Work for Wednesday

Sorry not to see you all this week.

1. Please read your textbook pg 143 - 147 and make notes.
(This is the beginning of the chapter about 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'.)







2. Do your own independent research about the context of Hurricane Katrina and make a PowerPoint
  (4 - 6 slides) Please remember to include a bibliography.

Work for Thursday

Task

Go to the Beasts of the Southern Wild page on my blog:

https://nowonfilm.blogspot.com/p/beasts-of.html

1.   Watch the video on my blog entitled: ‘Inside Beasts of the Southern Wild’ 

(2^ndone down) and answer the following questions:

2.   What production roles does Benh Zeitlin carry out?

3.   What is an important principle of the Bathtub shown in the introductory scene?

4.   Who is Lucy Alibar and what did she contribute to ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’?

5.   Who is Hushpuppy and what is her favourite activity?

6.   Why is it hard to get a lot of people on screen in a low budget film?

a.   How did Benh Zeitlin go about filming this scene?

7.   Conduct your own research to discover the budget of the film.

a.   What is the source of your information? Supply a link and a description.

Extension

8.   What is the main theme (shown in the music) and what is it’s intended meaning?

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Film and TV Apprenticeships

click on the link below to access the website:
https://www.screenskills.com/pitches/film-and-tv-apprenticeships/9bd9afa1-a859-4cb4-a301-e0a7fad0d7e2/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apprenticeships_pilot&utm_content=in-text-link

Celluloid or Digital?

Mock Feedback - Jan 2020

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz98Kzm7JMiCUy1KaWEyYzlNeUotVE15MEdWQWVhdEotblRJ/view?usp=sharing

Lighting - key terms

Task

1. Read the extract on lighting from the Oxford Film Studies dictionary.

2. Highlight the key lighting terms and explain what is meant by each.

3. Complete this work directly on your blog.

Contextual Research for Selma

Research the historical, social and political context of 'Selma' (DuVernay, 2014).

Tasks

1. Research the life of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement in the USA in the early 1960s.
There are resources on my blog: https://nowonfilm.blogspot.com/p/selma.html.
You may also use your own resources
 (Always reference where you obtained your information.)

2. Produce a PowerPoint by next week, Thursday January 23rd ( 4 - 6 slides)

3. Upload to your blog.