Canadian Film Forum

Grand_Shaman · Administrator Data inscrierii: 26/Oct/2007 Mesaje: 112

Here's the exam procedure:

1. ESSAY to be written at home
A 2-page essay on a documentary film of your choice from the [url=http://www.nfb.ca/explore-newly-added-films?filter_choices=30]National Film Board website[/url] (click). This will analyse the film in terms of:
- release data, author's filmography
- theme and subject
- relevance for Canadian Studies
- film grammar in:
A. the whole film (dominant techniques used)
B. in one 1-minute sequence of your choice
(with more detail about shots, composition, focal length lens, camera movement, colour, editing, rhythm, sound)
- relevance of these techniques to the film's message and to its aesthetic quality

I would prefer these essays to be posted online on this forum.
If you cannot do this you may email these to me.

2. In class: WRITTEN
This will be a generalist discussion, aimed at your perception of Canadian Film, and not a technical talk.
Expect a couple of questions about things like:
- The relevance of the Canadian Films you have watched for your knowledge of Canada
- Canadian Films and Canadian Studies
- place of Canadian filmmakers in world filmmaking
- can Canadian filmakers compete with Hollywood? If so, how?
- priorities of Canadian film
- aesthetic achievement in Canadian film

Grand_Shaman · Administrator Data inscrierii: 26/Oct/2007 Mesaje: 112

You may post your film analyses on the Film Grammar board on this website.