Pleasantville

Pleasantville Homework - Questions Due on Monday 10/1 (use chart for help)
      Monday - Reviews on Pleasantville and Powerpoint
                     - Writing Assignment Due Friday 10/5

Journals #5: Another St. Vincent video

We've Got to See This...ASAP!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Rr1l1NgQH4s#!

Society & TV #1: TV pre 1950s

This clip evinces the vaudevillian style of 1940s television. The "fade" shot at the end, however, shows that already, production was flirting with the "new" possibilities of broadcast media.



Things to consider:

1. The cities included in NBC network (location)
2. Why did the man from Albuquerque call? What do they mean "film in Memphis?"
3. Notice how all advertisements were incorporated INTO the programming?
4. Who's Howdy's voice?
5. Imagine watching people tack cities onto a wooden board....TODAY.



Things to consider:

1. Time.
2. Testimonial.
3. Audio.
4. Visuals.
5. Special note about deodorant and toothpaste commercials
6. social significance of automaker's commercial.

Writing the Review

How to write a good film review (courtesy of Film Education's Young Film Critics Competition)

As you are watching the film, be prepared to make notes. It’s much easier to write a review if you have some notes about the key scenes and characters to remind you.

1. 1. Focus on explaining how you were entertained by the film.

Journal #2: Six Dull Movie Recipe Cliches: Create Yr Own

http://www.flavorwire.com/312728/movie-recipes-how-to-make-6-cliched-types-of-films

Journal #1: Shot Choice & Weird...but cool...music videos

Local Film Events

The Lynne Theatre in Cape May is hosting a Buster Keaton silent film viewing with live organ music! Culture! Right here in SJ!

Welcome Class of 2013!

Welcome to the Film Institute...We are so happy you are here! You are now a part of Oakcrest's most popular and longest running Small Learning Community. Here at the FI, we strive to bring you a solid, multi-disciplinary, college preparatory education through the examination and creation of film. We have tons to learn, so let's jump right in!

1. Citizen Kane: Highly and almost universally regarded as the most important and most critically acclaimed American film of all time, we will bookend our course with Orson Welles' opus. In other words, it will be the first and last film we watch. The first time we watch it, beginning later this week, we will say and do nothing. We will not preface it. We will not provide historical context. We will simply show it. Why? Because I am interested to see how much (or how little) you recognize it as great cinema now...and well, I bet you could figure out my motives.

2. How to Take Notes in Film. This is an art-form quite unlike anything its literary or acadmeic counterparts. Here is some advice from Bryn Mawr College that I find useful. Reading this and being prepared to discuss it some time this week is your first homework assignment, besides printing your syllabus and the survey.

Film is a Visual, Literary Art