Film Studies Daily Log

Monday, September 20

Students turned in their movie reviews and Nick Rodewald demonstrated the procedure for uploading reviews to imdb.com. Students have until Tuesday to upload their reviews.

Students took notes as Mr. P continued with his lecture on the concept of artistic motifs, illustrating musical motifs from Beethoven (motifs without associated meaning) and Wagner and Prokoviev (Leitmotiven carrying associated meanings). We then passed from musical motifs (in Shadow of a Doubt preeminently the Merry Widow Waltz) to visual motifs in Hitchcock's film.

HW due Tuesday:
Copy and paste your review into imdb.com if you have not already done so.