Silver Screen
Week 6: Special Effects
Monday 5/13
Agenda:
Group Notes on Light, Shadow, & Color
Practice Quiz
Screening: 'The Wizard of Oz'
Announcements & Reminders:
Quiz on Light, Shadow, & Color on Wed.
Tuesday 5/14
Agenda:
Screening: 'Wizard of Oz'
Wednesday 5/15
Agenda:
Quiz on Light, Shadow, & Color
'Wizard of Oz' Continued
Thursday 5/16
Agenda:
Screening: TBD
Friday 5/17
Agenda:
Week 5: Sound / Light, Shadow, & Color
Monday 5/6
Agenda:
On Your Own, Read / Watch / Listen to:
Together, Watch, Listen to:
Group Notes on Sound
Practice Quiz
Announcements & Reminders:
Quiz on Sound on Wednesday
Tuesday 5/7
Agenda:
Studiobinder's Film Lighting Techniques (this is more of a how-to guide for movie makers, but the content and vocabulary is good for us).
CineFix's Top 10 Uses of Color.
Screening: "The Shawshank Redemption"
Announcements & Reminders:
Quiz on Sound on Tomorrow
Wednesday 5/8
Quiz on Sound
Screening: "The Shawshank Redemption"
Thursday 5/9
Agenda:
Screening: "The Shawshank Redemption"
Friday 5/10
Agenda:
Screening: "The Shawshank Redemption"
RocketJump Film School’s So You Don't Want to Watch a Black-And-White Movie.
Week 4: Camerawork
Monday 4/29
Agenda:
Watch Take Notes On:
CBS Sunday Morning’s feature on Garret Brown, inventor of the steadicam.
If you're into it, you can watch this piece (optional) where Brown talks at greater length about using the steadicam to shoot Rocky.
This famous clip from "Silence of the Lambs" where FBI trainee Clarice Starling first visits the notorious psychologist/serial killer Hannibal Lector to ask for his help profiling another murderer. And Tony Zhou's video essay on the effect of camera angle on this scene.
Studiobinder's "Different Types of Camera Shots and Angles in Film". There's a lot of info here, but we don't have time to cover everything. So you can ignore the sections on "framing" and "lenses," but you should pay attention to "shots," "angles," "focus," and especially "movement" (including the handheld shot) and click on at least a few examples of each.
Screening: 'Jaws'
Tuesday 4/30
Agenda:
Group Notes on Camerawork
Practice Quiz on Camerawork
(If Time Permits) Screening: 'Jaws'
Wednesday 5/1
Camerawork Quiz
"Silence is Golden" from David Foster's "Reading The Silver Screen."
Tasos Frantzolas's "Everything You Hear on Film is a Lie."
Thursday 5/2
Sound editor Tina Hirsh on using silence in Dante's Peak. (Stop @ 41:40)
Steven Spielberg's remarks from John Williams' AFI Life-Achievement Ceremony
CBS this Morning’s piece on the 2017 documentary called "Score."
That documentary, in its entirety, is available here. You don't need to watch the whole thing, but I recommend browsing through at least some of it.
Friday 5/3
Screening: Jaws
Week 3: Editing / Camerawork
Monday 4/22
Agenda:
Watch / Take Notes On:
Review / Discussion / Notes: Editing
Announcements & Reminders:
Quiz on Editing on Wednesday
Tuesday 4/23
Agenda:
Screening: 1917
Announcements & Reminders:
Quiz on Editing on Thursday
Wednesday 4/24
Agenda:
1:10-1:45 Watch / Read / Take Notes On:
…and “The Camera Does The Thinking for Us” from David Foster's "Reading the Silver Screen."
Studiobinder.com article on camera angles (ignore the video at the top on how to make a shot list; that's not relevant for us).
1:45-2:30 Screening: 1917
Announcements & Reminders:
Quiz on Editing Tomorrow
Thursday 4/25
Agenda:
Quiz on Editing
Screening: 1917
Friday 4/26
Agenda:
Watch Take Notes On:
CBS Sunday Morning’s feature on Garret Brown, inventor of the steadicam.
If you're into it, you can watch this piece (optional) where Brown talks at greater length about using the steadicam to shoot Rocky.
This famous clip from "Silence of the Lambs" where FBI trainee Clarice Starling first visits the notorious psychologist/serial killer Hannibal Lector to ask for his help profiling another murderer. And Tony Zhou's video essay on the effect of camera angle on this scene.
Studiobinder's "Different Types of Camera Shots and Angles in Film". There's a lot of info here, but we don't have time to cover everything. So you can ignore the sections on "framing" and "lenses," but you should pay attention to "shots," "angles," "focus," and especially "movement" (including the handheld shot) and click on at least a few examples of each.
Screening: 1917
Week 2: How Movies Happened / Editing
Monday 4/15
Agenda:
Martin Scorsese's 2013 Jefferson Lecture (This should start & stop automatically, covering the portion that you need to watch).
'The Godfather" Continued:
The Horse-Head Scene (breakdown & preview of what we'll study throughout the course)
Screening Continued
Announcements & Reminders:
Note-Taking Exercise Due Today.
Parent-Permission Form Due Today.
Quiz on 'How Movies Happened' on Wednesday
Tuesday 4/16
Agenda:
Group Notes on 'How Movies Happened'
'The Godfather" Continued
Announcements & Reminders:
Quiz on 'How Movies Happened' Tomorrow
Wednesday 4/17
Agenda:
Quiz on 'How Movies Happened'
'The Godfather" Continued
Announcements & Reminders:
Thursday 4/18
Agenda:
'The Godfather" Continued
Friday 4/19
Agenda:
Studiobinder’s:
'The Godfather" Continued
Week 1: How Movies Happened
Thursday 4/11
Agenda:
Course Intro (Reviewing The Syllabus)
First-Day Questionnaire
Sign up for Turnitin.com. Class code: 43440120 / Enrollment Key: cartystudent
Complete this note-taking exercise on Crash Course's "Movies Are Magic." *Due in Turnitin by the beginning of class on Wednesday.
Announcements & Reminders:
Note-Taking Exercise Due Monday.
Parent-Permission Form Due Monday.
Friday, 4/12
Agenda:
Watch & take notes on Crash Course's "The First Movie Camera."
Watch/take notes on this excerpt from Martin Scorsese's 2013 Jefferson Lecture (the section you need to see (4:24-23:06 will start and stop automatically).
*You won't turn these notes in for credit, but they'll be good to have on hand the first quiz.
...Screening
Announcements & Reminders:
Note-Taking Exercise Due Monday.
Parent-Permission Form Due Monday.
Quiz on 'How Movies Happened' on Wednesday.