Short Film #2 - Signs
Directions:
Answer the question (Film Viewing Sheet in your binder) about this film in your journal.
Answer the question (Film Viewing Sheet in your binder) about this film in your journal.
- Label your entry: Short Film Signs
- Date Your Entry: ____/_____/_____
Short Film #3 - Death of the Tinman
Directions:
Answer the question (Film Viewing Sheet in your binder) about this film in your journal.
Answer the question (Film Viewing Sheet in your binder) about this film in your journal.
- Label your entry: Short Film Signs
- Date Your Entry: ____/_____/_____
Short film #4 - Spam-Ku
Directions:
Below are a few links I hope that you can view this and the video loads. If not then use today as a day to clean and organize your binder or as a study hall.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4d7n9_spam-ku_shortfilms
http://vimeo.com/37887766
http://www.spike.com/video-clips/06805i/spam-ku
Answer the following questions about the film in your journal (please label and date your entry):
Below are a few links I hope that you can view this and the video loads. If not then use today as a day to clean and organize your binder or as a study hall.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4d7n9_spam-ku_shortfilms
http://vimeo.com/37887766
http://www.spike.com/video-clips/06805i/spam-ku
Answer the following questions about the film in your journal (please label and date your entry):
- Please summarize in a paragraph or less what the film was about explicitly and implicitly.
- As you watch the film, be alert to the overall design plan and mise-en-scene and your emotional response to them. Choose one scene and analyze it through the elements of mise-en-scene.
- Do you notice anything about particular about your chosen scene’s presentation of cinematic space – What you see on the screen? Are there a lot of landscapes or close up shots? Is the camera moving or static? What types of camera movements are present? Use specific examples.
- How does the director’s use of lighting help to create meaning/ emotion? Focus on a chosen scene.
- Keep track of the camera angles other than eye level shots. If there are high or low angle shots, determine whether of not they are POV shots. That is, is the high or low angle shot meant to represent another characters point of view? If so, what does the angle convey about that character’s state of mind? If not, what does it convey about the person in thing in the frame?
- Choose one scene. Keep track of instances in which the film uses shots other than medium shots(MS) – for instance, extreme close up (ECU) or extreme long shot (ELS). What role are these shots playing in the film.
- Pay close attention to the length of shots in the film. Is there a recognizable pattern? Are long takes used? To what extent? For what purpose? Choose one scene and analyze the length of the shots.
- Pay attention to the composition of the shots within the scene. Are the compositions balanced in a way that conforms to the rule of thirds, or are the elements within the frame arranged in a less “painterly” composition? In either case, try to describe how the composition contributes to the scene overall.
- List and describe three diegetic and non-diegetic elements from the film and their impact on the film’s narrative.
- How does the filmmaker present the issues of class? Discuss cinematically.
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