Please each of the following question with a minimum of 200 words each.

• In your opinion, what do you think constitutes a great film? Would you consider any of the films you have recently watched to be great? Why or why not? Please use a specific film exam.
• According to the book “The Film Experience”:
  • “Film culture is the social and historical environment that shapes our expectations, ideas, and understanding of movies. Our tastes, viewing habits, and venues all inform film culture; in turn, film culture transforms how we watch, understand, and enjoy movies in a variety of rapidly expanding ways. We can catch a showing of the epic Lawrence of Arabia (1962) on cable, join lines of viewers at an old movie palace for the latest installment of the Star Wars franchise [Figure I.1], enjoy the anime fantasyGhost Hound (2007) instantly on the Netflix Web site, attend a documentary festival at a local museum, or watch the short silent films of Charlie Chaplin on an iPad. Our encounters with and responses to these films — how and why we select the ones we do, why we like or dislike them, and how we understand or are challenged by them — are all part of film culture and, by extension, film study.” (p.6)
  • How would you describe the film culture that surrounds you today? How does it position you to enjoy certain films or kinds of films?
• Here’s a nice video/article on collaboration at Pixar:
  • http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/inside-screenwriter-talks-collaborative-pixar-849437
  • What are some of the main points for this video? What have you learned?
• Please watch the following video, with the creators of Toy Story talking about its storyboard:
  • https://youtu.be/QOeaC8kcxH0
  • What are your overall thoughts after watching this video? How important was storyboard to the success of Toy Story? Was the storyboard created for some scenes very similar or different when compared to the actual film scene?Toy Story Storyboard
• According to the book “The Film Experience”:
  • “A distributor is a company or an agency that acquires the rights to a movie from the filmmakers or producers (sometimes by contributing to the costs of producing the film) and then makes that movie available to audiences by renting, selling, or licensing it to theaters or other exhibition outlets. Producers and distributors were once identified with the same studios but after legal challenges in 1948, those businesses were clearly separated and distinguished. Today, however, companies often participate in both production and distribution. Top-grossing distributors include Warner Brothers, Walt Disney Pictures, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, and New Line. Smaller by comparison, other companies include Miramax, Focus Features, United Artists, and Magnolia Pictures.” (p. 29)
  • How might the distribution of a film that has been released in the last year have been timed to emphasize certain responses?
• According to the book “The Film Experience”:
  • “The aim at each step of filmmaking is to create an artistic and/or commercial product that will engage, please, or provoke viewers. In short, film production is a multilayered activity in which industry, art, technology, and imagination intertwine. It describes the different stages — from the financing and scripting of a film to its final edit and, fittingly, the addition of production credits naming the companies and individuals involved — that contribute to the construction of a movie. Production may not seem like a central part of our film experiences as viewers, but the making of a film anticipates an audience of one sort or another and implies a certain kind of viewer. Does the film showcase the work of the director or the screenwriter, the cinematographer or the composer of the musical score? How does the answer to this question affect our perspective on the film? Understanding contemporary filmmaking in its many dimensions contributes to our appreciation of and ability to analyze films.” (p. 21)
  • In your opinion, and after reading the whole “Production: How Films are Made” segment from the book (pages 21 to 29), what is the most important phase of production (pre-production, production or post-production)?
• According to the article “Why We Love Sad Movies. By: Black, Harvey, Scientific American Mind, 15552284, Jul/Aug2012, Vol. 23, Issue 3”, “After watching a sad movie, people are happier about their own life, researchers at the Ohio State University report online in March in Communication Research. Almost 400 undergraduates (211 women, 150 men) viewed a segment of Atonement. Before and after the film the students completed a survey about happiness in their life and relationships. The participants felt happier afterward, the researchers found, because they reflected on their own relationships and thought about how much their loved ones enhanced their life — in effect, counting their blessings — not because they concluded that their life was better than those depicted in the film.”
  • Have you had a similar experience before? Please explain, including the name of the film.

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