In this course, students will have the opportunity to explore connections between dance, drama, media arts, music, and/or visual arts. Students will use the creative process individually and/or collaboratively to produce integrated art works that draw on various disciplines, and they will critically analyse art works and determine how interpreting these works affects their own development. Students will develop responsible practices that are transferable beyond the classroom. They will explore solutions to integrated arts challenges and discover that art is everywhere, influencing and reflecting society.
We will be exploring the arts through Cinema and Media Arts. Starting with Steven Spielberg's 1975 classic, Jaws.
Course material will be rated 14A and under. Please keep a close eye on course content and if you have any concerns please let me know. For more information on rating systems in Ontario, please view this link.
FIRST -> Read through and sign the Safety Contract that was shared with you on Google.
ASSESSMENT
During each film study, students are graded on five areas: This Rubric is used to determine the graded level for each of the five areas:
Discussion (Analysis)
Discussion (Impact on Society)
VLog
Video Production (planning, production, post production)
Responsible Practices in the Classroom (digital and physical safety)
RESOURCES
Film analysis is the process in which a film is analyzed in terms of mise-en-scène, cinematography, sound, and editing. One way of analyzing films is by the shot-by-shot analysis, though that is typically used only for small clips or scenes. Film analysis is closely connected to film theory.
Shot by shot analysis[edit]This is a written description of a given sequence in a film in order of the shots. According to Michael Ryan and Melissa Lenos, when doing shot-by-shot analysis, we start with describing the techniques used in the shots or images we are analyzing. After that, we also need to elaborate what effects these techniques can produce when viewing the movie; for example, camera leads what we see in the film so the changes in camera angles have impact on audience's interpretations of the meanings the movie tries to convey. Some of the techniques used in film producing could be composition (foreground/background, frame/raming, etc.), cinematography (close-up, medium shot and long shot, pan shot, tilt shot, etc.), editing (montage, eyeline match, etc.), and so on.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_analysis