In this lesson the students will be slightly immersed in the commercial world of advertising. Since this is written for a beginning multimedia class I would not delve too deep into the subject since I would probably delve deeper into a more advanced...

Students will learn how to adapt a scene from a play into a scene for a film. It is assumed that the students already understand how the codes of film work....

Students will complete a during-viewing activity in which they write down all of the different perspectives presented about Fred A. Leuchter in Mr. Death....

This lesson is based on Core Principle 1 (Media Literacy Education requires active inquiry and critical thinking about the messages we receive and create) and invites students to learn how to recognize how media messages are constructed for particu...

Students will identify the elements of Realism and Formalism that can be found in Charlie Chaplin's The Kid (or another appropriate silent film)....

By looking at Walter Dean Myers’s novel Monster and considering other various source texts and adaptations, students will become familiar with the complex way that adaptations relate to their source texts. Students will create a map from a source ...

The students will review/remember all the different elements discussed and practiced in previous classes and apply them to the analysis of a single film. / The students will have a foundation for analyzing the film Repentance with the intent to util...

The students will understand the significance of camera movement in film. / The students will have a foundation for analyzing camera movement in Shall We Dansu?. Their abilities to analyze the film's camera movement will be assessed in their respon...

The students will understand the significance of characters in film—their traits and how the represent the society in which they were created. / The students will have a foundation for analyzing the characters in Three Men and a Cradle. Their abi...

The students will understand the significance of the use of color in film. / The students will have a foundation for looking for the use of color in Amélie. Their abilities to analyze the color in the film will be assessed in their response papers...

After learning about the requirements for the final project for this unit, the students will fill out a comparison and contrast matrix in which they analyze the style, form, and content of the screwball comedy genre, working individually or in groups...

Students will synthesize their understanding of generic conventions and mediated reality by examining and discussing how contemporary forces influence teen genre conventions....

Students will demonstrate proper planning and design by utilizing an instructional design model such as ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate) in the development of multimedia projects...

Students will create MySpace accounts for fictional characters as a form of character analysis. ...

Students read a brief outline of what the term "genre" means. They will apply this concept to both music and film by outlining the specific style, form, and content of specific genres, working in groups. Afterwards, students will watch a brief docu...

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Students will demonstrate their understanding of mediated reality by capturing “real” images in the classroom and creating a pact that defines what would be required for them as media creators to capture reality in their media productions....

The students will understand the significance of depth of field in film. / The students will have a foundation for analyzing depth of field in The Scent of Green Papaya. Their abilities to analyze the film's depth of field will be assessed in their...

Core Principle 5: / Media Literacy Education recognizes that media are a part of culture and function as agents of socialization. / / Core principle #5 suggests that: / Media Literacy Education recognizes that media are a part of culture and ...

Students will begin to investigate the economic factors associated with the production of adaptations. They will consider the large volume of media productions based no adaptations and prepare to compete in “Film Producer’s Apprentice,” by wor...

In the completion of the two lessons focusing on the economic factors at play with the creation of adaptations, students will present their marketing plans and adaptation ideas to a group of judges in the “Film Producer’s Apprentice” game. Thi...

Continuing with the previous day’s lesson, students continue filling out a packet of film vocabulary terms. The packet contains a series of graphic organizers which help to visually represent the relationship of different film terms. The students...

The objectives of this lesson are to: 1) allow the students to realize that every type of media contains messages – both explicit and implicit – that a piece can have multiple messages, and that these messages can be intentional, and unintentiona...

In order to teach the ways that music is used to enhance the meaning of the visuals in film, students will view a series of film clips and analyze how the images and the music combine together to make meaning....

The students will understand the significance of the historical context of a film—the history that influences the characters and story of a film. / The students will have a foundation for analyzing the film The Lives of Others with an understandin...