Intro to Film & Video Honors – Pacing Guide 1st Quarter TN Standards Lesson Focus Resources Additional Notes Weeks 1-4 HS.1 Produce 3.A Unit #1 – LookinG at Movies / Film Form / Films: The Sixth Sense, Little Projects: DesiGn the presentation and Genres Shop of Horrors -AFI Research Poster distribution of collections of media Presentation artworks, considerinG combinations LookinG at movies Clips: -Camera Shots exercises of artworks, formats, and contexts. -What is a movie? Film Noir: Double Indemnity, The -Seven shot story film -The movie director Postman Always Rings Twice, HS.1 Respond 1.A -Formal analysis Maltese Falcon Demos: Analyze the qualities of and Film Form Musicals: Wizard of Oz, -Camera basic functions demo relationships between the -Form and content Dreamgirls, Little Mermaid -Final Cut Pro editinG basic components, style, and preferences -Illusion of movement Western: Shane, Rosewood, functions demo communicated by media artworks -Manipulation of time and space Stagecoach and artists. -Realism and formalism Horror: Halloween, The Test: Unit #1 – LAM/Film Genres Conjuring, Us (first 5 min) Form/Genres -Narrative vs. documentary movies Gangster: Scarface (1931), The -Genre conventions Godfather, Boyz N the Hood -Six major American Genres: GanGster, Film Science Fiction: 2001: A Space Noir, Science Fiction, Horror, Western, Odyssey, The Matrix, Interstellar Musical Weeks 5-7 HS.1 Produce 3.B Unit #2 – Film History Films: Singin’ in the Rain, Hugo, Projects: Evaluate and implement The Kid -Pop On/Off Effect & Stop improvements in presentinG media -4 Approaches to StudyinG Film: Aesthetic, Motion exercises artworks, considerinG personal and TechnoloGical, Economic, Social History Clips/Shorts: Fred Ott’s Sneeze, local impacts. - MuybridGe Series PhotoGraphy Lumiere Films, Melies Films, The Paper #1: Genre (choice) -First Filmmakers: Edison, Lumiere Brothers, Great Train Robbery, Birth of a HS.1 Connect 1.B Melies, Porter Nation, The Battleship Test: Unit #2 – Film History Explain and demonstrate the use of -Classical Hollywood Style, D.W. Griffith Potempkin, Cabinet of Dr. media artworks to expand meaninG -German expressionism Caligari, Nosferatu, The Jazz and knowledGe, and create cultural -Soviet montaGe movement Singer, Modern Times, Gone experiences in emerGing presentation -Hollywood Golden aGe with the Wind, Citizen Kane, spaces. -Silent comedians: Chaplin/Keaton/Lloyd Stormy Weather, Nanook of the -Birth of sound / Depression era North, Duck Soup, Night at the -Invention of color Opera, City Lights -Studio system -Citizen Kane, End of Golden aGe 8/12/20 – P. Ashbee 1 Weeks 8-9 HS.1 Create 1.A Silent Film Project Projects: Use identified methods to develop Students will work in small Groups to -Silent Film final cut artistic Goals, formulate multiple conceive of an idea, storyboard, plan, shoot, ideas, and problem solve in media and edit a silent film (2 minutes in lenGth.) Paper #2: Director spotliGht + 1 arts. Film techniques and concepts learned in film (choice) class must be utilized in this project. End of 1st Quarter 2nd Quarter TN Standards Lesson Focus Resources Additional Notes Weeks 1-4 HS.1 Respond 1.B Unit #3 – CinematoGraphy Films: Sunset Blvd, The Truman Projects: Analyze how a variety of media -The director of photoGraphy Show, Some Like It Hot, -3-point lightinG exercise artworks manaGe audience -Production terms and tasks Moonrise Kingdom -Sound film pre-production experience and create intention -Cinematic properties of the shot -Sound film shootinG throuGh multimodal perception. -LiGhtinG sources Clips: Touch of Evil (opening -Lenses scene), North by Northwest Demos: HS.1 Create 1.A -FraminG of the shot (airplane clip), Little Foxes -LiGhtinG demo Use identified methods to develop -Proximity to the camera (7 basic shots) (poison scene), Film Noir -Camera advanced functions artistic Goals, formulate multiple -Depth documentary, Visions of Light demo ideas, and problem solve in media -Camera anGle and heiGht Documentary, O Brother Where arts. -Camera movement Art Thou Paper #3: Sequence breakdown -Speed and lenGth of shots of shots (choice) -Special effects -Composition Test: Unit #3 - CinematoGraphy -Rule of thirds Weeks 5-7 HS.1 Produce 2.C Unit #4 – EditinG Film: Inception, Life of Pi, The Projects: Demonstrate adaptation and -The film editor Bourne Identity, Raiders of the -Kuleshov effect exercise innovation throuGh the combination -Functions of editinG: Lost Ark -Sound film shootinG of tools, techniques, and content in -FraGmentation -Sound film editinG standard and innovative ways to -Juxtaposition and meaninG Clips: Scott Pilgrim vs. the -Sound film rouGh cut communicate intent. -Spatial/temporal relationships between World, Vertigo, Rear Window, shots Hero, Battleship Potempkin Demos: HS.1 Connect 2.A -Duration, pace, and rhythm (Odessa steps sequence), The -Final Cut advanced functions Demonstrate and show how media -Continuity editinG and techniques Manchurian Candidate artworks and ideas relate to various -Master scene technique/180 deGree rule Paper #4: Sequence breakdown contexts, purposes, and values. -Shot transitions of editinG (choice) Test: Unit #4 - EditinG 8/12/20 – P. Ashbee 2 Week 8 HS.1 Produce 2.B Sound Film Project Projects: Develop and refine a determined Students will work in small Groups to -Sound film final cut ranGe of creative and adaptive conceive of an idea, write, storyboard, plan, innovation abilities in addressinG shoot, and edit a sound film (2 minutes in identified challenGes and constraints lenGth.) Intermediate techniques in liGhtinG, within and throuGh media arts shots & framinG, and editinG must be utilized productions. for this film. Semester Review & Exam -Exam compiled from lectures, notes, EdPuzzle homework, and film viewinGs) End of 2nd Quarter End of 1st Semester 3rd Quarter TN Standards Resources Lesson Focus Additional Notes Weeks 1-5 HS.1 Connect 1.A Unit #5 – Mis-en-Scene Films: Black Panther, The Hunger Projects: Access, evaluate, and inteGrate -DesiGn Games, The Princess Bride -Production desiGn schematic personal and external resources, such -The production desiGner, exercise as experiences, interests, and cultural -Elements of desiGn (settinG, décor, and Clips: Gone with the Wind, The -Hunger Games Costume Project experiences, to inform the creation of properties) Great Gatsby (2013), Planet of oriGinal media artworks. -Costume desiGn and construction the Apes (1968) & (2001), Rise of Demo: -Make-up and hairstyling the Planet of the Apes, Edward -Color blendinG HS.1 Produce 2.A -Visual effects Scissorhands, Titanic Demonstrate proGression in desiGn, -LiGhtinG (quality, ratios, and direction) Paper #5: Use of color desiGn artistic, technical, and soft skills, as a (choice) result of selectinG and fulfillinG specified roles in the production of a Test: Unit #5 – Mis-en-Scene variety of media artworks. Weeks 6-8 HS.1 Respond 2.A Unit #6 – Narrative Films: Psycho, Jaws, Hidden Projects: Analyze the intent, meaninGs, and -Narration/narrator Figures -WritinG pitch exercise reception of media artworks, focusinG -Characters -5 minute screenplay on personal and cultural contexts. -Narrative structure Clips: Star Wars, Up -The screenwriter Demo: HS.1 Create 3.A -Elements of narrative (story & plot, order, -Conflict in writinG demo Demonstrate deliberate choices in events, duration, suspense vs. surprise, orGanizinG and inteGratinG stylistic repetition, settinG, scope) Paper #6: Character study conventions and aesthetics to convey (choice) meaninG in creation and production processes. Test: Unit #6 – Narrative 8/12/20 – P. Ashbee 3 Weeks 9-10 HS.1 Create 2.A 3rd Film Project (Pre-Production) Projects: Apply aesthetic criteria in developinG, -Students will work in small groups to -3rd Film Pre-Production Book proposing, and refininG artistic ideas, finalize a screenplay idea and create a pre- plans, and prototypes for media arts production book. This will include an productions, considering oriGinal inspiration and design layout, storyboard, inspirations, Goals, and presentation shootinG schedule, mission statement, and context. producer’s report in preparation for the shootinG and editinG of the 3rd film (5 HS.1 Produce 1.A minutes in lenGth.) InteGrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considerinG the reaction and interaction of the audience. End of 3rd Quarter 4th Quarter TN Standards Resources Lesson Focus Additional Notes Weeks 1 HS.1 Create 3.A 3rd Film Project (Production) Demonstrate deliberate choices in -Students will continue their work from pre- orGanizinG and inteGratinG stylistic production into the shooting phase of the conventions and aesthetics to convey filmmakinG process. Advanced techniques in meaninG in creation and production film liGhtinG and shots & framinG must be processes. utilized in this project. Weeks 2-3 HS.1 Respond 3.A Unit #7 – Sound Films: Wall-E, Jurassic Park, The Projects: Evaluate media art works and -Sound production (desiGn, editinG, Artist -Sound dream Foley desiGn production processes at decisive recordinG, and mixinG) -3rd film additional production staGes, usinG identified criteria and -Pitch, quality, loudness Clips: Dunkirk, Chariots of Fire considerinG context and -DieGetic vs. nondieGetic Demos: -On vs. offscreen / Internal vs. external -GaraGeBand demo HS.1 Create 3.B -Types of film sound (vocal, environmental, -RecordinG techniques demo Refine and modify media artworks, music, silence) honing aesthetic quality and -Functions of film sound (audience