Film Studies Daily Log

Friday, March 20

We discussed the excerpt from the Eisenstein essay about Charles Dickens and D.W. Griffith, and students examined a printout from Cinemetrics.com with statistics on the number and duration of shots in different sections of the film (handout). (Students received two other handouts on montage as well, but we did not get as far as discussing them.)

Near the end of the period we began to list some similarities and differences between Birth of a Nation and Battleship Potemkin.

HW due in one week (Friday, March 27):
Final draft of the Single Scene Analysis essay (see Documents page).