FILM 101 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM
Editing Week Assignments - Due Date Range: September 20 - September 26, 2009
 Updated 1 August 2009

COLLEGE DEADLINE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25.   File your papers by this date if you wish to take Film 101 for a Pass or No-Pass "grade."  Also, if you want to earn your Associate Degree or Certificate this semester.  File your applications in the Admissions and Records Office by or before this college deadline.

Editing (Lesson Four).   The following assignments will give you a good understanding of the concept of editing in film studies. Many of these activities will also prepare you to pass a quiz and to succeed on the class on other assignments and activities. (Note that Quiz 3 is due next week, and includes learning from this week and next.)  Here are the learning activities for this week:

(1) Read Giannetti Chapter Four, "Editing."
(2) Read Weblecture 4 ("Editing: Manipulation of Time and Space").
(3) Screen one of the films on the "Lesson Four Film List - Editing" below.  Take notes for future reference, whether or not you participate in this week's discussion forum.
(4) Read through any of your classmates' postings and replies that you have not yet read in previous discussion forums.  Participate fully in the Editing Discussion Forum. Read through the conversations of your classmates in this forum, and keep coming back throughout this week and next to read what your classmates have written and discussed.
 

LESSON FOUR FILM LIST (EDITING), with film editors named:

  • Almost Famous (U.S.A., Cameron Crowe, 2000). Joe Hutshing and Saar Klein - Oscar nominee
  • Apocalypse Now (USA, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979).  Walter Murch - Oscar winner
  • Battleship Potemkin (U.S.S.R., Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925). Sergei Eisenstein.  A  must-see for film buffs.
  • Chicago (U.S.A. / Canada, Rob Marshall, 2002). Martin Walsh - Eddie winner 2003
  • Crash (USA, Paul Haggis, 2005).  Hughes Winborne - Eddie and Oscar winner 2006
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (USA, David Fincher) - Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall (nominees for Oscar, Eddie, and BAFTA)
  • The Departed (USA, Martin Scorcese, 2006).  Thelma Schoonmaker - Eddie co-winner 2006
  • Forrest Gump (U.S.A.,  Robert Zemeckis, 1994).   Arthur Schmidt - Oscar winner
  • An Inconvenient Truth (U.S.A., Davis Gouggenheim, 2006).  Jay Cassidy and Dan Swietlik - Eddie winner 2006
  • JFK (U.S.A., Oliver Stone, 1991). Joe Hutshing  and Pietro Scalia - Oscar winners
  • The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (New Zealand / U.S.A., Peter Jackson, 2003). Jamie Selkirk - Eddie winner 2004
  • Man on Wire  (USA / UK, James March) - Jinx Godfrey (won Eddie in documentary editing from ACE)
  • The Matrix (U.S.A., Andy and Larry Wachowski, 1999).  Zach Staenberg (won his first Academy Award for editing this film)
  • Milk (USA, Gus Van Sant) - Elliot Graham (Eddie and Oscar nominee)
  • Network (U.S.A., Sidney Lumet, 1976).  Alan Heim.   A must-see for film buffs.
  • Pulp Fiction (USA, Quentin Tarentino, 1994). Sally Menke
  • Rashomon (Japan, Akira Kurosawa, 1950). Akira Kurosawa.  A must-see for film buffs.
  • Ray (USA, Taylor Hackford, 2004). Paul Hirsch - Oscar nominee and Eddie winner 2005
  • Slumdog Millionaire
    • (UK, Danny Boyle) -Chris Dickens editor (Eddie and Oscar nominee, won BAFTA)

UNIT ONE DISCUSSIONS (total possible=140 points): In addition to posting your introduction (worth 20 points), and reading through the introductions of your classmates, you are expected to read all postings of your classmates in all of the regular discussion forums for Unit One (photography, mise-en-scene, movement, editing, and sound), and to contribute to and participate fully in at least four of these five regular forums in the unit.  Active and substantive participation in regular discussion forums includes (a) an initial posting answering all parts of each assignment (worth up to 20 points) and (b) two or more substantive postings responding to your classmates (worth up to 10 points).  Post your response to the forum assignment by or before Wednesday (by 11:30 p.m.); then send at least two substantive replies to two or more classmates' postings by or before Saturday (by 11:30 p.m.).  Postings submitted after those deadlines will not receive points and will be deleted.  Note 1: Questions on the Unit One Writing Quiz may be drawn from the postings in these Unit One discussion forums.  Note 2: By participating in all 5 of the discussion forums that relate to the five lessons in Unit One, you help ensure you can earn a very high score; if you end up with a performance better than the perfect 140, your X-factor will be enhanced. Scores and comments will be reported at D1 and D2 in Week Seven.

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Gloria Floren, Film in the Letters Department, MiraCosta College
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Created December 2004. Revised 1 August 2009
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