11/26 In-Class

We watched the first part of the movie Citizen Kane (up to where Kane takes over the newspaper.) We are taking two sets of notes as we are watching: one focuses on treating the movie as a short story, writing down important info about character motivation, decisions, etc. The other focuses on the use of film techniques such as lighting, camera angles, camera shots, editing, music, sound effect, etc. You are making observations about how the use of these techniques enhances the movie. You will have a reflection paper due on the use of techniques on Friday and the character analysis due on Tuesday.