Power of One Essay Introduction Questions

Essay Question

Describe at least two important techniques used in the text(s). Explain how the use of the techniques created impact, supporting your points with evidence from the text.

Sample Introduction

During the harrowing time of Apartheid, a lot of injustices were served to the black population of South Africa. In the film The Power of One, directed by John Avildsen, the scene where Sergeant Borman forces Geel Piet to eat donkey excrement paints the picture of the ill treatment towards black people. The following techniques are used in this scene: diegetic sound, camera angles and shots, and dialogue. These film techniques helped convey this important idea and caused the scene to have a strong impact on the audience.

1. Highlight the different elements of TAKO (Title, Author, Keywords from the Question, Outline of Ideas) using four different colours. Create a key to indicate which colour goes with which part of TAKO.

Title

Author

Keywords from the question

Outline of Ideas

2. What is this person’s ARGUMENT going to be in their essay?

The ill-treatment and injustice towards the Black South African people and how the film techniques shown in this particular scene show this imbalance of power.

3. What do you think this person’s three body paragraphs are going to be about?

How the film techniques contribute towards the film's scenes and develop the impact of the scene even more. Particularly with each paragraph, it will likely talk about how each technique develops it instead of one paragraph dedicated to all of them.

4. Now it’s your turn to write a conclusion. You just need to re-state the same ideas in a different way! Here is an example.

The techniques John Avildsen has developed and shown to us in the Power of One are strong and extremely impacting upon the effect it had on the audience. Avildsen has shown us many important techniques and while they are not as visible or known, without them the scene wouldn't be nearly as impactful. They show the difficult and eventful life of the ill-treated South African people with showing Sergeant Bormon showing extremely mistreatment towards them, especially within this scene where Geel Piet is forced to eat donkey poo off of Sergeant Bormon's shoe.

I kinda worked with Connor on this.