There are two parts to your first blog post:
Part 1
- Pretend you are a person living in the late 1800s to early 1900s and
write an article or letter in their voice about one of the films we
have screened from our Birth of Cinema Unit. Try to imagine what
someone seeing it for the first time (and at that time) would notice or
want to say about it. Don't worry so much about using language that
sounds like it's from the time period (though you certainly could do
some research by reading some things written in that time). The list
of films is below. Keep in mind that the music we heard during our
screening was not necessarily what someone at the time would have heard
(though there would have been some kind of music played along with many
of those films).
Part 2 - Now from your own 21st
century mind write briefly about why you wrote what you wrote - why do
think someone from that time period would have that type of reaction or
experience? Why did you choose that film to write about?
Your
post is due by Tues, Sept 30. You need to make sure that you
have emailed me the link to your blog BEFORE THEN. I will put the DVDs in
the library so if you'd like to give it another watch you can do so (you
cannot check them out, you have to sign them out to watch in the
library). You might be able to find some of them posted on-line, too. You could also respond to one of the shorts on the collections that WE DID NOT watch in class (if you watch it on your own).
Edison's Shorts
Lumiere's Actualities
Pathe Films (instructional - Russia, Dogs)
Mutoscope "Blue" Films
Melies:
A Trip to the Moon, The Infernal Boiling Pot, Four Troublesome Heads
RW Paul/Walter R Booth : Extraordinary Cab Accident, The (?) Motorist
GA Smith: Grandma's Reading Glass, As Seen Through a Telescope
Edwin S. Porter: The Great Train Robbery, Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend
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