Annabel Fenn (SFC) – Moonlight Textual Analysis Framework (1)

Here is my Moonlight textual analysis essay, I believe that I did well as I have included all the different features and also tried my best to include contextual knowledge.

In the future however I will need to be careful with my wordcount as unfortunately I was 2 words of 1500.

teacher feedback

I’m really glad you focussed on the scene in the bathroom in which he re-emerges from the water and is transformed. Remember water and the sea are a motif throughout the film. Chiron has many of his formative experiences by the beach and in water. He is baptised (by Juan) and here transformed again into the regressive figure of Black.

Some really good use of terminology, at times, especially in relation to camera, but there were opportunities to use terms for sound, editing and mise-en-scene, which you missed. Remember a Film Studies essay relies on use of terminology to identify the techniques being analysed by you and reveals that you understand film production decisions.

Your introduction to the context and film is strong, but there was some moments in your close textual analysis when you could have gone back to those ideas explicitly and specifically.

You’re right it was a pleasure to read and your strongest textual analysis essay so far. Very well done indeed! 18/28