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Film 1: Homework

HW: Final Pitch Package

Pitch Package Project
File Size: 1297 kb
File Type: pdf
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HW17: Music Video Concepts

Brainstorm a music video concept

Requirements:
  1. Complete the worksheet:
  2. Be sure to research required information about the song you'd like to use
  3. Consider a High Concept and Low Concept version of your music video
  4. Be prepared to pitch your ideas to your group

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Music Video Concept Brainstorming
File Size: 420 kb
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HW16: Video Notes

View the 16 minute video on Color in Storytelling

Requirements:
  1. Complete notes on the video in your journal
  2. Be prepared to respond to quiz questions regarding the video's content

HW15: Video Notes

View the 18 minute video on the Changing Shape of Cinema

Requirements:
  1. Complete notes on the video in your journal
  2. Be prepared to respond to quiz questions regarding the video's content
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HW14: Favorite Genre Film Review

​Choose a film in one of your favorite film genres to view & review 

Requirements:
  1. Complete the film review questionnaire
  2. On the back:
    1. consider 3 ways in which this film works within the genre's norms
    2. consider 3 ways in which this film breaks from the genre's norm
    3. describe your understanding of the filmmakers artistic voice: based on the visual and auditory storytelling, what were they hoping to affect in the audience?
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HW13: Unit 6 Notes

Read and gather notes from the Unit 6 presentation on the genres of Film Noir, Neorealism, & Hitchcock

Requirements:
  1. Complete notes on the presentation in your journal
  2. Be prepared to respond to quiz questions regarding the content
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​​HW12: Lighting Design Review

View a film or television show of your choosing and complete the lighting review

​Requirements:
  1. Copy & complete the film lighting design review questionnaire in your journal
Lighting Design Review
File Size: 295 kb
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HW11: Unit 5 Notes

Read and gather notes from the Unit 5 presentation on Breaking Rules & Inventing New Ones.

Requirements:
  1. Complete notes on the presentation in your journal
  2. Be prepared to respond to quiz questions regarding the content
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HW11: Set Review

View a TV Show of your choosing and discuss the set design's strengths and weaknesses. 

Requirements:
1. Complete the Set Design Review
Set Design Review
File Size: 289 kb
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HW9: Unit 4 Notes

Read and gather notes from the Unit 4 presentation on the Breaking the Silence.

Requirements:
  1. Complete notes on the presentation in your journal
  2. Be prepared to respond to quiz questions regarding the content
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HW8: To Do List

Check Aeries to ensure all your classwork, homework, and projects are completed and turned-in as we approach Mid-Terms. 
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HW7: Film Review

​Watch Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) in class and complete the worksheet noting moments of montage in the film
​

​Requirements:
  1. Complete the film review questionnaire
  2. Watch for 6 distinct examples of montage
  3. Describe each montage sequence and tell of its subsequent effect on the audience
"Metropolis"
Film Review
File Size: 96 kb
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HW6: Unit Notes

Read and gather notes from the Unit 3 presentation on the Mastering the Shot. Additionally, re-view the 2 informational videos to gather notes in your journal.

Requirements:
  1. Complete notes on the presentation in your journal
  2. Be prepared to respond to quiz questions regarding the video's content
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HW4: Film Review

Watch George Méliès' A Trip to the Moon (1902).

Requirements:
  1. Complete the film review questionnaire
  2. Compare and contrast, in writing on the back of the worksheet, the elements of the film that are real and the elements that are artifice
  3. Give 3 examples of each (reality & artifice)
Film Review
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A Trip to the Moon 
​(George 
Méliès,1902)

HW3: Actor Review

Watch a TV show or film (30 min. or more) and review the work of a single actor.
Actor Review
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Stage and screen actors are highly trained professionals who must consider many aspects of their character to the role convincingly.

HW2: Unit 1 Notes

Read and gather notes from the Unit 1 presentation on the Origins of Film

Requirements:
  1. Complete notes on the presentation in your journal
  2. Notebook check for notes is on Thursday
  3. Be prepared to respond to quiz questions regarding the video's content at the end of the unit
Early fimmakers with their camera.

HW1: My App Logo

​Create a personal logo, using thoughtful attention to details, to help convey the real you. This will become your online icon for your personal blog reflection page.
My App Logo - Brainstorm
File Size: 383 kb
File Type: pdf
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My App Logo - Final
File Size: 225 kb
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Student examples of personalized logos.
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Instructor

Chris Hanks
Stage & Screen Pathways​
CTE Department Chair
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Contact

chanks@wusd.k12.ca.us
(916) 375-7800 x2753
​Remind App: see home page
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Location

River City High School
1 Raider Lane
West Sacramento, CA 95691
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    • [NAME OF PODCAST]
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