Activities

Readings

Short articles/critiques on specific films & stars (#1-5)


Interactive/Collaborative Work

Storyboarding various scenarios in different ways (#2,3)


Independent Work

Worksheets, viewing guides for specific films (#2, 3)


Writing

Short papers on specific films (#1-5)

Scenes in screenplay format (#2 3)


Multimedia Screenings

  • Documentaries on Early Hollywood,

Genre overview & director styles,

The Studio System, Robert Evans, Irving Thalberg

  • Sherlock Jr.
  • City Lights
  • The Crowd
  • The Unknown
  • Golddiggers of '33
  • Singin' In The Rain
  • The Bandwagon
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
  • The Searchers
  • The Naked Spur
  • Unforgiven
  • Dirty Harry
  • Scarface (1932)
  • The Roaring Twenties
  • Bonnie & Clyde
  • Goodfellas
  • Rear Window
  • North By Northwest
  • The Front
  • On The Waterfront
  • Chinatown
  • The Bad & The Beautiful
  • Duck Soup
  • A Night At The Opera
  • The Player

Major Assignments

Analytic Choices (Learning Targets #1-5)

Comparative paper on comic styles of Chaplin & Keaton

Critique of a film viewed outside of class, analyzing the shot sequence of a single scene

Critique of a film viewed outside of class, analyzing the visual development of a particular character through action

Short paper analyzing particular moral themes depicted in a student chosen Gangster genre film viewed outside class

Short paper analyzing producer Irving Thalberg's signatures on the Marx Brothers in A Night At The Opera


Creative Choices (Learning Targets #2, 3)

Storyboarding the same set of action different ways for different genres

Translating storyboard to screenplay format

Compiling a sequential shot list from a screenplay format