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 * Pre-Challenge: Choose a scene from your favorite film and explain what appeals to you.**
 * Pre-Challenge: What is effective about the lighting in Blade Runner?**
 * Challenge 1: Storyboard a Scene from Chungking Express.**
 * Challenge 2: Watch //Pan's Labyrinth .// Choose 5 camera angle/direction/framing/lens choices and 5 lighting choices. Create a powerpoint presentation that explains how those choices affect the mood and tone of the film.**


 * Challenge 3: HORROR TOYS: Make a film about a toy, using //film conventions// to turn it into a horror film.** The story //may// be important, but you need to convey //**tone and**// **//meaning//** through your choice of:
 * lighting
 * color
 * diffusion
 * intensity
 * camera
 * angle
 * distance
 * lens - //assigned - research & add to our online textbook on the google drive.//
 * movement -//assigned - research & add to our online textbook on the google drive.//
 * sound & editing - //at this point you will not be assessed on these elements, but should experiment with some ideas of your own.//


 * Challenge 4: Choose a film from my library (or check one with me) and create an analysis about how the director utilizes the following techniques to create meaning to** **the theme and tone of the film.**
 * **Cinematography - camera placement & camera movement.**
 * **Lighting - color, contrast, temperature, intensity, shadows.**


 * You may communicate these ideas through a short essay (300-500 words), a short film (2-4 minutes) or a keynote presentation (10-15 slides).**

Concept for **MUSIC VIDEO due.**
 * QUIZ - anything in our [|FILM GRAMMAR 'TEXTBOOK'] so far!**


 * Challenge 5: Watch The Cutting Edge and make notes on this [|TITAN PAD PAGE] about *good advice*, *techniques* or *key vocabulary*. Everyone must contribute, and you may even add to the discussion. Be sure to list your names. There is plenty to talk about! Everyone should contribute 3-5 comments.**

In class we watched "recut trailers" - // The Shining // as an uplifting family drama, and // Toy Story // as a horror film, for example.
 * Challenge 6:** **Current: Lola vs. Sammy Jenkins: FIGHT!**
 * Challenge 7: Recut Trailers:**


 * Your ** challenge is to take the film that you watched for your film analysis this week, and recut your own trailer in // the wrong genre. // Happy films could become tragedies. Horror films could be lighthearted comedies. // Transformers 2 // could be... a movie that makes sense. // Twilight // could be... something watchable.

Here are the parameters for your project:


 * It cannot be shorter than 30 Seconds.
 * It cannot be longer than 45 Seconds.


 * Pro tips: **
 * Try //**juxtaposing**// shots that don't belong together. For example, a reaction shot used for a happy scene is placed in response to something the character shouldn't be happy about.
 * Choose music early, find a song that you would //never// use in the original film, and use that to edit your work to.

Create an analysis on how the following factors reveal ** theme ** and ** tone ** in the film.
 * Challenge 8:**
 * First Film** **Analysis:** For the film that you recut a trailer for (or you can choose a new film if you prefer):
 * Lighting
 * Cinematography
 * Editing
 * You may also speak to the direction, but as we have not covered this in any direct way in class yet, it is not yet assessed.
 * You must **attempt** to explain how sound creates meaning, but will not be graded on accuracy for this.

You may do this in any form that you choose, but you will be assessed on how well you address the first three topics. For example, you might: write an essay, draw a storyboard or comic, do a podcast, video cast, prezi, keynote... etc. Surprise us!

Welcome to the **Scott Pilgrim Versus IB Film Year I** challenge. This assignment is broken into three parts - make sure you address each one! You will be assessed on your ability to **analyze** and **interpret** what you have seen in the film.
 * Challenge 9: Due Wednesday 12/3**
 * [|Titan Pad Link]**

**Part I: What themes does Scott Pilgrim v. The World deal with?** You may either describe one of the themes, or if you can't think of any others after the first few are exhuasted, add your own explanation as to why you think these themes are accurate.

**Part II: Diegetic / Non Diegetic** It would be absolutely //ridiculous// for me to ask you to decide one way or the other which elements of Scott Pilgrim are objectively diegetic or non-diegetic. It doesn't even matter because the fact is that it the film plays wiht diegesis in fun an interesting ways. So of course, I am actually going to make you do this - because while it is indeed a futile and nonsensicle gesture- you cannot attempt this without having a firm grasp on what diegesis is. In this section you must:

1. Choose an element of the film and make a case for it being diegetic or non-diegetic. You may **not** choose anything that is unquestionably diegetic or non-diegetic. For example, Scott is diegetic. Everything he says in the film is diegetic. His clothes are diegetic, and even his thoughts are diegetic. The end credits are non-diegetic. You must choose something that is debatelable in its diegesis.

2. Confirm or argue a point that someone else has made. If all the 'good examples' are taken, you can do this twice instead.

Each of your responses should be a minimum of 100 words.

**Part III: Choose your Five Minute Sequence** This does not have to be within one scene, but it **must** be a contiguious five minutes. List your name, give the sequence a title, and list the timecodes. You may have sequences that overlap, but only by 1 Minute with someone else! This will be part of your final exam.

In this sequence, **identify** all of the following elements that represent director's choices in the film, and discuss how those things create **meaning** towards the **theme** and the **tone** of the film.
 * Part IV: Analyze your Five Minute Sequence (MID TERM EXAM) :) (DUE BY DEC 9)**
 * Lighting
 * Sound
 * Editing
 * Mise-en-scene
 * Cinematography
 * You may present this information in any way that you choose (podcast, presentation, essay, documentary, performance art, interpretive dance... etc) .**

[|Google Drive Link!] Add your email [|HERE]. Put each email on a new line.

1.Watch **//Synecdoche, New York//**. If you’ve seen it, you may choose another movie by Charlie Kaufman or Spike Jonze that you have not seen.
 * Challenge 10: Synecdoche, New York**


 * Create a definition of postmodernism in your own words, citing three different legitimate sources (not wikipedia).
 * Choose a scene in the film that you think best exemplifies the idea of ‘the postmodern condition’ and explain why.
 * Choose a scene from another film that exemplifies the postmodern condition, and explain why.

You may present this information in whatever manner you'd prefer. Aim for around 500 words, more or less and use visuals to illustrate your points.

1. Watch //**Devils on the Doorstep.**// It will not be the movie you expect.
 * Challenge 11: Devils on the Doorstep of Synecdoche New York, or a Postmodern Juxtaposition (due Tuesday 1/20)**
 * Looking at your definitions of postmodernism (and what we discussed in class), explain why //Devils// is (or is //not// - if you want to challenge the assignment) a postmodern film.
 * List five **key** ways that Charlie Kaufman and Jiang Wen create a postmodern condition for their film using //film language// (i.e. editing, lighting, cinematography, etc).

You may present this information in whatever manner you'd prefer. Use visuals to illustrate your points.

Imagine 3 iterations of your story, transposed through a postmodern lens. Each story should have a different approach, although you may decide there is one area of postmodernism that you focus on - or try to include more than one in a single idea. The goal here isn't to show off your knowledge of postmodernism, but to imagine a way that it could add depth (or even ambiguity) to your original simple story.
 * Challenge 12: 3 POSTMODERN IDEAS (due Thursday 1/22)**

Here were your collective key points about postmodern film: Characteristics of Postmodern Film


 * Simulacrum
 * Questioning:
 * Epistemic Certainty
 * Objective Truth
 * Conventions
 * Disrupting Narrative Structure
 * Self-Referentiality
 * Pastiche
 * Intertextuality


 * Have you watched //El Mariachi// yet? No? Watch it! We will be discussing it in class next week!**


 * Challenge 14: POSTMODERN SHORT - Rough Cut Due: 2/26. Final Cut due: 3/2.**

Based on two pages of a script from a film (that we have not watched), work with your team to decide how you would go about filming it. You must consider:
 * Challenge 13: BUT I HAVEN'T SCENE IT! (get it?) (in class work)**
 * Camera placement
 * Camera movement
 * Blocking
 * Performance / Expression
 * Any aspect of miss-en-scene that is necessary to the scene
 * Recorded dialogue

You may consider (time allowing):
 * lighting
 * other aspects of mise-en-scene that add depth & meaning to your scene.


 * Titan Pad Link for Script Suggestions:**

https://titanpad.com/qJqf80O4Sh

15 A: ANALYZE THIS! 15B: **ANALYZE THOSE!** Watch the second film by your director, and follow the instructions on this worksheet. pages 09 version: p.s. - read the directions- you can either fill in the blanks or present the information in your own creative way. Your choice. **Due Friday, March 20**.
 * THE AUTEUR'S PROJECT**

15 C: **MAP THIS! Due Tuesday, April 7th. - also (optional) - watch Star Wars: A New Hope (1977).**

Watch //**Jaws**// and finish scripts/storyboards by Tuesday, April 28.


 * 15 D: Documentary Script: Due Wednesday, April 23.**


 * CHALLENGE 16: NARRATIVE WITH SOUND**
 * Final Script:** This is the script that you will submit for possible filming. Only 4 will be chosen. It can be a revision or improvement on what you've already written, or it can be entirely new.


 * Please make sure that it is in proper script format (Celtx is on the server if you haven't downloaded it yet).
 * You must keep your script to about 3 Pages (more than 2, less than 4).
 * You must use an 'editing trick' to inspire part of your film. See the [|OFFF Title Sequence] for inspiration.
 * You must have an obvious postmodern twist to your story.
 * The story must take place in one location.
 * Characters must each have their own unique voices, and never directly state their wants or needs.

Please refer to the New Film Rubric (available on the Google Doc) - for the standards associated with **Screenwriting**.


 * Write your script Due Thursday April 9**

Today (Monday, May 11): Oh my gosh, I miss you guys already! I can't believe its already been like 5-6 minutes since I've seen you. Mrs. Sajan will show you a series of videos today - Ya Chun's documentary on **Myra Derren** followed by her **memory project** and her **memory project with commentary. This will be due the last week of school.** Take a look at the **MEMORY PROJECT ASSIGNMENT** - and as a class, discuss how she did based on the rubrics for the project and the project commentary.


 * 15 E: Documentary Video: Due on Friday, May 15.** //This will be handed in on Tuesday, the 19th, but Friday is the due date so that it doesn't overlap with....//


 * 16: Final Narrative Film (ROUGH-ISH CUT):** **Due Tuesday, May 19.** //What??? You are trying to finish your documentary video AND the rough cut at the same time??? Didn't you read earlier that it should have been finished on Friday??? The final cut will be due 5/25- but if it is completed by the 19th we will include it in FILM NIGHT.//