Monday, September 12, 2005
Assignment 2 Tips from Prof. Baird
Dear Class,
Assignment 3 regarding the editing analysis comparison and contrast of Casablanca and Fight Club is not as hard as it seems. We talked about continuity editing of the classical Hollywood system, which aims to create "invisible editing" and how that contrasts strongly with the in-your-face, selfconscious editing of later films like Fight Club. Just look for 2 or 3 examples from each film to compare. The more interesting and revealing your comparisions the better. No 2 papers will be the same. Perhaps you want to compare a typcial type of scene, say, a fight or action scene and how each film uses a different style of editing. Or, perhaps you choose something very simple like a scene that uses shot-reverse shot during a conversation at lunch. Just some ideas.
good luck
Classical Hollywood Cinema
http://faculty.uwb.edu/mgoldberg/courses/definitions/classicalHollywoodcinema.html
http://faculty.uwb.edu/mgoldberg/courses/definitions/classicalHollywoodcinema.html
Robert Baird, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Instructional Development
Assistant Professor Cinema Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Coordinator of Instructional Development
Assistant Professor Cinema Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CITES EdTech
http://robertbairdphotography.blogspot.com/
// posted by Robert Baird @ 8:07 PM 
