Experiments in Form
In this activity, students will create a short fiction video or screenplay inspired by avant-garde cinema.
FILM LESSON 2: FILM | VIDEO
2 class periods (90-120 min) + written or video assignment
VIDEO:
On Cinema Video and Transcript
HANDOUTS:
Handout 1 (as needed)
Handout 2 (as needed)
Handout 3 (as needed)
Handout 4 (as needed)
WORKSHEET:
TEACHING PLAN:
- Art and Culture
Medium > Visual Arts
Subject Matter > Art History
- History and Social Studies
Themes > Culture
- Literature and Language Arts
Genre > Drama
Place > Modern World
- Analysis
- Creative writing
- Critical thinking
- Cultural analysis
- Discussion
- Expository writing
- Film editing
- Interpretation
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Media analysis
- Report writing
- Representing ideas and information orally, graphically, and in writing
- Role-playing/Performance
- Synthesis
- Technology
- Visual analysis
- Visual art analysis
- Visual art skills
- Visual presentation skills
- ELA Reading: 5-7
- ELA Writing: 2-6, 10
- ELA Speaking & Listening: 1-2, 5
- Allow additional time for peer review, editing, and critique of finished videos or screenplays.
- Assign a response paper to accompany the video or screenplay, asking students to reflect on their formal and aesthetic experimentations, and to evaluate the impact of the finished work.
- Post videos to a class blog, vlog, podcast, or web gallery, or arrange a coordinated school or public screening/reading of the films, highlighting a shared class interest or theme (see our Information for Teachers).