Film Studies Daily Log

Monday, September 28

Students received assignment sheets for the first outside viewing paper, which is due October 9, and checked out DVD's and VHS tapes of the films which they will write about. The essay is to be a detailed, in-depth analysis of a single scene in the film, examining such elements as mise en scene, pictorial composition, lighting, camera angles and movement, film editing, and sound.

After that we began to examine the library scene in Shadow of a Doubt as a model of how to analyze a single scene as students will do in their essays.

HW due Friday, October 9:
Outside viewing essay (single scene analysis). There will be at least one intermediate deadline before Oct. 9