque, a will, letters.) •Shadows•Fingers or hands (that may change, transform)

•Architecture

(part of a building – in J&H we have the door, the laboratory, Dr J’s cabinet.)

•A

character or characters – so acting roles

•Some

sort of narrative that link your shots so that the audience can infer a story from your film – and remember this is the unexplained, so it can be full of mystery and questions!

•Your

film is silent – narration and music

can/will

be added afterwards.

Making your own Gothic FilmSlide9

Gothic films in the Mediatheque:

Book Group: Books turned into films.

Dracula, Wuthering Heights and Rebecca, including various film and TV adaptations of these novels plus docs about the authors. The Dracula collection includes the original Hammer film restored by the BfI

as well as

Murnau’s

Nosferatu

.

There are also a number of shorts, including BFI productions The Pit (1962) and To Have and To Hold (2000), plus some quite creepy animations like

Stalk

and

Rabbit

which have a macabre tone.

Feature films:

The Dark Eyes of London (1939), the first British film to be given the H for Horrific rating and starring Bela Lugosi. There is an up to date A-Z list of all titles available at http://www.bfi.org.uk/mediatheque

Visiting the

BfI

MediathequeSlide10

http

://vimeo.com/album/2438998

See this link for the Year 9 Gothic films: