Name: ______________________________________

Date: __________________________________

Film Title: ______________________________________________________________

Director(s): _____________________________________________________________

No. of Viewings: ________

Instructions:

• Copy your document (MSWord or WordPerfect) into the Digital Drop Box on the Film and Media Studies Class on the Blackboard Server:
• Go to http://blackboard.swarthmore.edu/ and log in.
• Click on our class (FMST1 Fall 2004), go to Tools and then to Digital Drop Box.
• Deadline for screen reports: by classtime on Wednesdays

 

1. Immediate Reaction

Check one:

_______very favorable

_______favorable

_______mediocre

_______unfavorable

_______uncertain

 

1a. Emotional Response after first viewing:

 

 

 

 

1b. Purpose/aim/meaning of film as you see it immediately after the viewing

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Analysis of technical/cinematic qualities (2 pages total)

Discuss one or two specific aspects under each heading! Avoid sweeping generalities!

2a. Narration (story, dramatic appeal, motivation, closure, point of view)

2b. Sound (music, dialogue, silence, language, narrator, sound effects)

2c. Photography (focus, frame, angle, locale/organization of space, sets, lighting)

2d. Editing (order, cuts, duration, rhythm, continuity, montage, motifs)

2e. Other (acting, costumes, social, racial and cultural codes, stylistic devices, genre expectations, historical context for years around film, gender assignments etc. )

2f. How does the film "make its case"? (for example: by emotional appeal, alienation effect, manipulation of point-of-view, documentary authority, symbolism, race/gender assignments etc. Give examples!)