Moulin RougeThe second film we are watching this term is Moulin Rouge a romantic comedy musical with a tragic twist. This Baz Luhrmann film stars Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman.
It tells the story of a penniless writer, Christan, in Bohemian Paris at the turn of last century who falls in love with the leading lady, Satine, of the Moulin Rouge. Their story is cleverly told through the production of a play "Spectacular Spectacular" in which Satine stars and the Christa in writes.
We will be focusing on techniques used in the film to create effect. Costume, music, lyrics, lighting, film angles and camera movements will all be discussed.
The students will be sitting an assessment in Week 7 of term 3. This will be the second half of the unit standard 12424.
To see the standard please click on link below.
Worksheets:
Moulin Rouge Editing and Symbolism
Moulin Rouge Notes
Year 12Eni is doing a film study for the first 3 weeks of term 3.
This is to work towards unit
12424.The film is rated M13.
Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik, a penniless eighteen year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, is one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” But when the show breaks for the night, suddenly, he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. After all, how could an uneducated street kid possibly know so much? Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal’s story, the jaded Police Inspector spends the night probing Jamal’s incredible past, from his riveting tales of the slums where he and his brother Salim survived by their wits to his hair-raising encounters with local gangs to his heartbreak over Latika, the unforgettable girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of Jamal’s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show’s seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out…
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/slumdogmillionaire/As a class we will be looking at the main ideas of the movie and investigating both verbal and visual techniques used by the director to create different effects in the film.
Here are a list of worksheets we have used in class so far:
Film Shots