Week Two

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Early Silent Cinema

Introduction

Topics

• Rise of early motion picture studios
• Early types of filmmaking
• Adoption of narrative cinema and its impact on the industry
• D.W. Griffith “The Father of Modern Cinema”
• Early editing techniques
• Fundamentals of the editing process
• Impact of editing on narrative cinema

Outcomes

By end of this week, you should able to

• identify early film studios
• define narrative cinema
• understand the importance of D.W. Griffith’s style of filmmaking
• list and define editing techniques
• understand the basics of the editing in cinema
• describe the importance of editing in a motion picture
• discuss editing and narrative techniques in relation to a given set of films
• discuss the importance of The Birth of a Nation (Griffith, 1915) in film history

Assignments

By end of this week, you will have completed

• Week Two Topic 1 Discussion
  • initial post
  • at least two (2) classmate responses
• Week Two Topic 2 Discussion
  • initial post
  • at least two (2) classmate responses
• Begin working on Film Essay 1. Due at the end of week 4.