Film and Culture: Week 2 - Film Form

Film and Culture Week 2

ñ  Pre-class survey or quiz on difficult parts of the textbook that need expanding.

◦   Use polleverywhere.com

ñ  Discussion of Pelada

ñ  Demonstrate online discussion

ñ  Film form lecture

◦   Mise En Scene

▪   Use shot from Kagemusha

◦   Shot – Scene – Sequence

◦   Cinematography

▪   Clip from intro video?

◦   Editing

▪   Three purposes of editing

ñ  Continuity

ñ  Meaning

ñ  Deception

▪   Kuleshov Effect

◦   Sound Design

▪   Room Tone Track

▪   Score

▪   ADR

◦   Diagetic elements vs non-diagetic elements

◦   Types of Film

▪   Narrative

▪   Documentary

▪   Direct Cinema

▪   Experimental

◦   Genres of film

ñ  Ideology / Cultural studies

◦   Discussion of what the terms in the book mean

◦   Idea of who is in power vs who is not – how they are represented

◦   Def of Culture (values, beliefs, and norms)

◦   Invisibility of Culture

◦   high art / low art

◦   communication model (graphic)

ñ  Studio system

◦   Traditional story structure

◦   “Golden Era” moviemaking

▪   Movie theater experience

▪   Big 5 (majors)

ñ  WB

ñ  MGM

ñ  20^th C Fox

ñ  RKO

ñ  Paramount

▪   Little 3

ñ  Columbia

ñ  Universal

ñ  United Artists (Fairbanks, Pickford, Chaplin)

ñ  Break!

ñ  Watch The Artist

ñ  Break

ñ  Discuss The Artist

ñ  Online Discussion 

Back to School, week 1

...aaand we are back.

I missed blogging the last few weeks of class mostly because I ran out of energy and time at the end of the semester. Let me alleviate that by showing you a student's final project:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9f12u-MsZw

This week is mostly about reading syllabi, orienting ourselves to the content and form, and from my end there is a lot of registration headaches. Waitlists are supposed to make our lives easier and sometimes they just make things more confusing.

My first film and culture class was on Wednesday, this is what they came up with:

More soon - A.