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Film Analysis Worksheet

This document provides a framework for analyzing a film sequence through 15 questions. It guides the analysis of elements like cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, and sound. It also prompts consideration of how the sequence reflects the overall film's theme and course theme of identity and the individual. Students are asked to cite outside sources that could help their analysis and discuss specific sources and quotes they may use.

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Film Analysis Worksheet

This document provides a framework for analyzing a film sequence through 15 questions. It guides the analysis of elements like cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, and sound. It also prompts consideration of how the sequence reflects the overall film's theme and course theme of identity and the individual. Students are asked to cite outside sources that could help their analysis and discuss specific sources and quotes they may use.

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  • Introduction to Film Analysis: This section introduces the film analysis worksheet, covering the identification of basic details about the film.
  • Formal Elements Analysis: Focuses on analyzing formal elements like cinematography, mise-en-scène, and editing in the chosen film sequence.
  • Interpretation and Source Evaluation: Guides the analysis on broader thematic interpretations related to identity, and the evaluation of sources used in discussing the film.

FILM ANALYSIS WORKSHEET

Your name

1) Film title 2) Director, year 3) Mode (for instance,


adaptation)

4) Approximate time code 5) Title or brief description 6) Number of shots in selected


(beg. – end.) of selected scene of sequence sequence

7) What happens, at the level of plot or narration, in this sequence?

8) What role does this sequence play within the larger action of the film (e.g. rising action, climax,
turning point, exposition, character development, motifs, patterns, etc.)?

9) In a sentence, state the overall theme (implicit meaning) of the film.


Take notes on the following formal elements of your chosen sequence.

10) Cinematography. Note composition, camera Meanings. Note the ways in which the formal
movement, off-screen space, color, etc. element contributes to our understanding of the
theme you’ve identified.

11) Mise-en-scène. Use of props, sets, costuming, Meanings.


lighting, etc.

12) Editing. Pacing, rhythm, graphic matches, Meanings.


continuity, transitions, etc.
13) Sound. Music, effects, dialogue, intensity, Meanings.
motifs.

14) How does, in your opinion, this selection reflect the course theme (Identity and the Individual)? What
are specific examples that you can give to support this claim?

15a) Works cited. Think about and list some specific types of outside sources that may be helpful in your
analysis (i.e., historical information, other literary texts, etc.)

15b) Which specific outside sources will you use (based on the information above)? Do you have specific
quotations, paraphrases, etc. already identified? What are they?

15c) Describe why you have chosen the above sources/quotes. How do they help your argument?

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