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Course Description:
Students investigate how and what ideas, values and concepts are connected through film. In analyzing film, students will examine elements of plot, setting, style, and point of view. Class activities include viewing, listening, researching and analyzing film. Recommended before taking Video Production. District film policy requires parental permission before students can participate in the classroom viewing.
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Extra Credit: See any Independent Film as listed at a Landmark Theatre or the Starz film center, check the newspaper. (Esquire Theatre, Mayan Theatre, Stars Theatre and U-Hills Theatre.) |
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Required parental signature. |
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Film terms and definitions used in this course. |
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Essential Learning's/Percentage of course |
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Colorado Model Content Standards for Theatre |
Assignment List
| DATE ASSIGNED |
ASSIGNMENT |
DATE DUE |
| 08/19/08 |
Cover letter (25 pts) |
08/25/08 |
| 08/19/08 |
OT Singing In The Rain (100 pts) |
09/01/08 |
| 08/25/08 |
OT Film History (100 pts) |
09/01/08 |
| 08/29/08 |
OT The Fisher King (100 pts) |
09/11/08 |
| 09/08/08 |
OT Boyz N The Hood (100 pts) |
09/14/08 |
| 09/15/08 |
OT Crash (100 pts) |
09/21/08 |
| 09/18/08 |
OT Stand By Me (100 pts) |
10/01/08 |
| 09/24/08 |
OT Bowling for Columbine (100 pts) |
10/01/08 |
| 09/29/08 |
OT Pirates of the Caribbean (100 pts) |
10/07/08 |
| 10/06/08 |
OT This Film is Not Rated (100 pts) |
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Completed Lesson |
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How to take the Online Tests
Handout by Mr. Seller |
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Film History and Terminology
Lecture notes by Mr. Seller |
Directions for viewing the PowerPoint presentations. Select the presentation that matches the PowerPoint application on your computer. Click 'save' when prompted. Open the PowerPoint presentation from your computer applications, and click on the presentation that you have selected to view.
Theatre History PowerPoint (MS-2003). Studio Systems, Productions, Shots and Technicolor PowerPoint (MS-2003). Successful Note taking hints PowerPoint. (MS-2007 & MS-2003).
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As Good As It Gets, 1997
Directed by James Brooks |
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Boys Don't Cry, 1999
Directed by Kimberly Pierce |
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Boyz In The Hood, 1991
Directed by John Singleton |
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Bowling for Columbine, 2002
Directed by Michael Moore |
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Cellular, 2004
Directed by David R. Ellis |
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Crash, 2004
Directed by Paul Hagis |
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Chicago, 2002
Directed by Rob Marshal |
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Daylight,1996
Directed by Rob Cohen |
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Dead Again, 1991
Directed by Kenneth Branagh |
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Dirty Dancing, 1987
Directed by Emile Ardolino |
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Departed, The, 2006
Directed by Martin Scorsese |
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Dreamgirls, 2006
Directed by Billy Conden |
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Eternal Sunshine, 2004
Directed by Michel Gondry |
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Evita,1996
Directed by Alan Parker |
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Fargo, 1996
Directed by Joel Cohen |
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Fisher King, The, 1991
Directed by Terry Gilliam |
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Gold Rush, 1925
Directed by Charlie Chaplin |
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I Am Sam, 2001
Directed by Jessie Nelson |
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Life is Beautiful, 1997
Directed by Roberto Benigni |
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Lost Boys, The, 1987
Directed by Joel Schumacher |
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Maria Full of Grace, 2004
Directed by Joshua Marston |
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Moulin Rouge, 2001
Directed by Baz Luhrmann |
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Opposite of Sex, The, 1998
Directed by Don Roos |
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Osama, 2003
Directed by Siddig Barmak |
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Pirates of the Caribbean, 2003
Directed by Gore Verbinski |
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Platoon, 1986
Directed by Oliver Stone |
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Rosewood, 1997
Directed by John Singleton |
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Singin' in the Rain, 1952
Directed by Stanley Donen |
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Scream, 1996
Directed by Wes Craven |
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Some Like It Hot, 1959
Directed by Billy Wilder |
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Stand By Me, 1986
Directed by Rob Reiner |
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This Film is Not Yet Rated, 2006
Directed by Kirby Dick |
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War Games, 1983
Directed byJohn Badham |
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Film Research sites
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Film Site |
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Internet Movie Data Base |
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Movie Gazette |
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Cinema.com |
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Sense of Cinema |
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Celebrity search |
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Academy of Motion Pictures |
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Rotten Tomatoes |
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Hollywood Foreign Press |
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Motion Picture Association of America |
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