Category: Film studies

Film: Point Break (1991/dir. Kathryn Bigelow/2 hrs. 2 min./Tubi) Key terms · Persistence of vision: The tendency for one image to persist or linger on our retina as the next image enters our perception, contributing to the illusion of motion pictures. · Frame: the smallest compositional unit of a reel of film: a single photographic…

Details of Assignments: All assignments are considered short essays of at least 1-2 paragraphs. I need you to spell check and make sure your sentence structure is well constructed. Please DO NOT write in bullet points or cut and paste the questions and answer each one separately. The prompts are there to guide you so…

Assessment 1: Revision Journal (1000 words) due Monday 14th October, by 5pm (10%) The revision journal consists of two entries at 500 words each, answering two questions (listed below). These exercises are designed to help you practice essential skills for Film Studies, which will help you with both your essay and the exam. Both entries…

For this assignment you will be given the first 10 scenes of a published feature screenplay. You will write the slugline, followed by a short synopsis of the scene (one or two sentences MAX), followed by an analysis of the function of the scene. The analysis may be based on the answers to the following…

Watch Hyenas and read “Djibril Diop Mabety” in Ten Directors ( post colonial African cinema ) and write a response about it the instructions are attached below make sure you read the instructions well and follow it thoroughly.

Watch Hyenas and read “Djibril Diop Mabety” in Ten Directors ( post colonial African cinema ) and write a response about it the instructions are attached below make sure you read the instructions well and follow it thoroughly.

Film: Shadow of Doubt (1943) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock, Starring Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten https://archive.org/details/shadowofadoubt1943_202003 Videos that breakdown different kinds of camera shots, movement, sizes, and most common transition devices. While most of this should be familiar from Essential Cinema, these videos include samples from both classic and contemporary films. Watching these videos will allow you…

Watch the film The Big Sleep, choose one scene(less than two mins), and select a theory from the reading. Then, write a one-page analysis. This might involve an application of the theory to the scene, a nuancing of the theory through the scene, or even why the theory is not applicable. Please note the length…

I need you to write me a podcast scriipt on the topic above. I have written a proposal for this podcast but it was not well received by my instructor. I have attached the copy of my proposal and attached copies of the sources I used. So I decided to make the topic more specific…