Bringing Up Baby

Think about the film's mise-en-scene. Choose one scene in the film and discuss at least two aspects of the mise-en-scene (costumes, set, lighting, props, framing) and its relation to the scene and the film as a whole. 

Choose a cultural context and frame your response through that as a lens. Use at least 2 paragraphs for your discussion. 

And please post your favorite line from the film.

IB Sample Student Assessment Material

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Rififi

Choose a 5 minute scene and analyze it through the lens of a cultural context of your choice.  Be sure to cover 2-3 cinematic elements in your analysis.

Double Indemnity

Choose one scene and describe it briefly for me. Then look at it through a feminist lens. How are women depicted cinematically? Be sure to use solid cinematic evidence from the scene as well as quotes from the Mulvey essay. Also, mention the scene's relationship to the film as a whole and why you chose the scene.

Man With a Movie Camera

Watch the film...

http://www.archive.org/details/ChelovekskinoapparatomManWithAMovieCamera

Your Looking at Movies textbook has a nice quote about Vertov and his film on page 428.

Vertov shows us how to frame reality and movement: through the human eye and the camera eye, or through windows and shutters. But to confound us, he also shows us--through such devices as the freeze-frame, split screen, stop-action, slow motion, and fast motion--how the cinematographer and editor can transform the movements of life into something that is unpredictable. He not only proves that the camera has a life of its own, but also reminds us of the editor, who is putting all of this footage together. Reality may be in the control of the artist, his camera, and its tricks, but it also finds definition within the editor's presentation and, ultimately, the viewer's perception.

In your first well-developed paragraph, please discuss this quote in relation to a five minute piece of Man With a Movie Camera. Be sure to describe shots cinematically, as if I've never seen the film before. Discuss elements of editing, such as the juxtaposition of shots, rhythm, montage, etc.

In your second well-developed paragraph, discuss this quote in relation to a film of your choice. Try to be as specific as possible in your descriptions and speak cinematically when you discuss the film. 

Battleship Potemkin

"The film has a collective hero; the Russian masses—the mutineers on the Potemkin, the people of Odessa, the sailors who mutiny on the other ships—who rebel against Tsarist oppression.

Despite the film's documentary look, it was very carefully constructed on every level, from the distribution of line, mass, and light in individual shots to the perfectly balanced five-act structure of the overall film. The most remarkable feature of the film's construction, however, is the montage editing.

Eisenstein's theory of montage—based on the Marxist dialectic, which involves the collision of thesis and antithesis to produce a synthesis incorporating features of both—deals with the juxtaposition of shots, and attractions (e.g. lighting, camera angle, or subject movement) within shots, to create meaning. Rather than the smooth linkage of shots favored by many of his contemporaries (e.g. V. I. Pudovkin and D. W. Griffith). Eisenstein was interested in the collision and dialectical synthesis of contradictory shots as a way to shock and agitate the audience."

Think about the above quote (from the essay by Clyde Kelly Dunagan in the handout I gave you). In 2 paragraphs, discuss (CINEMATICALLY) if and how Eisenstein's theory works. Be sure to use the cinematic vocabulary you have learned. If you need to, use your glossary in Looking at Movies.

In paragraph 3, discuss a film you have seen that uses discontinuity editing or at the very least seems influenced by Eisenstein's method. Discuss the film CINEMATICALLY as you would discuss a film we watch in class.

Here is a link to the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TgWoSHUn8c

Metropolis

Strike! full movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLiNKaUp0AA

Metropolis full movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvtWDIZtrAE