1. Read all the posts on the blog, remember, we do not have time to go over everything in class. Consider the blog posts your reading list. This is now A2 work, advanced level and you are expected to complete at least 30 mins work for every lesson you have.
You should read/watch the links and make a few notes on your understanding of them on your blog.
2. Consider Bordwell and Thompsons' comments,
'Our basic assumption is that as an art, film offers experiences that viewers find worthwhile-diverting, provocative, puzzling, or rapturous. But how do films do that?'
You should find films that you find diverting, provocative, puzzling or rapturous. If you can, get a still or clip from You tube of the part of the film that inspires those reactions in you.
Next week you will be expected to present your favourite one and explain how you think it achieves that effect. You may present this as a powerpoint or just play an extract and talk about it if you prefer.
For example, a film that I find diverting is Withnail and I (1987). It is one of my favourite films of all time, it is amusing, thought provoking and has a great soundtrack. I discovered it at a very significant time in my life. This particular scene provides me with a lot of aesthetic & intellectual enjoyment.
It is very well filmed in difficult conditions (pouring rain). It occurs at the end of the film where the protagonist has been acting like a bit of an idiot throughout the whole film, he is a borderline alcoholic trying to become an actor. In this scene he delivers the soliloquy from Hamlet, (which I studied at A level and knew very well) and finally proves, in a very poignant manner, that he really can act. It works on several different levels and is a film and a scene that I can watch repeatedly.
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