Create your own genre movie character
Instructions
The following films are from three different film genres: comedy, horror, and science fiction. Choose one film to watch for your Week Three Individual assignment. Submit your selected movie to your facilitator for approval.
*Film Genre: Comedy
-The General (1927)
-Sons of the Desert (1933)
-A Night at the Opera (1935)
-The Great Dictator (1940)
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
-Heaven Can Wait (1978)
-Airplane! (1980)
-National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)
-Raising Arizona (1987)
-The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
-Hot Shots! (1991)
-Soapdish (1991)
-Dumb and Dumber (1994)
-The Nutty Professor (1996)
-Meet the Parents (2000)
-Zoolander (2001)
-50 First Dates (2004)
-The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
*Film Genre: Horror
-Dracula (1931)
-Frankenstein (1931)
-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
-Freaks (1932)
-The Mummy (1932)
-Island of Lost Souls (1933)
-King Kong (1933)
-The Black Cat (1934)
-Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
-The Night of the Hunter (1955)
-Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
-What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
-The Birds (1963)
-Night of the Living Dead (1968)
-Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
-Blacula (1972)
-The Exorcist (1973)
-Jaws (1975)
-The Omen (1976)
-Dracula (1979)
-The Changeling (1980)
-A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
-The Stepfather (1987)
-The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
-Army of Darkness (1993)
-Se7en (1995)
-The Ring (2002)
-Saw (2004)
-Constantine (2005)
-I Am Legend (2007)
*Film Genre: Science Fiction
-THX-1138, 1791
-2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
-Forbidden Planet, 1956
-Invasion of the Bodysnatchers,1956
-Star Wars, 1977
-The Empire Strikes Back, 1980
Watch your selected comedy, horror, or science fiction film, viewing one film from one of the three genres.
Create a 4- to 7-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation describing your selected genre and how your chosen film fits or does not fit the standard model of the genre.
Include the following:
Description of your selected genre
Description of the film’s following components:
Summary of the film’s story
Setting & lighting
Makeup & costumes
Music & sound
Discussion of the film as either typical or atypical of its respective genre and how each film’s components support your view
Address fictional aspects of film as discussed in Ch. 6 of Filmby writing the following for inclusion on one Microsoft® PowerPoint® slide:
Create your own genre movie character and write a goal for your character, a conflict he or she encounters, and how he or she resolves the conflict and achieves the goal.
