Film Studies Daily Log

Thursday, November 6

Mr. Potratz passed out an article with information about the actual people featured in Freaks.

We settled on the scene in which Cleopatra gives Hans his medicine as the scene we would analyze in modelling the students' analysis of a single scene in the outside viewing essay due next Friday (November 14). We watched the scene twice, the second time while students took notes, then discussed techniques of lighting, composition and camera angles & movement which students found significant.

Word of the Day: chiaroscuro