Anyway. It’s your last week to finish up working on your movies and commercials. We need them sent to us by Wednesday at 5pm. We will be watching them in class time on thursday. I will give you a couple options of how to send them to me. Truman texted me (435-590-7708) his commercial and that worked fine. I imagine your movies will be bigger. So you can email those to me- (jaydfontano@gmail.com) if they are bigger than your email program will allow you can use a program like WETRANSFER.com to send large files. You don’t need an account.
Some fun things to remember- Please include Closed Captions in your finished movie files so that Brother Ballard can enjoy the films with us. Also if I can’t figure out the audio, but mostly for hearing impaired folks. Make sure they fit in the time limit. Edit out what doesn’t need to be there. Have fun.
Here’s some fun stuff to learn about this week.
Watch – A Brief History of Film
https://youtu.be/utntGgcsZWI?si=97hZ6nc4OnBYNTHG
Full disclosure – When the narrator is talking about “New Wave French Films” for 2 seconds around minute marker 14:16 – A lady is shown in her underwear. It isn’t horrible but if you’d rather avoid this moment you can skip ahead to 14:19 or close your eyes.
Watch – Steamboat Willie
https://youtu.be/BBgghnQF6E4?si=bAmA-HQqb5532hMf
We didn’t talk too much about animation- but this is one of the early ones. Disney’s first with sound.
Watch – A Voyage to the Moon
https://youtu.be/ZNAHcMMOHE8?si=pJLdDnfDCSu-r6JL
This is not the original music that accompanied this film. It would have been played in a theater live while the film was being projected. It likely wasn’t always the same. These early movies are kind of hard to watch now. But try to enjoy it. Think about how far film has come. What special effects did they use? What would these people think of today’s movie experience?
If you want to – Watch the movie HUGO from 2011. It is a fictional story about a a boy named Hugo who discovers the very real character of George Melies who made the Voyage to the moon movie above as well as many others. it makes for a fun modern movie about early pioneers in movie making.
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That’s it. Have fun this week. Work together and finish up your stuff. See you thursday.
~jf
