Monday, May 4, 2009

Marking Period Exam - Film

There will be an exam on Thursday covering the major points we examined this marking period. Use the list below to help you.

--Standard script formatting
--1930's film
--Sound and sound invention
--Technicolor and color in film
--1940's film (The Golden Age of Film)
--Camera Angles
--Montage
--Generating ideas for film (from handout)
--Film Aesthetics
--Mise-en-scene
--Mise-en-shot
--Deep focus
--Continuity editing
--Diagetic and non-diegetic sound
--Narrative structure
--Restricted/Omniscient narration
--Auteur
--The Music Box (Laurel & Hardy)
--King Kong
--Universal horror: Frankenstein, Dracula, etc.
--Marx Brothers: Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera
--Screwball comedy and techniques
--Film Noir and technique
--Walt Disney and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
--Orson Welles and Citizen Kane
--John Huston and The Maltese Falcon
--HUAC
--The Emergence of Television and its effect on film

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