How Films Communicate

University of Phoenix Material Melissa Keck

How Films Communicate

Instructions

Complete and submit Part I in your first week of class. In Week Two, complete Parts II & III after viewing a film of your choice from the University of Phoenix Material: How Films Communicate Film List located under your Week One materials. Submit your completed worksheet in Week Two.

Part I: Beginning to Analyze Film

To compete Part I, choose a movie you have viewed in the past (this does not have to be from the University of Phoenix: How Films Communicate Film List ). Review the following example in the table and then complete your information by inserting the title of your movie and completing the entries for time and place, costume, and set design, writing in complete sentences. For your final entry, describe the atmosphere created by the combination of film elements discussed in Ch. 1 of Film and how they contributed to your liking or disliking of the movie. Submit Part I in Week One.

|Movie |Time and Place |

|Identify aspects of |It definitely added value to the experience watching the movie. The skillful way of the camera positioning throughout the movie made the viewer seem like |

|cinematography in your |there are there with the characters. The variety of angles shows the different viewpoints of characters. In the beginning scene on Normandy Beach, at first |

|selected film. Discuss them in|it just looks like one small crew being attacked, but then the camera took a high shot and showed the whole beach covered with fallen men. It really adds to|

|terms of how they affected |the reality of the tragedy in giving the visual of casualties from the battle. |

|your viewing experience;...