TAKE-HOME PROJECT
I.
[EARLIEST
FILM SCREENING]
Please offer a historical account of the first film
screening (NOTE: modern cinema, not the pre-cinema inventions such as shadow
play) ever taking place in your home country, or any other nation of your
interest (could be Japan!). You might want to illustrate where/when the
screening took place and who actually contributed to such event(s) and who the
audiences were. Other relevant details could be added. You may also want to
explain briefly what made the screenings possible (technologically; infrastructurally;
socioculturally; or even politically). For the writing style you could refer to
KT & DB’s, or other film history books. You should offer at least 2 sources
of academic references at the end of the entry (could be from monographs;
anthologies; academic journal etc.; but please no WIKIPEDIA); images or clips
are welcomed but not a must. You could submit this as WORD document. No word
limit.
II.
[ANALYSIS OF
EDITING]
Make a compilation
of video clips (keep it shorter than 5 min) or stills from films based on your understanding
of continuity editing, as well as the Montage editing. You should find at least
1 example for each of the following group:
1) intercutting;
analytical editing; POV shot; shot/reverse shot;
2) overlapping
editing; elliptical cutting (jump cut); non-diegetic insert. (Montage would use
intercutting as well; if you choose a Montage style intercutting, explain it as
such)
Please indicate which type(s) of
editing you are demonstrating, and which aspects characterize such a style of
editing. Also indicate well the source of films referred to (they could be
classical films, or contemporary ones); please do NOT repeat the same examples
used in the readings (I won’t tell you that YouTube has tons more examples!);
please do not take student works as examples; try to use distributed, more
widely known works. You are welcome to submit it in PPT or other presentation
file formats.
NOTE: Due on Nov
12th, 10am; submit to this mail: maran@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Late submissions, unless otherwise explained, won’t
be accepted.
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