Writing About Film - Mr. Woodard

Good press for the film class!

Spokesman-Review story on Writing About Film

Ebert and Roeper's worst movies of 2007

Syllabus--Spring 2008

Text Box: Having trouble figuring out
which film to rent this weekend?

Check out this page of lists,
Sight And Sound's best films,
The worst films ever
American Film Institute's 100 best American films
British Film Institute's 100 best British films
The Village Voice's 100 greatest list
The 100 greatest foreign films
The Writers' Guild 101 best screenplays

Storyboard files

Songbook assignment files

Review of a review assignment

Career presentation

Final Project Files

How to write about films
Ten Things Your Movie Critic Won't Tell You

Recent articles of interest:

A New York Times article about a fight over who is the true mastermind of a film, the screenwriter or the director

A great recent New Yorker article about new films using fractured time in their narratives (such as "Babel" and "Eternal Sunshine")

Plagiarism/Academic honesty policy: Students caught violating the policy will be punished to the fullest extent

Quality film magazines The grammar of film	Genres Analyzing documentaries
Essays on film	The world of film sound
Sites about editing	How films are made
Glossaries of film terms	Screenwriting
How to understand the composition of the frame	Odds and Ends
Lists of film clichés--very funny	Acting

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