Film Projects Due; Citizen Kane

Period 1: Please complete and upload your film projects to Youtube. Send me the URL for your company's film in the comment section below.

• Did you remember to:
• Put opening credits (with a title) in your film? NOTE: usually the production company's name is first, followed by the producer's name, followed by actors, writers, and directors.
• Spellcheck your intertitles?
• Put end credits (with entire cast, editors, designers, cinematographers, credit for music scores, clips, etc. as well as information from the opening credits)
• Upload your MP4 film file to Youtube (make sure it can be viewed by the public...)

If you are done during the lab, please catch up on so much material we covered in the last month...

Things you may have missed...View what you might have missed. There's a lot of stuff here. Scroll through and take notes.

Video hints for film projects:

• Director: How to Direct
• Director/Producer: How to Schedule a Film
• Director/Producer: How to Plan a Movie (pre-production)
• Director/Cinematographer: How to Shoot a Short Film
• Cinematographer: Shooting Tips
• Cinematographer: Tips for Cinematography
• Cinematographer: Tips for Angles & Locations
• Cinematographers/Editors: Cuts and Transitions 101
• Editors & Cinematographer: Continuity Editing
• Writers: Story Telling Tips
• Actors: Acting in Film #1 (a variety of resources--check the film clips in the group)
• Actors: Acting in Film #2 (acting tips from Michael Caine)

Movie Maker tutorials:

Working with audio files for MovieMaker (video tutorial)

• Add/Edit audio (Microsoft's instructions)
• Adding music (video)
• Extracting audio clips/files
• Splitting/splicing clips (video)
• Combining clips
• Export files
• Adding both music and voice over in Windows Movie Maker (video tutorial; addressing problems)
• How to add two layers of audio in Moviemaker (video)
• Saving files to an MP4 format (video)
• Youtube audio/video file converter to MP3

Other important films by Orson Welles:

• The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (snowride scene)
• Macbeth (1948)
• The Third Man (1949), Ferris Wheel Scene...remember Baltimore Waltz?
• Othello (1952)
• Mr. Arkadin (1955)
• Touch of Evil (1958)

1930's Golden Age films:

Hell's Angels (1930) Premiere clip (not the film, but the hubbub about the film)
Hell's Angels (1930) clip with Jean Harlow
Anna Christie (1930) With Greta Garbo
Tarzan, The Ape Man (1932) Johnny Weissmuller
Morocco (1930) with Marlene Dietrich
Grand Hotel (1932) with Joan Crawford & John Barrymore
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Clark Gable & Charles Laughton
Captain Blood (1935) with Errol Flynn & Basil Rathbone (documentary clip)

• Flowers and Trees (1932) 
• Disney's The Three Little Pigs (1933)
• About Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (short historical bio)
• Ferdinand, the Bull (1938, Oscar Winner)
• Scene from Pinocchio (1940)
• Scene from Fantasia, The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1940)

Universal Horror Films:
Dracula (1931) Bela Lugosi (Tod Browning's version)
Dracula (clip 2)
Frankenstein (1931) with Boris Karloff
Frankenstein (2nd clip)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1932) with Boris Karloff
Bride of Frankenstein (2nd clip)
Freaks (1932) Tod Browning director
The White Zombie (1932) Bela Lugosi
The Mummy (1932) Boris Karloff
The Invisible Man (1933) with Claude Rains

Screwball Comedies:
The Thin Man (1934) with Myrna Loy & William Powell
A Night At the Opera (cabin scene) (1935)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) with Katharine Hepburn & Cary Grant; & another clip
His Girl Friday (1940), another clip, & another clip from the film (good dialogue scene), Cary Grant & Rosalind Russell
The Women (1939); here's the trailer for the film.

Frank Capra films:
It Happened One Night (1934) Claudette Colbert & Clark Gable
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Gary Cooper
Lost Horizon (1937) and clips from the film...
You Can't Take it With You (1938) with a very young Jimmy Stewart
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) with Jimmy Stewart

Gangster Films:
The Public Enemy (1931) (full film, extra credit option)
Scarface (1932)

Westerns:
Cimarron (1930)
Stagecoach (1939) John Wayne (John Ford directing)

War Films:
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Musicals:
The Gay Divorcee (1934) Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire
Top Hat (1935) Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire
Swing Time (1936) Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire (again)
42 Street (1933)

Animation:
Popeye the Sailor (1933) with Betty Boop (and Popeye, of course)
Porky Pig & Gabby (1937)
Prest-O Change-O (early Bugs Bunny) (1939)
Daffy Duck & the Dinosaur (1939)

Blockbuster Technicolor films:
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) with Errol Flynn

Alfred Hitchcock 1930's films:
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Sabotage (the suspenseful bomb scene) (1936)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Period 2: Citizen Kane (1941); we will screen Citizen Kane in the classroom today. Turn in your homework from last class. See the previous post for details.

HOMEWORK: Complete the Citizen Kane script handed to you in Wednesday's class. Please view any clips/videos you did not view in previous classes.