Option
3: Movie Critic
Welcome
back to the Multimedia Lab! In today's class, you
will watch a film trailer and listen to a critic's review of a modern
film.
One goal of this class is to give you an opportunity to see where you might find listening options for audio film reviews on the internet. But another aim is for you to listen to/speak in English about various components of films, plotlines, and critical reviews with your classmates and your lecteur. If you are interested in completing Option #3 for your Listening Portfolio, today is might be a day to get some ideas!
Step
1: CHOOSE
A
FILM! To
begin, skim through the 9 different links to films listed below
and choose one that might be interesting to you. These links are
from
different sites.
Step
2:
WATCH
AND LISTEN
to your
selected movie's trailer and audio review(s) a few times. Read
STEP 3 so
you know what to be thinking about while you are listening.
Step
3:
CHOOSE
ONE
ACTIVITY from the 5 choices below:
1. Invent-your-own-ending! With a partner, or by yourself, create what you imagine could be an ending for your film. Be prepared to get up and act it out or read it/give a dramatic reading to the class. Your "performance" should last 2 minutes.
2.
Public
Relations Agent: Convince the class
that this film is the greatest film
ever! You are the Media
Representative for the film company that produced this film and you are
trying
to convince the class to buy the film to show in their theaters. What makes this film special or
unique? What should everyone know
about it?
3.
Record
your Own Review: Using the Creative
Wave program on the computers in this
lab, make a recording of your own impressions about this film after
watching
the trailer and listening to the audio review. What
looks interesting? What did you hear that
you have questions about, or an
opinion about? Listen to your recording and ask your lecteur to listen
too. There
are tips for using Creative Wave on the 3LCE site.
4.
Word
Study: If
your trailer includes actual dialogue from the film (not just an
over-narrative
for promotion) analyze the language that you hear in the trailer. What
accents
do you hear? What register
language do the various characters use?
What vocab can you cite to illustrate that?
Be prepared to present your findings to the class.
5.
Siskel
and Ebert:
These two guys were famous movie reviewers in the US that had a
weekly
show. Now you get to be them.
With a partner, prepare a 2 minute
sketch where you give your "review" for the class. You
can have opposing views. Use the audio
review for your film to give you ideas about
what to say.
Step
4:
Perform!
Or record! Or promote! Or
present!
#1: NEVERLAND
Johnny Depp and Kate Winslett were both
nominated for
Best Actor/Actress for this film
Trailer:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/finding_neverland/
Variety of extracts – scroll down & choose one, RealPlayer or QuickTime
http://www.cinemovies.fr/fiche_extrait.php?IDfilm=2150
Review (a bit more than 3 minutes long)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4167699
Review: 2 1/2 minutes
http://movies.ksl.com/phputil/review.php?movie=578
Quick 1 minute overview – start listening at 1:20 in Real Player
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4167250
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#2:
RAY
Jamie Foxx won best actor for his performance
in this film
at the 2005 Oscars.
Trailer "Ray": (Biography of Ray Charles Robinson)
http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/ray/
Review: 7 minutes
http://movies.ksl.com/phputil/review.php?movie=567
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#3: MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Won best film at the 2005
Oscars.
Hillary Swank won Best Actress as well.
Trailer:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/million_dollar_baby/
Review: 3:13 minutes
http://movies.ksl.com/phputil/review.php?movie=602
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#4: HITCH
Trailer:
http://www.ifilm.com/player/?ifilmId=2664096
Review: 2:35 minutes
http://movies.ksl.com/phputil/review.php?movie=606
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#5:
BRIDGET JONES' DIARY
To hear an
audio review :
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1121411
Trailer:
Watch the one marked "TRAILER 2" as the
rest are in German!!!
http://www.moviemaze.de/media/trailer/142.html
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#6: BEFORE NIGHT
FALLS
Javier Bardem was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar
Review:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1117072
Trailer:
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/trailer.html?v_id=215445
Trailer:
http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/scripts/media_view.pl?type=Trailers&trailer_ID=81&id=11468
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#7: DONNIE DARKO
Watch
the Trailer or film clip:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/donnie_darko/trailers.php
Interview
with the director, Richard Kelly:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/collective/previews/richardkelly_low.ram
Interview
with the star, Jake Gyllenhaal:
http://theonenetwork.com/movies/Donnie_Darko/1077/Interview_with_Jake_Gyllenhaal_300.html
Listen
to a review:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3893691
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#8:
THE TERMINAL
directed by Steven Spielberg, with Tom Hanks
and
Catherine Zeta Jones
September 2004
To watch the trailer:- 3 choices:
http://justmovietrailers.com/video/3965/the_terminal_trailer.html or
http://theonenetwork.com/movies/the_terminal/1317/info_page.html or
http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=793255
To listen to a review:-
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1964313
#9: Monsters, Inc.
Trailer: choose a format, biggest is best
To
watch the "Charades" scene
trailer:
Review (6m13s –
Real
Audio)
http://real.ksl.com/movies/movie_143.ram
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