Selma - Film Criticism by Crash Course

Watch the above video:

Make notes of the main points. (You may need to watch it more than once.)

Then answer the following questions:

1. Is the film 'Selma'  completely historically accurate?

     a). Identify two scenes in the film are not strictly historically accurate and explain why.

     b). What are director, Ava DuVernay's reasons for presenting the material in this way?

     c). Do you consider this dramatic licence was justified? Explain the reasons for your answer.

2. What are the main themes of the film? 

     a). Explain how these are established in the opening scenes.

3. Name the bridge that the marchers tried to cross.

     a). In the film, how many times did the marchers try and cross the bridge.

     b). Give details of what happened at each attempt.

4. Explain the importance of television and newspaper journalism to events at Selma.

Work for Wednesday 24th January, 2018

Today, working in your small groups you must:

1.  Ensure that your group presentation for Selma is ready for tomorrow. There are resources for context on the 'Selma - resources' page of this blog.

Please see below for further details:
Choose a scene to analyse for:
a). Film Form (micro elements)
b). Context: Social, historical, Political
c). Ideology conveyed.
d).Spectatorship - response and techniques.

If you have completed ALL of the above, you may move on to the second task - please see below:

2. Work on your group script and the production of two different versions. You may practise the one-shot version with a mobile phone.

Spectatorship - Selma

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u5u6IWY1GeDMjziHBaFiE4mjodPhTPdQ/view?usp=sharing

MLK Day 2018

Article in The Independent by Samuel Osborne:
to read the full article, please click on the link below:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/martin-luther-king-jr-day-2018-mlk-who-was-civil-rights-leader-us-national-holiday-donald-trump-race-a8160201.html

Blocking

Script to Video Exercise

Watch the above video

Working in small groups of 3 you will need to produce:

One short script (1 - 2pages) in standard layout.

One hand drawn Storyboard

One blocking diagram indication movements of actors and positions of objects.

Two videos: each video will be a different version of the same script.
                    One video should be shot as one shot (carefully planned and blocked).
                    The other video should be shot in a variety of carefully planned shots.
                    Use: establishing shot, master shot, mid shots, close-ups, big close-ups, reverse shots,                           profile shots, over-the-shoulder shots, etc.