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FILM 1: CONTENT

Fall Mid-Term

Mid-Term Exam
Bonus Points

​​Unit 7: Widescreen & the American New Wave

Essential Questions:
What was the effect of television on cinema?
What does screen size do to directorial choices and the visual storytelling of film?

Key Terms:
-Academy ratio
-Standard screen format
-Widescreen
-Letterbox
-Pan and scan
-CinemaScope
-Aspect ratios of 1:1.33, 1:1.85, & 1:2.35
​-Rule of Thirds
-High Concept
-Low Concept

Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Describe the themes in film you are most drawn to. Develop a three act plot structure that would bring your favorite themes to life. Complete the task by developing a log-line that encapsulates the plot and theme.
Ratio Rationale: Choose to shoot a 30 second music video in one of three aspect ratios. Edit to best utilize the mise-en-scène. Create a commentary reel where you discuss the process of creating your music video.
Career Catalog: Job description, training, & opportunities for: Music Supervisor & Music Producer
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Widescreen vs. Pan & Scan
Aspect Ratios & How They're Used
Color in Storytelling
Unit 7 Presentation
Music Video Concept Brainstorming
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​​​Unit 6: 
​Post-war Genres

Essential Question:
What distinguishes the style of post-war film genres?

Key Terms:
-Film Noir
-On location shooting
-Neorealism
-Nonprofessional actors
-Real space & real time
-“The Master of Suspense”
-Colorization
-Reverse angle
-Offscreen space
-Cinematic voyeurism

Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Assemble a glossary of lighting terms, highlight your favorite film genres
Genre Crossover: Choose a familiar storybook plot. Then, remodel and retell the story’s plot in one of the three film genres covered, as well as a genre of your choosing. Develop a film that capitalizes on the genres' most distinctive features.
Career Catalog: Job description, training, & opportunities for: Set Designer, Film Producer
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
Film Noir Examples
Neorealism Examples
Hitchcock Examples
Unit 6 Presentation
Genre Crossover Brainstorm
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Examples of Fairy Tales

Unit 5: Breaking Rules & Inventing New Ones

Essential Question:
How do WWII era films change the way we use cinematic language?

Key Terms:
-High contrast lighting
-Deep focus
-Soft focus
-Overlapping dialogue
-Flashback cuts through time 

Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Design a set for a hypothetical TV show. Create a creature make-up design.
​Flash Forward: Tell the story of many years in the span of only a few moments. Use clues within the mise-en-scène to convey the passage of time and the changes of characters.
Career Catalog: Job description, training, & opportunities for: Lighting Designer, Makeup Artist
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
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Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
scene - Kane's boyhood
Three Point Lighting 
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"FLASH FORWARD" SCREENPLAY TEMPLATE

Unit 4: Breaking the Silence

Essential Question:
How did Hollywood change with the addition of sound?

Key Terms:
-Screenplay
-Storyboarding
-Vitaphone
-The Studio System
-The Hollywood Production Code
-Dissolve
-The Technique of Separation

Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: Create a storyboard that matches your recent montage project. Draw each shot to show what is seen within the mise-en-scène. Add the type of shot and/or camera movement as well. 
Project: Sound Story: Create a story in AfterEffects using only sounds to convey a beginning, middle, and end.

Career Catalog: Research job description, training, & opportunities for: Sound Engineer 
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
The Jazz Singer 
(Alan Crosland, 1927) ​​
UNIT 4 Presentation

Unit 3: Mastering the Shot

Essential Questions:
​How did German Expressionism and montage change cinema?

Key Terms:
-German Expressionism
-The 180 Degree Line
-Montage
-Creating Spectator
-Master Shot
-Coverage
-Establishing Shot
-Insert Shot
-Reaction Shot
-Freeze Frame
-Superimpose
-Point-of-View Shot
-Reverse Angle Shot
-Slow Disclosure Shot
-Fast-Motion Shot
-Slow-Motion Shot

Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: 
1. Create a screenplay for a brief TV Show Pilot. 2. Design a costume collection for your TV Show Pilot's cast of characters.
TV Show Pilot: Create a story to film, focusing on a strong master shot and the listed coverage shots. Focus on using montage to allow the spectator to create story connections.
Career Catalog: Job description, training, & opportunities for: Film Editor, Costume Designer
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
UNIT 3 PRESENTATION
MASTERING the Shot - Definitions

Unit 2: Grammar of Film

Essential Question:
Why is cinema both the most realistic and also the most artificial of the arts?

Key Terms:
-Narrative Film
-Wide Shot
-Full Shot
-¾ Shot
-Medium Shot
-Medium Closeup
-Close-up
-Extreme Closeup
-Long Shot 
-Two-Shot
-Over-the-Shoulder
-High-Angle Shot
-Low-Angle Shot
-Oblique Shot
-Handheld
-Tracking Shot
-Pan
-Tilt
-Zoom In
-Zoom Out

Learning Activities:
Creative Journal & Homework: Create a poster advertisement making wise use of the principles and elements of art. Begin with the brainstorming and drafting worksheet. From there, create a fully realized poster no smaller than 8.5"x11".
Commercial: Work in a team to capture of each of the listed shots in to advertise an object of your choosing.
Career Catalog: Cinematographer, Production Designer
Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding.
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Shots & Movements: definitions
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​Unit 1: The Origins of Filmmaking

Essential Question:
How do filmmakers develop and convey stories within the mise-en-scène? 

Key Terms:
-Persistence of vision
-24 frames per second
-Cut
-Shot
-Take
-Set-up
-Mise-en-scène
-Documentary Film

Learning Activities:
Creative Journal: 
1. Notice, Wonder, Discover, Imagine: Create a short story based on an art piece inspiration.
2. Develop a script of dialogue between two characters. 
3. Choose a character to analyze in depth.

One-Shot Story: Create and film a one-shot "story" in which something interesting happens.
Multi-Shot Story: Re-shoot your one-shot story from a number of different perspectives. Then, use this additional footage to cut into your original one-shot story.
Career Catalog: In an ongoing Google Slide Presentation research and note the job description, training, & opportunities for: Film Director, Screen Actor.
​Blog Reflection: Write a response to this unit’s essential question(s). Use moments of success and challenge from the learning activities to exemplify your understanding. ​​
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
(Louis Lumière, 1895) ​
Arrival of Train at La Ciotat 
​(Louis Lumière, 1896) ​​
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Program Director

Chris Hanks
Stage & Screen Pathways​
CTE Department Chair
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River City High School
1 Raider Lane
West Sacramento, CA 95691
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