1. Watch and Listen
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Watching film evokes certain emotions and feelings from the viewer with the images, music, dialogue, etc. In the same way, writing evokes responses from the reader with the choice of words and writing style.
The tone and mood of your writing is determined by the words you use, and your writing style.

2. How do you feel?
What is your mood?
Do you think this is how the person who made this film wanted you to feel?

3. Identify Tone Within Text and Film Identify Mood Within Text And Film
Tone And Mood
OBJECTIVES:
Identify Tone Within Text and Film
Identify Mood Within Text And Film

4. TONE
Is the author’s attitude toward the writing (his characters, the situation) and the readers.
A work of writing can have more than one tone.
An example of tone can be both serious and humorous.
Opinions may be positive or negative.

5. Tone in film Watch! What is the TONE? Watch the video clip.
Choose 3 words to describe the tone.
(start at 3:00)
Amused
Humorous
Pessimistic
Angry
Informal
Arrogant
Horror
Light
Miserable
Strong
Serious
Formal
Playful
Cheerful
Ironic
Accepting
Suspicious
Gloomy
Optimistic
Witty

6. Watch!
Now watch the same video images that have been edited and with different music.
Has the tone changed?
Amused
Humorous
Pessimistic
Angry
Informal
Arrogant
Horror
Light
Miserable
Strong
Serious
Formal
Playful
Cheerful
Ironic
Accepting
Suspicious
Gloomy
Optimistic
Witty

7. Tone in text What is the tone?
“And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best. We complained about it. So we’ve got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we’ve got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing.”
The School by Donald Barthelme
What is the tone?
What word or words helped you come to your answer?

8. Answer:
The use of adjectives “dead” and “depressing” sets a gloomy tone in the passage. As trees signify life here, their unexpected “death” from an unknown cause gives the above passage an  unhappy and pessimistic tone.

9. “I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
From The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
What is the tone?
What word or words helped you come to your answer?

10. Answer:
Frost tells us about his past with a “sigh” giving the above lines an unhappy tone. This tone convinces us into thinking Frost is telling us sullenly of a choice in the past about which he was not happy or contented in the present.

11. MOOD The general atmosphere created by the author’s words.
It is the feeling the reader obtains from reading those words. It may be the same, or it may change from situation to situation.

12. How is mood created? The setting The use of descriptive words
The punctuation used
The sound of words
All these things work together to create the mood of a text.

13. Moods Can Be Positive Or Negative
Hopeful
Cheerful
Joyous
Playful
Peaceful
Negative:
Gloomy
Violent
Tense
Heartbreaking
Painful

14. What mood does this image create?
Mood in Images
What mood does this image create?
violent
peaceful
playful

15. What mood does this image create?
gloomy
painful
cheerful

16. What mood does this image create?
tension
peacefulness

17. Mood in text
“The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.”
What is the mood and how do you know?

18. Charles Dickens creates a calm and peaceful mood in his novel “Pickwick Papers”
The description of this scene causes a serene and nonviolent mood to the readers by using visual imagery.

19. “There was no moon, and everything beneath lay in misty darkness: not a light gleamed from any house, far or near all had been extinguished long ago: and those at Wuthering Heights were never visible…”
What is the mood and how do you know?

20. Emily Bronte in “Wuthering Heights” creates a lonely and depressing mood. This mood is created by using the words “misty,” “darkness,” and “never visible.”

21. The Difference Between
Tone = Attitude toward
reader/audience, subject,
and/or characters
Mood = Environment

22. Tone and Mood Watch out! Tone and mood are similar!
REMEMBER Tone is the author’s attitude toward his/her characters, the subject, and the reader.
A work of writing CAN have more than one tone.
Example of tone could be both serious and humorous.
Tone is set by the setting, choice of vocabulary and other details.