Film+Study

Questions? Concerns? Email Mrs. Chausse lchausse@clintonpublic.org

Final Exam- ** The final exam for this course will be on Monday June 13 and Tuesday June 14th. Each session will be one hour long. Make certain to arrive on time with your blue or black pen. ** ** Monday June 13th. 7:35-8:35 ** **Part One: You will read a short story. You will create a story board with a minimum of four frames for a movie of the short story. In at least one of the shots you must explain the lighting, camera angle, camera movement, and sound. Explain how each of the elements conveys meaning. You will also address the mise en scene (scenery, props), acting and genre of the film for the short story.**  **Tuesday June 14th 7:35-8:35**       ** Part Two: You will watch a film short and answer questions on the film short. Study your Elements of Film handout. Answers will require knowledge and discussion of camera angle, camera movement, specific shots, lighting, sound, mise en scene, acting, meaning, color. ** 

Film Syllabus- ==

Film Class Wiki

An article on Film Study in high school

Class Blog- Film Project-

Oscar Nominees 2011

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 32px;">BibMe.com You may use this site to create a works cited page for your projects.


 * ASSIGNMENTS:**

Due Wednesday January 26 - Email me at lchausse@clintonpublic.org. Bookmark this page.

DUE Wednesday February 2- Write a response about the film clips we viewed in class on Tuesday January 25th. Post the response to the Film Study Blog To comment click on the leave a comment under the date on the top of the blog. Remember to follow the Blog Etiquette Guidelines. Blog Assignment Rubric: Film History Time line

Due Tuesday February 8- Read the comments on your blog entry. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">**Due Wednesday February 9**- Film Genre Project is due.


 * Due Friday February 11- Go to ** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25px;"> Film Class Wiki . Carefully read and watch the material provided on each of the wikis created by your classmates. After studying the wikis, go to <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 31px;"> Class Blog- to <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">write your response to the blog entry. You must have the blog completed before class begins on Friday February 11. Make certain to follow the blog etiquette guidelines.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Monday, February 14** - Storyboard your "typical school day" by sketching six scenes (early morning before school, going to school, in school scene 1, in school scene 2, after school, and evening/night). Write a short paragraph for each scene explaining those directorial decisions you would make. Where is the camera? Is the camera moving up, down, from the left or from the right? Is there music? Noise? How's the light? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Wednesday February 16-** Prepare to show the wiki to the class. Framing a scene assignment is due on Thursday.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Thursday February 17-** Read William Carlos Williams story. Choose a scene from the movie to frame. See assignment sheet for details. Be prepared to share your genre wiki with the class. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Friday February 18-** Bring in lights, music for your film clip. See the blog post. Mr. D has some film suggestions!Mr. D's suggestions
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">Due Tuesday March 1- **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">Watch a movie.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">Complete this assignment

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Thursday, March 3** - Read the first three stanzas from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." ([|link]) Pick three moments found in those three stanzas to storyboard or sketch (these do not have to be fancy); use three different camera angles for each of your three shots (refer back to your "Elements of Film" handout) and write each camera angle next to the shots you've sketched.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Monday, March 7** - Read William Carlos Williams' "This is Just to Say" ([|link]) and complete the attached worksheet. You will be storyboarding the poem's events from different perspectives. (Remember, the omniscient perspective is large, being able to see nearly everything; the group perspective is to see something from an observer's point of view and not the participant's; the individual perspective is to see something from the actual participant's point of view, a bank robber reaching into the vault to take out money, for example.)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Tuesday, March 8** - Pick a film, any film (appropriate), and research its writer. Post your findings on the class blog here: [|Film Study]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Monday, March 14** - Schindler's List History Assignment (see attachment, "history_assignment.doc"). Bring in a hard copy for me on Monday in addition to submitting your work online: [|www.turnitin.com]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Tuesday, March 15** - If you turned in the Schindler's List History Assignment (above), then please post a blog entry on one scene from today's viewing; you may post on any film element (lighting, angle, movement, etc.) but please explain how this element helps to create meaning. (For example, the high camera angle made Schindler look small, weak and ashamed at the moment his wife caught him with another woman.)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">If you did not turn in the Schindler's List History Assignment, then please post a blog entry on the real Oskar Schindler, when he lived, who he was, what we did, etc. (you can use the information from the article I handed out in class) and also include one Schindler's List "survivor story" you found online (there are a lot of them!)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Thursday, March 17** - For homework, watch a television commercial carefully and write on its ability to persuade or its effort to encourage your buying the product or service. How does the commercial go about doing it? Do you think this commercial is successful? Write a blog post first describing the commercial and then expressing your thoughts and opinions of it.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Monday, March 21** - Read "Analyzing Acting" handout and write on Schindler's List using each heading in the article for topics. (So, for example, you may write #1, the article's first heading, and then discuss that element of acting as it applies to Schindler's List [your observations]. Then continue...)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Tuesday, March 22** - Having read "Summarizing Plot" in class, now choose a film (any film, perhaps a favorite film...) and summarize its plot in one paragraph. If you find that you're having trouble writing a concise summary, refer back to the handout and look over the examples given.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Wednesday, March 23** - Now that you have practiced summarizing a film's plot, make an argument! Arguments should be more than, "This is not a good movie." Remember, you should be able to support your argument through critical analysis and by citing sources. (And that is ultimately what I will be looking for in your Schindler's List papers.) For this assignment, prepare three concise, one or two sentence arguments, each one on a different film that you have seen before. We will be discussing these in class.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Thursday, March 24** - Choose just one argument from the three (last night's homework) to support with two sources. In other words, imagine you are writing a paper using your chosen argument; what sources might you use to help support that argument? Post your argument on the class blog, find two sources, and then cite those two sources below the argument in correct MLA format.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Friday, March 25** - Write a one-paragraph summary on Schindler's List. If you're having trouble, imagine someone asking you, "What's Schindler's List about?" You wouldn't tell this person everything that happens in the movie, right? You would include only the major events. Remember, you do not need an argument (yet). Bring your summary to class! You will be workshopping your summaries!

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Tuesday, March 29** - Write your paper's rough draft. Remember, the summary you wrote in class on Thursday will become your paper's first paragraph. You will begin your paper's second paragraph with the argument you wrote in class today and posted on the class blog. Begin writing on those scenes that help to support your argument. (For example, if your argument is that Spielberg portrays Oskar Schindler as being more myth than man through shot type and framing, then choose scenes that are good examples of shot type and framing.) Come to class prepared with no fewer than a 1 1/2 typed, double spaced rough draft.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Thursday, March 31** - Come to class prepared with your film analysis papers on Schindler's List. This paper will be your revised, final draft. Your paper will be graded using the grading rubric below. Be sure to turn your papers in on www.turnitin.com as well as hand me a hard copy. turnitin.com <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Due April 4:** //One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest// question- Answer the question highlighted on your One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest handout. To answer the bonus questions, follow this link to the available resources. Mike H #2, Nick M. #1

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Due April 7:** Go to the blog. Read each group's response to the question. Comment on the blog post. Refer to specific points in the post. Express your opinion and support it with details from the film.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is available on Youtube

Part 3 (14:31) World Series proposal, group therapy discussion Part 4 (14:30)- World Series vote; meeting with doctor; escape to fishing trip Part 5 ( 14:52) Fishing trip continued; meeting with doctors and nurse; basketball scene, pool voluntary vs. committed

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Part 6:(14:51)- Cheswick loses control at meeting; gum scene with Chief; shock therapy <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Part 7: (14:47)-McMurphy's return from shock therapy, party on ward with Mr. Turkle, Candy <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Part 8: (14:55)- end of party, nurse return, Billy and girl- nurse confronts <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Part 9: (14:01)- Billy suicide/McMurphy attack/ end

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Due Tuesday April 12:** A typed proposal for the project: Examining a director's or actor's work <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;">**A typed project proposal which includes** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-indent: -0.25in;">· The name of a director or an actor whose work you are familiar with, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-indent: -0.25in;">· Three reputable sources you will use to learn about the actor or the director, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-indent: -0.25in;">· The names of students you will work with to complete this project. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Use Bibme to put your three sources in MLA format.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Suggested Sources - <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">AMC Film Site

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;">**Due Wednesday April 13:** Field Trip is today. All students who signed up for the trip must bring Mr. Bergman $20.00. You may make a check out to The Morgan School. The bus will leave directly after first period

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 30px;">**Due April 14:** Bring a poem in your pocket for Poem in your pocket day. Be prepared to share your poem and to explain why you chose this particular poem.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">** Due April 15: ****Submit typed-** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-indent: -0.25in;">· Information from the three reputable sources on your actor or director with a MLA works cited page <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-indent: -0.25in;">· The title and a brief summary of three films (title, director, actors, year, genre, brief summary of film) that you will view.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Due April 28, 2011:** Watch three films by your actor or director by this date. Take notes on the films.

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· <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Find a minimum of one film review on each of the films you watched. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-indent: -0.25in;">· Submit a works cited page in MLA format of the three reviews. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-indent: -0.25in;">· Read and annotate the three reviews. Film Site Film Reviews Roger Ebert Reviews <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-indent: -0.25in;">MMovie Review Query Engine New York Times Movie Reviews NPR Movie Reviews
 * Due on April 29, 2011 **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-indent: -0.25in;">**Monday May 2-** Students who were absent for The Red Balloon assignment must submit it by today. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Thesis for project is due today.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday May 4- **Projects are due. [[file:projectactorordirector.docx]]


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday May 9- ** Final projects presented

Test on presentations is today. If you were absent for any presentations, make certain to get the information on the presentation. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Class Blog-
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday May 10-Write a comment on the class blog about the projects presented in class. Reflect on your own project and comment on your classmates. **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday May 11- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Decide on a topic or a message for your video. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Come to class prepared to begin working on your Animoto production. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Go to Animoto <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Promo code a4echaub0a094

Draw the final scene of Casablanca.

**Thursday May 12-** Read the comments about the class projects on the blog. Film Study Blog Decide on the subject of your animoto video. Write down your choice.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Tuesday May 17-** Read Roger Ebert's review on Casablanca. Go to the class blog and comment on the Film Study Blog. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;">Due Wednesday May 25- Blog entry on Comedy film. Go to the class blog. Follow the directions. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Class Blog- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Due Friday May 27th-**Read the blog entries on the comedy films. Comment on at least three of the entries. Explain why you agree with the entry or why you do not. Choose films you are familiar with if possible Class Blog-
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due by the beginning of class on Thursday May 19- ** Animoto video must be on wiki

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Due Friday June 3rd-** Watch a sitcom on tv. Write down the time, name of the show, actors, directors, producers. Briefly summarize the show. Go to the Comedy wiki page. Review the information on the site including Mark's word document "What Makes a Good Comedy?". Identify the elements that make the show a comedy. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What types of comedy are employed? Why is this show funny? Type your response. (2 pages).
 * Due Wednesday June1- Write a one- two page response on the character assigned to you from Streetcar. **
 * Include- how the actor was portrayed in the play; how the actor was portrayed in the movie; identify a contemporary actor who would be great for this role. Explain your choice. **
 * Upload your paper to turnitin.com﻿ **


 * Week of June 6th: **

We will be watching three shorts this week: //The Youth in Us// (2005); //Robot Boy// (2003); //Jesus Henry Christ// (2003) Students will take notes in their notebooks during the initial film viewing. Students will complete the following worksheets after they watch each film.





<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Film Movement Shorts

The Red Balloon

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The Red Balloon -Critics' Picks- A.O. Scott Directed by Albert Lamorisse (1956) Flight of the Red Balloon- Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien; starring Simon Iteanu and Juliette Binoche Flight of the Red Balloon- review by Michael Phillips

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">The Criterion Collection. " <span style="color: #4d4c4c; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The Criterion Collection is dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions of the highest technical quality, with supplemental features that enhance the appreciation of the art of film." ( []) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Hulu Hulu is an online collection of movies and tv shows. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Yale Film Studies - Yale Film Analysis Web Site

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Camera Angles -

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">The Grammar of Television and Film - Camera Techniques: Distance and Angle, Editing Techniques, Manipulating Time, Use of Sound, Lighting, Graphics, Narrative Style, Formats and Other Features

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">AMC Film Site - an award winning movie on great movies of the last century. The site includes film history, reviews, film reference materials, film quotes and film rankings.

Future States

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">The Latest Movie Reviews <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; display: block; font: normal normal normal 13px/20px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">- AMC Movie and DVD Reviews

Memorable Movie Speeches <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; display: block; font: normal normal normal 13px/20px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">-American Rhetoric Movie Speeches

<span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/20px Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">In Point - The Language of Film

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Studying Film - U.K. Site set up for students studying film for the National Curriculum

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Looking At Movies- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">accompanies te xt

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">Looking at Movies- GlossaryElements of FilmShort Films Film Genres- Film Sites Description of each genre- Action Adventure Comedy Gangster and Crime Drama Epic/ Historical Horror Musical/ Dance Science Fiction War Westerns

February break- Mrs. Chausse viewed

Documentary of 2010 directed by Davis Guggenheim Waiting for Superman - follows five students examining their education

Drama or Crime film 400 Blows 1959 directed by Francois Truffaut- story of a young neglected boy who gets into trouble

Drama 2010- nominated for 12 academy awards //The Kings Speech// directed by Tom Hooper the story of King George VI who overcame his stuttering to lead the people of Great Britain during WW2

Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action 2010 The Towndirected by Ben Affleck

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">Greatest Film Director of all Times- 100 Greatest Film Directors Ever by Total Film Magazine with "Picture Perfect" Films




 * < **25 Most Influential Directors of All-Time (ranked) -**// MovieMaker Magazine // ||
 * < 1. Alfred Hitchcock ||< 14. John Cassavetes ||
 * < 2. D.W. Griffith ||< 15. Billy Wilder ||
 * < 3. Orson Welles ||< 16. Jean Renoir ||
 * < 4. Jean-Luc Godard ||< 17. Francis Ford Coppola ||
 * < 5. John Ford ||< 18. Howard Hawks ||
 * < 6. Stanley Kubrick ||< 19. Francois Truffaut ||
 * < 7. Sergei Eisenstein ||< 20. Buster Keaton ||
 * < 8. Charlie Chaplin ||< 21. Fritz Lang ||
 * < 9. Federico Fellini ||< 22. John Huston ||
 * < 10. Steven Spielberg ||< 23. Woody Allen ||
 * < 11. Martin Scorsese ||< 24. Luis Bunuel ||
 * < 12. Akira Kurosawa ||< 25. Ernst Lubitsch ||
 * < 13. Ingmar Bergman ||<  ||

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">Greatest Films:<span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; padding-right: 10px;">Fifty Best High School Movies Academy Awards History



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