Teachingmedialiteracy.com: A Web-Linked Guide to Resources and Activities

Chapter 3: Film Techniques

[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

Chapter 3

[2.5b] Editing

[3.5b.1] In his famous sequence of shots of civilians being shot by soldiers on the Odessa Steps in the 1925 film, Potemkin (Like television), he combined shots of the soldiers as they marched down the steps shooting the innocent civilians with shots of the civilians being wounded and a baby carriage with a baby in it moving precariously down the steps.

More examples:

[3.5b.2] link 1

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[3.5b.4] link 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

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