lesson: Daylight, 1996 

Plot Summary: When a bunch of runaway robbers in a getaway car hit the tunnel connecting Manhatten and New Jersey. Trouble strikes when they hit a truck full of explosions. After the impact, the tunnel is left weakened and blocked off by both exits, but leaving some survivors. When Kit Latura was about to drive into the tunnel he see the impact and knows he gotta take action. He is given the job, and is sent into the tunnel, but time is running out. Can he get the survivors out before the tunnel fills up? Written by Bryanne Marks

Students will analyze the movie Daylight. Rob Cohen directs another film which relies heavily on special effects to tell this story. Time will be devoted to a discussion surrounding the great disaster movies of the 1970's and the use of Computer Generated Imagery and model making. Film terminology will be presented as they are demonstrated in the exhibition of the motion picture.