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