FIL 2000 Film Appreciation - Armstrong
Tallahassee Community College, Fall 2010
*PACING SCHEDULE:  (NOTE: Chapter listings are for class book)

UNIT ONE (weeks 1-4)

Introduction  
 - Film Meaning/Semiology/Codes/Gestalt Theory (Lecture)
Photography (Chapter 1)
 - Lighting
 - Color
 - Screen Composition (Lecture)
 - Lenses and filter
 - Realism/Formalism (foundation)
Other Film Theories (Chapter 11)
 - Realist aesthetics
 - Neorealism
 - Expressionistic aesthetics
 - Auteur theory
 - Structuralism
(discussion of Film Special Effects if time permits)
									UNIT ONE EXAM
UNIT TWO (weeks 5-10)

Depth, Volume, and Space (Lecture)
Shots and Opticals (Chapter 1)
Movement (Chapter 3)
 - Kinesthesia
 - The moving camera
 - Mechanical distortion of movement
Mise-en-Scene (Chapter 2)
 - The frame
 - Composition
 - Territorial space and proxemic patterns
 - Open and closed framing
Editing (Chapter 4)
 - The foundations
 - Soviet montage
 - Andre Bazin and the realist alternatives
 - The New Wave and after
									UNIT TWO EXAM 
UNIT THREE (weeks 11-15)

Sound (Chapter 5)
 - Historical background
 - Sound effects
 - Music
 - Language
Drama (Chapters 6-7)
  - Time, space, and language
  - The director
  - The actor
  - Costumes, makeup, and settings
Literature (Chapter 8)
  - The writer
  - The script
  - Point-of-view and literary adaptations
									UNIT THREE EXAM

*Students will be notified in advance of any schedule changes

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