Student Choice Friday

Student Choice Friday: We are going to do one of the following activities tomorrow. I will let you decide. Vote via Twitter. Use #FIchoice (and @joecostal if you can). If you don't have a Twitter account, have someone in class do it for you. Voting will end tonight at 8pm. All you need to tweet is the option number.

Option 1: Watch part of The Making of Dark Side of the Moon. A fascinating documentary about the engineering, people and genius behind the album.

Option 2: Rewatch The Dark Side of Oz, making sure we fit the whole thing in this time.

Option 3: We can watch the beginning of the Wizard of Oz now that we have heard dark side over it, it may be a more revealing experience.

Option 4: Making of the Wizard of Oz documentary that gives a revealing look at the studio-era classic.

Dark Side of the Film Institute

Hey FIers -- Don't forget...Dark Side quiz tomorrow. Here is a refresher of the questions.

1. Choose a song from the album and discuss its significance to the analysis/annotation you conducted last night. In other words, how does the song evince the overall theme of the album. What emotional connections did you draw between the song and the experience of listening to the entire album.

2. Choose a dominant impression or thematic thread you found in the album. Discuss specifically how this thread came across in certain songs, lyrics, or motifs.

3. Discuss all of the ways that the album could be considered "innovative" or "progressive." Be sure to draw specific parallels between the technical and thematic aspects. 

Yes!!!!!! & Weekend Assignment

Assignment for the weekend: Assignment is exactly the same as it was for Sgt. Pepper's. Listen, annotate, draw connections, think of our five components of artistic expression. Live tweet at #FIDark



The concept album...perfected!

Pearl Jam, Poe and Perspective

Beatles Analysis Day

1.THEME 2. TONE 3. COMPOSITION                              4. CONSTRUCTION 5. INFLUENCE

Sgt Pepper Quiz: 

Answer just one of the following questions in a well-developed paragraph (approximately 3/4 a page). For each, please be sure to reference the album directly as often as you can. The more specific, the better. 

1. Choose a song from the album and discuss its significance to the analysis/annotation you conducted last night. In other words, how does the song evince the overall theme of the album. What emotional connections did you draw between the song and the experience of listening to the entire album.

2. Choose a dominant impression or thematic thread you found in the album. Discuss specifically how this thread came across in certain songs, lyrics, or motifs.

3. Discuss all of the ways that the album could be considered "innovative" or "progressive." Be sure to draw specific parallels between the

Tuesday Film Assignment: Beatles and Motion-makers

The Beatles Sgt. Pepper album annotation assignment.

Your annotations should focus on the music as part of a larger unit -- the album, or more specifically, the concept album. Consider the following:

1. Is there a thematic thread that runs throughout the songs of the album?
2. Are there dominant images that run throughout the album? If so, what are they?
3. In what ways do you think the album is innovative or progressive?
4. What emotional responses did you find yourself having while listening to the album.

Notes will be collected tomorrow in class. Please share your thoughts and discuss this assignment as you are doing it by using #FISgtPep

CONGRATULATIONS JOE LaCERRA -- TWEXTRA CREDIT! Now one of our class winners. 

Fantasy Film Producer...Again

http://flavorwire.com/380182/sonys-top-10-amateur-action-flicks

Monday, April 8th: Ebert and the skinny on journals

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/13/140437328/ebert-a-life-still-being-lived-and-fully

http://www.npr.org/2013/04/05/176339792/roger-ebert-in-review-a-fresh-air-survey

Call me crazy, but I expect that there will be some drama about journals DESPITE THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE HAD ALL YEAR TO WORK ON THESE. Keep in mind the following truths that may help guide your procrastination: 

Each journal is worth 4 points. 

Each day late = loss of ten points. 

Do the math!

Goodfellas Essential Questions: 

1. How does Scorcese innovate technically through the specific use of long shots and sound editing?

2. How does the film accentuate The Godfather's themes of "American dream" and "identity?"

Alternate Journal Assignment

This assignment is for anyone looking for an alternate for a missed journal.

Panic Attack to the Evil Dead Remake (Reimaging...Reimagining...Whatever)

http://m.startribune.com/?id=200632181









http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/03/youtube-director-fede-alvarez-cuts-teeth-with-the-evil-dead-reboot





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