TICS5 Critique
THEME - IMAGE - CHARACTER - STORY - SOUND - SETTING - STRUCTURE - STYLE

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THEME - What is the film really about? All the film's ideas are connected via story, characters, setting and images. 
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 IMAGES - The basic building blocks of every story. Each film has a unique way of creating and displaying images to create unique communications
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CHARACTER - Personality, performance and history draw us into a story.
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 STRUCTURE - The order and method in which a story is told. It may help the viewer with understanding or create misunderstanding and confusion.

The American Teenager

Science Fiction

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American Crime Cinema

Sci Fi - Time
Sci Fi - To Be Human/Dreams
Sci Fi - We Are Not Alone

Man  Alone Unit

Dystopian Society - Planet of the Apes

Parkland - Sixties

  • Investigate the 1960s and the JFK era
  • Discuss the Zapruder Film
  • Complete Parkland
  • Parkland Quiz Code is Parland

Scrooge (1951)


Films About the 1940s - Radio Days

  • Complete the OBWAT Quiz
  • Compare Media Effects on Society (Google Classroom)
  • Continue Woody Allen's Radio Days
Radio Days Notes
For Reading - The Golden Days of Radio (Take the test at the end of the reading)

Films About the 1930's - Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

The Silent Film Era

The American Western & the Expanding West


  • Discuss Fable, Folklore, Fairy tale and Myth
  • ​Begin Princess Bride

The Alamo

Background to the Alamo
Read This Article- Mythologizing the Alamo
Complete the Reading Response Form

The New World


Read this Review 
Complete the Reading Response Form
 Terrance Malik's Shooting Style
 ​In Search of Terrance Malik
​Complete the New World Follow Up Qs (On GC)

The Patriot

The Shining

Shining PPT
The Shining Reading Response Article
Response Form on GClass.
Shining Quiz
American Crime Cinema

Read this Article:
Gansters R Us: Why We Love Crime Drama
Complete the Crime Cinema Reading Response Form for for above article

Road to Perdition Quiz​​ - Code = "road"
View documentary on Film Noir
​Gansters R Us: Why We Love Crime Drama
Complete the Crime Cinema Reading Response Form for for above article

The American Musical

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 Explore film comedy elements of Satire, Parody and Farce
Laughing Matters Video
Read: The Difference Between Spoof, 
​                                   Satire and Parody
​Complete this Holy Grail Form

The American Teenager in Film: 1940's - Present


Glory

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For Reading

Dystopian Society

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Man Alone 
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 STORY - Stories connect us to other people, places and events. They provide common experience for
 understanding and exploration.
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SOUND - Music, sound effects or even the absence of sound help color a film with unique or additional meaning.
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SETTING - The place where action happens. The place can be real or recreated on a set or digital special effects.
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 STYLE - All the tricks of the trade are used to create a unique piece of art that may have a distinct look of a particular director, cinematographer or time period.

How to Speak Movie

Part 1  - The Camera
Part 2 - Mis en Scene
Part 3 - Editing

   
CURRENT UNIT -

History of America Through Film
1500s to 1960s
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UNIT  1 - Story Structure in film
UNIT 2 - Apocolypto - 1500s
UNIT 3 - 1600s The New World
UNIT 4 - 1700s Last of the
                           Mohicans
UNIT 5 - The Patriot
UNIT  6 -  The Alamo
UNIT 7  - Glory
UNIT 8 - 3:10 to Yuma
UNIT 9 - !920s-30s Silent Film
               Modern Times / Oh
               Brother Where Art
               Thou?
UNIT 10 - JFK Early Sixties - 
                 Parkland

Genre Studies

UNIT 11 - Dystopian Society
                Planet of the Apes /
                 Book of Eli / Children                                          of Men
UNIT 12 - Man Alone - Castaway
                 / I Am Legend
UNIT 13 - Time - Back to the
                 Future / Source  Code
                 / Arrival
UNIT 14 - Crime - Road to 
                   Perdition / The
                    Kingdom /  Minority 
                                         Report
SCIENCE FICTION - Science Fiction
                                   The Matrix / War of the  Worlds / 
                                 
           

Story Structure in Film

Radio  Days - Woody Allen

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Parkland
Investigate the era of JFK
JFK ppt
The saddest 28 seconds of film - Motherboard
​Reading Response  Form for above article
5 ways JFK's Assassination changed the world
Parkland  Quiz


Silent Film

The Little Tramp
Vaudeville & Burlesque
Early film comedians
​Modern Times
​Modern Times Quiz - Code - moderntimes

Read These Articles:

Indigenous American Natives - 1500's

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9/7 - Film Fanatic Survey 
Motion Picture Film Timeline