Monday, June 17, 2013

Week 2: Audience Expectations and Physics


Week 2 Lesson Plan
Intro to Film 8 Week

  • Review / Discuss Ran
  • Film Form and Expectations of the Audience
    • Often connected to the Director
    • Logical plot progression
      • Exposition
      • Rising action
      • Climax
      • Falling action
      • Denoument
      • Conclusion / Closure
    • Major Dramatic Question
    • MacGuffin
    • Characterizations
      • Clear objectives
      • Stock Characters
      • (Romantic comedy – good example of stock characters)
    • Film formula – Genres (Genre group activity)
    • Types of films (larger groupings)
      • Narrative
      • Documentary
      • Experimental
  • First Break (10 min)
  • Physics of Film
    • Phi Phenomenon (sequence of images cause illusion of motion – flipbook)
    • Critical flicker fusion (strobing light appears constant)
    • Illusion of Movement (no real movement happening, folks)
    • Manipulation of Space
      • Off-screen space
      • Perspective shifting
        • LOTR a good example for this
      • Modern 3-D
    • Manipulation of Time
      • Cinematic Time vs real elapsed time
  • Assign Essay #1
    • Short writing lecture
      • Good strong thesis statement
      • What is a paragraph?
      • Writing to engage / interest the reader
      • Taking risks in writing
  • Second Break (longer)
  • Why Citizen Kane?
  • Citizen Kane
  • (Discussion) – Assign Online Discussion

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