[3.2] Visual Literacy: Starting with the Image

[3.3] Studying Images through Digital Editing

[3.4] Comics and Film Technique

[3.5] Teaching Film Technique

[3.5a] Lighting

[3.5b] Editing

[3.5c] Sound

[3.6] Exploring Film Technique through Video Production

[3.7] Exploring Editing Through Storyboards and Animations

[3.8] Analysis/Evaluation of Film Technique

[3.9] Film History

[3.10] Television History

[3.11] Responding to and Analyzing Films

[3.12] Fostering Classroom Discussions of Film

[3.13] Image-Sound Skim

[3.14] Writing about Films

[3.15] Film Study Resources

[3.16] Film Journals/Magazines

[3.17] References

[3.18] Teaching Activities

[3.14.1] Jim Burke (2002) identifies some of the following types of notes.

[3.14.2]

Journaling resources:

[3.14.3] Screen Scribes (journal writing about films -- includes audience journal responses)
[3.14.4] Different types of journals (SCORE)
[3.14.5] Journals in the classroom (Diane Walker)
[3.14.6] Electronic Journal Keeping for the Technical Writing Classroom (Gian S. Pagnucci, TechJournals)

Playbill writing resources:

[3.14.7] Russell Hunt's paper on students' use of playbill in writing about literature
[3.14.8] examples of prompts and students' playbill writing
[3.14.9] 2003 course syllabus

The following sites on writing about literature can also apply to writing about films:

[3.14.10]
[3.14.11] Writing Reviews of Literature [University of Wisconsin Writing Center]
[3.14.12] Writing about Literature [University of Nevada, Las Vegas Writing Center]
[3.14.13] Writing Literary Analysis Papers [Seamus Cooney, Western Michigan University]
[3.14.14] PBS Program: Opera of Romeo and Juliet [writing “Dear Abby” letters from characters]