• LOG CHECK 1 (first days of class, Cinema Paradiso)

    • Top-grossing 2019 films list 
    • Anatomy of a Scene: written summary of one you watched
    • Writing with Specificity ideas (things you could write about-the half sheet) specifics
    • Mini-review 1 (on a 2019 top-grossing film)
    • Mini-review 2 (on a film of your choice)
    • Functions of film (we brainstormed this list)
    • Cinema Paradiso screening notes (functions of film with examples)
    • Cinema Paradiso response-see prompts here if you were absent: log prompts
    • Production notes and storyboarded image

    LOG CHECK 2: Early Cinema and Techniques

    • production notes/log prompt options
    • log response for early cinema clips
    • Hugo production notes
    • Hugo log responses
    • mise en scene image notes (from image selected in class groups)
    • Philadelphia mise en scene observations/significance
    • Sound log prompt (from clips with/without soundtrack)
    • overall technique clip chart notes (North by Northwest, Notorious, Strangers on a Train)
    • overall technique clip responese/analysis

    LOG CHECK 3: Adaptation and Atypical Storytelling

    • Apollo 13 productions notes
    • Apollo 13 screening notes (your adaptation vs. movie and "thrilling/riveting" techniques)
    • Apollo 13 log responses
    • Brainstorm list of atypical story-telling (clip notes and your original examples)
    • List of 3 techniques from 500 Days of Summer and write up of 1—how was atypical technique used? What did it add to the scene?
    • Moonlight Kingdom production notes
    • Moonlight Kingdom screening notes on atypical techniques
    • Moonlight Kingdom log responses

    LOG CHECK 4: Documentary and Animation

    • Rain Man/Autism is a World comparison
    • Modes of Documentary notes
    • note sheet: Super Size Me
    • note sheet: Tupac: Resurrection
    • final film project model (Night of the Hunter)
    • The Cove production notes
    • The Cove viewing notes on ethics/legality
    • The Cove log responses
    • The Greatest Movie Ever Sold log response
    • Overall documentary log response
    • Brainstorm of best animated films
    • Animation log responses

    LOG CHECK 6: Film Noir

    • Definition of film noir
    • Characteristics of film noir
    • Film noir clip chart
    • The Dark Knight production notes
    • The Dark Knight viewing chart (elements of film noir)
    • The Dark Knight Log responses (2)
    • Log responses: why'd you pick the movie you did for the project?  Also, which film from presentations would you like to watch in its entirey?  Why?