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Filmmaking from the First Directors (Digital) - Streaming Videos

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Grade 8-12
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  • Streamed course can be completed on your schedule
  • Students learn to make a film step-by-step
  • Completion of this course is a full-year elective credit
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Filmmaking from the First Directors (Digital) - Streaming Videos

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Filmmaking from the First Directors is a series of video lectures on early film history that teaches students how to make a film step-by-step. Students watch original films and complete assignments that involve making a short film and uploading it for the class to comment on and review. This course counts as a full year of high school credit. The class is taught by Thomas Purifoy, Jr.

The format is an online classroom with pre-recorded lectures that can be watched on your schedule. You will receive an email from info@rainbowresource.com with access details within 1-2 business days. Streaming does not expire. This product is for one family’s use. Groups should purchase a different license from Compass Classroom directly.

The course is for serious students. Expect each lesson to take about 3 weeks to complete. There are no grades, only pass/fail based on completion. Students will need a digital video camera or smartphone, tripod, computer with editing software, and internet connection. ~Sara

Here is what you can expect:

  • Introduction
  • Lesson 1 – Documenting Life: Edison & Lumiere
  • Lesson 2 – A Magical Story: George Melies
  • Lesson 3 – Editing Action: Edwin S. Porter
  • Lesson 4 – Multi-Shot Narrative: D.W. Griffith
  • Lesson 5 – Parallel Editing & More: D.W. Griffith
  • Lesson 6 – Mise-en-scene – Framing, Depth, and Setting: D.W. Griffith
  • Lesson 7 – The First Epics – Introduction of the Feature Film
  • Lesson 8 – Feature Films & Auteur Theory: Maurice Tourneur
  • Lesson 9 – The Character of Comedy: Charlie Chaplin
  • Lesson 10 – Comedy as Complex Sequence: Buster Keaton
  • Lesson 11 – Documenting life: Robert Flaherty
  • Lesson 12 – Realism and the Classical Cinema: Douglas Fairbanks and John Ford
  • Lesson 13 – Formalism and Montage: Sergei Eisenstein

Publisher's Description of Filmmaking from the First Directors (Digital) - Streaming Videos

Filmmaking from the First Directors teaches the basics of filmmaking and early film history. It takes students through a unique journey starting in the late 19th century when film was invented, then guides them through the steps first directors took in creating the modern language of film.

Each lesson includes watching a series of lectures on history and production basics then viewing original films. Assignments will include making a variety of short films which will be uploaded for class comments and review. The goal of the class is to teach students how to make films one step at a time.

This class is taught by Thomas Purifoy, Jr., producer, director and writer of Is Genesis History?, Modern Parables, and Economics for Everybody. He has produced a variety of dramatic and documentary shorts, and is a student of film history. He believes merging these two areas is the perfect way to learn how to make films.

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Product Format:Other
Grades:8-12
Brand:Compass Classroom
EAN/UPC:FILMAKDIG
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