FILM 101 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM
Editing Week Assignments - Due Date Range: September 20 - September 26, 2010
Updated 17 August 2010

COLLEGE DEADLINE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24.   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 application 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.  (Note that Quiz 3 is due next week, and includes learning from this week and next; this third quiz will offer you two chances, but the scores will be averaged.)  Here are the learning activities for this week:

(1) Read Giannetti Chapter Four, "Editing."  Also, read through part of Giannetti's Chapter Twelve ("Synthesis") that analyzes editing in Citizen Kane.
(2) Read the Weblecture on Film Editing ("Editing: Manipulation of Time and Space"). 
(3) Screen one of the films on the "Lesson Four Film List - Editing" below.  You are expected to complete the screening before participating in this week's forum.  Take notes on this movie for future reference (e.g., on the Unit One Writing Quiz).
(4) Read through the postings and replies that you have not yet read in previous discussion forums. 
(5) Participate fully in the Movement and Editing Discussion Forum, sending your assignment in by Thursday evening and your replies by Sunday evening.  Read through your classmates' postings and replies both before and after you post. 

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LESSON FOUR FILM LIST (EDITING), with film editors named (choose one you have not yet used in the class):

• 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, 2008) - 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
• Hurt Locker (USA, Katherine Bigelow, 2009). Bob Murawski and Chris Innis (Oscar, Eddie, BAFTA 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, 2008) - 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, 2008) - 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
• Rear Window (USA, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954).  George Tomasini editor
• Slumdog Millionaire
(UK, Danny Boyle, 2008).  Chris Dickens editor (Eddie and Oscar nominee, won BAFTA)
• Traffic (Germany / USA, Steven Soderbergh, 2001).  Stephen Mirrione editor (Oscar winner, BAFTA and Eddie nominee)

Enjoy these learning activities, Cybermates!  If you need technical assistance about how to use Moodle or the MiraCosta Website, go to the Technical Requirements page or the Student Help Desk.  Remember we want your CyberCinema experience to be both pleasant and productive!  This is an exciting and worthwhile course of study, and I am very happy to be working with you. top

Gloria Floren, Film in the Letters Department, MiraCosta College
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Created December 2004. Revised 17 August  2010.  Contents Copyright 2004-2010   Gloria L. Floren. All rights reserved.
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