Literature Through FilmLearning Target Goals
Students will understand how to effectively examine and actively view films. Students will enhance their visual literacy skills through the exploration of film history, genres, themes, cinematic elements, and film terminology. Detroit Can Film Festival ymcadetroit.org/initiatives/detroit-can-film-festival/ 4th Hour Homework: Thursday 7th Hour Homework: Friday Late Work Information 1 Day Late: 10% Deduction 2 Days Late: 20% Deduction 3 Days or More: 30% Deduction Common Core Standards Reading for Information RL.11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. RL.11-12.2 Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. RL.11-12.3 Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed). Writing W.11-12.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. W.11-12.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. W.11-12.3.A Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation and its significance, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events. Speaking & Listening SL.11-12.1. a Come to discussions prepared having read and researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence from texts and other research on the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned exchange of ideas. SL.11-12.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning, alternative or opposing perspectives are addressed, and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and a range of formal and informal tasks. SL.11-12.5 Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. Resources
Genres
Action Characteristics of action films include high energy, physical stunts and chases, rescues, battles, fights, and escapes. It also includes races against time, non-stop motion, fast rhythm, and pacing. Horror Horror films are designed to frighten and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Comedy Comedies are light-hearted plots deliberately designed to amuse and provoke laughter by exaggerating the situation, language, action, relationships, and characters. Drama Dramas are serious, plot-driven films, portraying realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense character development and interaction. Animation Animated films are characterized by individual drawings, paintings, or illustrations that are photographed frame by frame. Musical Musicals/dance films are cinematic forms that are centered on combinations of music, dance, song, or choreography. Adventure Adventure films are exciting stories with new experiences or exotic locales. Sports Dramatic sports films have a sports setting, arena, a competitive event, and an athlete that are central and predominant in the story. Biography Biography films depict and dramatize the life of an important historical person or group from the past or present era. Mystery Mystery is a genre that involves a mysterious death or a crime to be solved. Thrillers and suspense movies are known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. Fantasy Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. Romance Romance films are love stories or affairs of the heart that center on passion, emotion, and affectionate involvement of the main characters. Science Fiction Science Fiction films are often quasi-scientific, visionary, and imaginative. They include heroes, aliens, distant planets, quests, fantastic places, new technology, or extraordinary monsters. Thriller Thrillers and suspense movies are known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. Crime Crime films feature the sinister actions of criminals, mobsters, bank robbers, underworld figures, and ruthless hoodlums. They operate outside the law and morality of society. Family Family - Oriented films are non-offensive, wholesome, and entertaining. Music A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. Music can be divided into different genres in many different ways. Documentary Documentaries are non-fictional works of art. War War and Anti-War Films often acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting or conflict (against nations or humankind) provide the primary plot or background for the action of the film. History The historical period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people. Western Westerns are the major defining genre of the American film industry, a nostalgic eulogy to the early days of the expansive, untamed American frontier (the borderline between civilization and the wilderness). Semester One Quarter 1 Module 1 Introduction to Film The Birth of Cinema: The Silent Era Elements of Silent Film Silent Film Feature: Nosferatu Quarter 1 Module 2 The Harlem Renaissance Black Hollywood Oscar Micheaux Film Selections Murder in Harlem: Oscar Micheaux Lying Lips: Oscar Micheaux Quarter 2 Module 3 The Introduction of Sound The Musical and The Golden Age of Film Musical: West Side Story Quarter 2 Module 4A Characteristics of Film Noir Impact by Arthur Lubin The Stranger by Orson Welles Semester Two Quarter 3 Module 4B Tim Burton Films Batman Returns Planet of the Apes (2001) Corpse Bride Beetlejuice Wednesday Module 5 Film Editing Horror, Suspense, and Melodrama Characteristics of Horror Alfred Hitchcock The Birds Psycho Characteristics of Mystery and Suspense Steven Speilberg Jaws Alejandro Amenabar The Others Characteristics of Drama Gone With the Wind Imitation of Life Quarter 3 Module 6 Short Films and Animation Disney and Pixar Anastasia Raya and the Last Dragon The Princess and the Frog Moana Inside Out Beauty and the Beast Brave Soul Encanto Coco The Lion King Aladdin The Incredibles Elemental Mulan Quarter 4 Module 7 The Documentary Elements of Documentary Film Quarter 4 Module 8 The Business of Film: Block Busters Scripts Budgets Executive Producers Producers Directors Elements of Block Buster Films |
Communication Exercise - Online Discussion 1
Would you consider the invention of “moving pictures” to be important to the world? Explain. What future inventions may be important to the world? Explain
Would you consider the invention of “moving pictures” to be important to the world? Explain. What future inventions may be important to the world? Explain