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FILM 1: HOMEWORK

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
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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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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 in your journal
Lighting Design Review
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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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HW10: 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: 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
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HW7: Film Review with a focus on Costumes

Watch a film or show of your choosing.

Requirements:
  1. Copy & complete the film review questionnaire in your journal
  2. For the second page (week's specific question), answer the following:
    1. NOTICE the costumes - making a list of the top 5 things that stand out to you  
    2. WONDER about the aim of the designs - what two in depth questions would you ask of the designer if you had the chance? 
    3. INTERPRET how you feel the costumes add to the overall design concept of the film/show
Film Review
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Info on Costumes in Film

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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HW5: 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)

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 Friday
  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
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My App Logo - Final
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Student examples of personalized logos.
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Program Director

Chris Hanks
Stage & Screen Pathways​
CTE Department Chair
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Contact

[email protected]
(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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