Film Studies Daily Log

Friday, March 25

We reviewed expectations for the Single-scene Analysis essay due next Thursday (March 31), stressing that it is not to contain plot summary, and is not to be a review, but is to explain in the first paragraph how the chosen scene is representative of the film's themes, feel, and/or techniques, and then proceed to do a close analysis of a short scene examining the use of at least two major elements of filmcraft.

We then turned to just such analysis (of film editing) in The Man with a Movie Camera, and we listened to Yuri Tsivian's voiceover commentary on the first few minutes of the film.

HW due Monday:
Read yesterday's handouts if you haven't done so already.
HW due next Thursday:
Outside viwing essay.