Film Review Twilight

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Film Review


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Agenda

What is a review?

Background knowledge about film making

Different genres of films

Using adjectives to describe films

Activity: Think-Pair-Share

Roundtable: Criteria for a good showSetting/ Characters/ Theme/ Narration

Analysis the film: Twilight

Linguistic features of writing a review


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What is a Review?

A review is a report in the newspaper,

magazine, or on a website, that gives the

writers opinion of a movie or some otheritem of interest


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Film making

Running Time: the amount of time it takes a

viewer to watch the film from beginning to end.

Performers: Stars / supporting characters / extras

Stars: best well-known actors who play the

leading role in the film

Supporting characters: playing supporting roles

in the film

Extra: occupy the smallest amount of screen

time


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Camera Movement

1. Pans

A movement which scans a scene

horizontally, often use to follow a movingobject which is kept in the middle of the

frame.


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2. Tilts

A movement which scans a scene

vertically, otherwise similar to apan.


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3. Dolly Shots

The camera is placed on a moving vehicle andmoves alongside the action, generally following

a moving figure or object.A dolly shot may be a good way of portraying

movement, the journey of a character forinstance, or for moving from a long shot to aclose-up, gradually focusing the audience on a

particular object or character.


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Dolly Shots


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Shot Length

1 . Extreme long shot

It normally shows an EXTERIOR, eg the

outside of a building, or a landscape,and is often used as the opening shotin a news storyand to show scenes ofthrilling action eg in a war film or

disaster movie.


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2. Long ShotThis includes the FULL SHOT showing

the entire human body, with the headnear the top of the frame and the feetnear the bottom.


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3. Medium Shot

Contains a figure from the knees/waist

up and is normally used for dialoguescenes, or to show some detail ofaction. Background detail is minimal.


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4. Close-Up

This shot magnifies the object and

shows the importance of things. Theclose-up takes us into the mind of acharacter. A film-maker may use this tomake us feel extra comfortable or

extremely uncomfortable about acharacter.


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5. Extreme Close-Up

an extreme version of the close up,

generally magnifying beyond what thehuman eye would experience in reality.


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Different genres of the film

Western

Musical

Thriller

Action Comedy

Romance

Action Film

Special Effects film

Horror


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Adjectives

We can use these adjectives to describe films.

Which ones are positive (+) and which ones arenegatives?

Boring Funny Brilliant Romantic

Dull Scary

Entertaining Violent

Horrifying Sentimental Exciting Overly violent


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Think-Pair-Share

1. Which genre you like best? Why?

2. Which is your favorite movie?

3. What made the movie so enjoyable?

Use 3 minutes to think andwrite down the answers in yournote-bookPairs of students read anddiscuss their responses. (3

mins)


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Roundtable

Discuss the criteria of a good show

4 Students per group and divide yourself intodifferent roles: Organizer/ Recorder / Checker /

Presenter

the first student in each group writes one responseon a paper and passes the paper counterclockwise to

the next student.

Do you think Twilight is a good show?


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Analysis the film: Twilight

Genre

Plot Summary

Setting

Characters: Bella Swan, Edward Cullen

Theme

Narration

Colors

Twilight and traditional vampire story

Comment


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Setting

The setting of the story is its background,location in time and space and ultimately, itsatmosphere. It is used to reflect the mood of the

film/ story.1. Where is it set? At home? Outside? Etc.

2. What can you see here?

3. What does it feel like here? Hot/Cold?4. What is the weather like? What so special about

it?

Foggy, rural woodlands of the rainy state of Washington


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Characters

You can comment / describe a character basedon the following items:

1. Straight description (visualise the character)2. Clothes, Manner and habit

3. Dialogues and actions

4. Relationships with other characters

5. The way they do things


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Bella Swan

17-year-old from Phoenix

Very pale (skin color)

Shes going to live with her dad, Charlie, the local chief ofpolice

Came from a devoice family

Very interested in Edward ; first meet him in a Biologylesson love at first sight

Moody but intelligent


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Edward Cullen

Charming, quiet and compassionate


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Theme

The theme of a story is its main idea and

can often be expressed as an abstract noun,

for example, revenge, truth, love, thesource of true happiness and so on

Activity
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Theme of alienation

Both Edward and Bella are outsiders, they are very

different from the others

Bella: just came from Phoenix ; unlike herclassmates, she didnt like going to parties; she

didnt like rainy days

Edward: he is a vampire, very different from the

others; he and his family keep to themselves;

having odd habit of never eating; unlike other

vampires, he drinks animals blood; he chooses a

human (Bella) to be a lover


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Theme of Love

Love is

1. Strong positive emotion of regard and affection

2. Acceptance (both good and bad things)

3. Experience happiness Is the love between Bella and Edward sounds normal? Why/

Why not?

Transcendent Love: About three things I was absolutelypositive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a

part of him, and I didnt know how dominant that part mightbe, that thirst for my blood, And third, I was unconditionallyand irrevocably in love with him


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Narrative Techniques

Technique Function(s)

1st person narrative

3rd person narrative

Beginning at the end

Involves the reader in the narrators

personal story; tell the reader thenarrators personal thoughts

Used to stimulate interest in the

reader

Retells the action from the point of

view of an all-knowing narrator;

thoughts of all characters included


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Colors

Color and lighting design extend the

dramatic and emotional effect of the film

Hard, blue light is used throughout the film

Feelings: violent of the vampire/ ghostly

effect/ gloomy feeling/ subtlety/ darkness

inside us


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Facts and Fiction about

Vampires

The vampire: a huge bat; a beautiful woman, sometimes, a

man with a mania for sucking human life-blood.Lives in a castle sleep in a coffin, near a graveyard

Appearance: purplish and dark in color; had longfingernails

Easily attacked by sacred items like garlic, holy water,bible or the cross

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Languages Features

Use of technical vocabulary

- Genre

- People involved in the creation of the work

- Oscar-nominated; Oscar-winning; Commercial filmUse of adjectives: to describe the work itself, its

characters and players etc. Adjectives give the reader thereviewers opinion on what the experience is like

Use of Simple Present Tense: to describe the action inthe work

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