1 Watch the video provided below and answer the questions that follow by adding a new post.
A Brief History of Film
1. What is the “moving image?”
2. Which are the five methods of the Montage Theory?
3. What is the Kuleshov effect?
4. What is “film grammar” and how did it revolutionize the Film industry?
5. What are the “talkies?”
6. What influenced the birth of the Golden Age of Hollywood?
7. What is the influence of “color film?”
8. What was “block booking” and why was it considered inconvenient?
9. What was the “camera stylo” and how did it influence the “Auteur Theory?”
10. What is Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI)?
11. What is the future of the Film industry?
Homework Discussion: Film through the Lens of Ecocriticism
Select a movie that you will watch. While watching, take notes of the strategies that the filmmaker used for the creation of the movie (see the 11 film techniques discussed in class). Explain what is the ecocritical perspective portrayed by the movie. Please elaborate by writing at least two well-developed paragraphs of at least five sentences each.
Suggested movies:
a. The Day after Tomorrow (2004)
b. An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
c. The Perfect Storm (2000)
d. Avatar (2009)