Semester 1 Overview
What was your holiday homework?
a) Summarise the film
b) Analyse screenshots of the film
c) Complete the Edrolo activities
b) Analyse screenshots of the film
Who directed the film?
Billy Wilder
Sound that originates from a source within the film’s world.
Diegetic sound
Who was idolised during the Golden Age of Hollywood?
Actors / Film stars
"Madame has moments of _____."
a) sadness
b) depression
c) melancholy
d) panic
c) melancholy
Which outcome is NOT a part of Semester 1?
a) Reading & Responding to texts
b) Creating Texts
c) Analysing Argument
c) Analysing Argument
What is the full name of our protagonist / anti-hero? (Yes, spelling matters)
Joe Gillis
A narrator whose credibility is compromised, leading the audience to question the truth of the narrative.
Unreliable narrator
The colloquial name for movies with spoken dialogue instead of subtitles.
"The Talkies"
"I felt caught like the _____ in that contraption on her finger."
a) spider
b) cigarette
c) nails
d) handbag
cigarette
When is our compulsory excursion to ACMI to view the film and listen to a lecture?
Tuesday 3rd February
In which year was this film released?
1950
The use of minimal, directional light to create a deep shadows and selective illumination
low-key lighting, or chiaroscuro
A set of moral guidelines for American films imposed between 1934 - 1968
The Hays Code (Motion Picture Production Code)
"She was still sleepwalking along the giddy heights of a lost _______________"
a) career
b) youth
c) beauty
d) era
a) career
How many marks are allocated for our first SAC?
40
What film genre is Sunset Boulevard?
Film noir
When a character directly addresses the audience.
Breaking the fourth wall.
Drama with high emotion - particularly associated with the silent movie era.
Melodrama
"The whole place seemed to have been stricken with a kind of creeping ______________"
a) gloom
b) melancholy
c) atmosphere
d) paralysis
d) paralysis
In which week will our first SAC take place?
Week 7
Identify the 5 themes we have started to explore (100 points each):
1. D_______________
2. A_______________
3. P_______________
4. D______________
5. L_______________
1. Deception
2. Ambition
3. Power
4. Decay / Death
5. Loneliness
When the audience knows something a character does not.
Dramatic irony
Why did the Golden Age of Hollywood decline in the 1950s?
* Growing popularity of television
* Collapse of studio system
* Red Scare & the Hollywood Blacklist
* Shifting audience tastes post WWII - audiences wanted more realistic, personal stories instead of perfect Hollywood fantasies.
"Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken ____________ Norma Desmond"
a) its toll on
b) comfort with
c) pity on
d) control of
c) pity on