Intersession

Intercession is a three week course that every student has to take. there were different class topics for middle school and high school students. which ever class that you chose to be in, that was the class that you were in for the next three weeks. The class that I chose was called Exploring Film. In this class I was taught the different shots that cameras can do, I was also taught the different types of lens that is used during movies. In this class the Film teacher Ms.Whitman- Allen showed different genres of movies so that the class can see and figure out what types of cameras were used and so that we can watch movies from different genres. Some of the different types of movies that we watched were Citizen Kane, Pleasantville,Sound of music, Man on Fire, Some Like it Hot, and Blood Simple by The Colen Brothers. We watched different movies from different genres we also watched a movie that had no talking but showed text after the scene and that movie was called Battleship Potemkin we watched short films also. All of this led up to the movie trailer that was being created, the movie trailer that i was trying to reflect off of was The Titanic, my movie trailer had a action genre. For intercession we made a movie trailer of our own choosing, the movie trailer i chose to make was about the titanic. We had to be really creative when making the trailer because of the genre that we chose. I decided to make my trailer a action trailer, which took me a lot of figuring out how i was going to pull off an awesome movie trailer, so i decided to watch a bunch of titanic trailer and i tried to figure what parts i was going to use. My intersession teacher Ms.Whitman-Allen gave all of her students copies of the movies that they wanted to make into a trailer. This project also involved a lot of inquiry because no one had any clue how to start off their trailer so we asked Ms.Whitman-Allen for different opinions on what should be done for the portfolio and we had to ask to know that we were headed in the right direction. In making a trailer that shows the genre and leaves you with questions

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