1. Friday January 30, 2009 Agenda Welcome to Film Club’s First Viewing
Pre-Discussion [3:40-3:50 pm]
Watch Film [3:50– 5:50 pm]
Post-Discussion Wrap-up [5:50-6:00 pm]

2. Before We Get Started Is film club for you? TODAY WE FIND OUT.
Each officer will select a movie for their month.
That movie must be G, PG, or PG-13 (with special permission)
You must make a Powerpoint/presentation of some sort that has a pre-viewing and a post-viewing discussion.
Movie IS NOT THE SAME THING AS A film.
Cannot be made in the past 5 years.
Next time: send out list of people to bring snacks/drinks?

3. Pre-Viewing Discussion
Citizen Kane (1941)
A.F.I. = #1 FILM OF ALL TIME
About a wealthy newspaper owner who dies—his last word is “Rosebud.” The movie attempts to solve the mystery of what the last word means.
“Kubla Khan” poem is central to this film.

4. Pre-Viewing Discussion
Kubla Khan
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Citizen Kane
Xanadu is Kane’s home; he built it for a lot of money.

5. Citizen Kane Filming Stuff YOU SHOULD KNOW
Long shot: full subject, surrounding scene
Medium shot: waist-up
Close up: face or body part
Low angle: subject is shot from below
High angle: subject shot from above
Dutch angle: subject is shot tiled to one side
Soft focus: object is out of focus
Deep focus: background and object are in equal focus
Rack focus: shifts focus back and forth between objects.

6. Angles
Low (from Citizen Kane)—position of power or importance

7. Angles
High—position of little power or importance; adults talking to children are often represented in this way

8. Angles
Dutch (from Battlefield Earth)—warped sense of right or what is important

9. Pre-Viewing Discussion
Questions to ask yourself:
What are the angles and lighting telling me about these characters?
What is ROSEBUD?
Is this really a movie made in the 1940’s?
To me, feels more like a 70’s movie, minus the drugs.

10. Post-Viewing What did you think of the movie—be honest!
Are you disappointed with what ROSEBUD turned out to be?
Did it seem like a 40’s film to you?
What DIDN’T you like about the film?
Suggestions for next viewing?
To be made by the Secretary, Donna (2/27)