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DISCUSSION: FILM STRUCTURE AND THEME
REMINDERS:
BE CREATIVE
WHAT ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT?
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX
SCRIPT FROM A NEW PERSPECTIVE
INSPIRE OTHERS
NEW!! Have MagicSchool AI help you decide what you want your film topic to be! See below for the login information.
FILM VOCABULARY TO KNOW
Script: refers to the written text of a film - detailing the story, setting, dialogue, and sequence of all events in the film
Plot: refers to a series of dramatic events or actions that make up a film's narrative;
Hook: the hook is what grabs the viewer's attention, preferably in the first 5–10 min
Suspense: to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, uncertainty, and nerve-wracking tension
Perspective: a point of view or way of seeing the world
Confrontation: "rising action", typically depicts the actors attempt to resolve the problem
Resolution: the outcome, refers to how things turned out for all of the characters
Film Techniques and Inspiration
Film Styles_Techniques_2016.mov (Film Guild 2021-2022)Lesson 2: Message and IMPORTANT tips from Ms. Montgomery
FG_Lesson_Wk3.mp4
Use MagicSchool A.I. to help you generate ideas for your Film Topic!
Scan the QR Code to get to MagicSchool to use these tools. If the QR Code doesn't work. Please have the students touch this URL to launch it: https://student.magicschool.ai/s/join?joinCode=sJ2Piw
Mentors:
Feel free to print the "Flushing out" document for your students to fill out individually
FLUSHING OUT YOUR IDEAS! FINDING YOUR FILM TOPIC
After watching the videos, please either use the linked document and print it out or read the three prompts and type your answers in Pages or Notes where you can share it with your Mentor teacher.
Name: ____________________________________
Write down AS MANY AS YOU CAN - all the things you like to do!
Write down all the topics you know a lot about. Could be items like trains or cars etc., or could be about something you do as a hobby like fishing or skateboarding.
If you know what you want to do your film on please write it here:
After listening to the names and titles of films that have been nominated in the past, what is an interest you have that you could create a film about?
Here is a link to a Google Doc that students can make a copy of and then work in:
FILM IS A THREE ACT STRUCTURE
Some people like to call them the beginning, middle, and end, which is not inaccurate, BUT the point of the ACTS are to make sure the story evolves and the stakes get higher.
FILM STRUCTURE
IntroStructure.mp4THEME
Theme.mp4Theme - Act 1, Act 2, Act 3
What was the crisis?
How is it resolved?
How does the main character demonstrate that they learned what they needed?
What was the theme or moral?
Was the character arc emotionally satisfying? Why or why not?
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