FILM PRESENTATION

Film Studies Genere Presentation

Resources: Short of the Week website; Week Three Electronic Reserve Readings; Ch. 6 of Film; and Microsoft^®PowerPoint^® Tutorial

Watch your selected comedy, horror, or science fiction film; select one genre to work with; select one short film to screen that corresponds to the selected genre.

Create a minimum of a 10-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation discussing your selected genre and how the corresponding short film fits or does not fit the standard model for the genre.

Include the following:

• Discussion of each of your selected genre
• Discussion of the following components in your selected film:
  • Summary of the film’s story
  • Setting
  • Acting
  • Lighting
  • Costumes
  • Makeup
  • Music
  • Sound
• Discussion of the film’s theme(s) and how the components discussed above support the theme(s) you have determined for the film.

Address fictional aspects of film as discussed in Ch. 6 of Film by writing the following for inclusion on one slide:

• Create your own genre movie character and write a goal for your character, a conflict he or she encounters, and how he or she resolves the conflict and achieves the goal.

Include detailed speaker notes.

Reference and incorporate readings from Film: An Introduction into your arguments as well as a minimum of two references from the course’s ERRs.  THIS IS NOT OPTIONAL

Because this is an academic analysis, this presentation will include an introduction, body consisting of the above topic points, and a conclusion.

Include a References Slide(s) with APA formatted reference entries.

Present your Week 3 Genre Presentation.

For Online and Directed Study students, these are Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentations with notes.

Answer preview

Film lighting enhances the outlook of the scenes in the film. It can also tell the story by the establishment of the mood of the scene. Lighting is mostly natural in The Princess Bride. The scenes take place in open countryside. The lights simulate the torches of the castle and the lights in the room of the grandson. When Inigo inquires his father to direct his sword, his face close up and the sword are shot below with streaming backlighting. It enhances the spiritual feeling of his deceased father. It will help avenge his death. Lighting is dark in the fire swamp coming form behind to show the scary fire swamp that should be avoided. In the scene Fezzik claims, to be Dread Roberts, the lighting is from below in order to simulate the flames engulfing his body. It represents the unsettling effect on the gate guards.  Costumes in The Princess Bride were designed by Phyllis Dalton (Henry, & Rossen-Knill, 1998).