Film Project: Day 3; Rear Window (Day 1)

This morning, please continue to work on your film projects. Get together with your group and/or move forward with the following:

Producers: make sure the film project is going forward to meet your deadline (end of week next week!); Assist your director! Make sure your editor knows what production company this student film will be called. Ex. Paramount Pictures, RKO Pictures, Castlerock Entertainment, Disney Studios, MGM, etc. Watch this video:

• Producers: Crash Course #6

Directors: make sure you move the film project forward. When are you shooting the film? What film has been handed over to your editor? Are the shots your director of photography (cinematographer) shot appropriate for the film? Is the script done? Do the actors know their lines? Etc. Watch this video:

• Directors: Crash Course #7

Cinematographer/director of photography: shoot your film. Train yourself to shoot appropriate footage with style... Watch these videos:

• Cinematographers: Crash Course #8
• Visual storytelling 101
• Cinematography 101 (Rocketjump)
• Rules of framing & composition

Editor(s): select your still files or shots, begin editing any film footage your director or cinematographer has given you. Complete your opening/ending credits. Watch this video:

• The Editor: Crash Course #11
• 10 Lessons from Top Film Editors

Sound Editor: select your music files for diegetic and non-diegetic sound effects. Record your actors' dialogue for scenes that did not sound good.

• Sound Production: Crash Course #5

Actors: learn your lines for each scene given to you. Show up at the shoot with your props/costumes ready to film.

Writers: complete your script and share this with your director/producer and the actors in your group.

You might find these videos helpful (that is, watch them!) Some of this material will be on your final exam!

• The Filmmaker's Army (Crash Course #3)
• Visual Storytelling 101 (from above)

In the 50's Alfred Hitchcock went on to make these films: Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), and North By Northwest (1959)

Read the article on Rear Window (handout). Material from this and the Rope article (as well as some of the videos--see film review above) will be on the final exam (see above). We will be screening the first part of Rear Window around 8:05.


James Stewart...    L.B. 'Jeff' Jefferies
Grace Kelly...        Lisa Fremont
Wendell Corey...   Detective Thomas J. Doyle
Thelma Ritter...     Stella
Raymond Burr...   Lars Thorwald
Judith Evelyn...     Miss Lonelyhearts
Ross Bagdasarian... Songwriter
Georgine Darcy...  Miss Torso
Sara Berner...        Woman on Fire Escape
Frank Cady...        Man on Fire Escape
Jesslyn Fax...        Miss Hearing Aid
Rand Harper/Havis Davenport... Newlyweds

HOMEWORK: Continue working on your film projects. Read the articles/handouts on Hitchcock: for Rear Window (& Rope);  "About Hitchcock", Anecdotes, and "Alfred Hitchcock and the making of a film culture". Read the article on "The Emergence of TV" & "HUAC".