Film Studies

Good afternoon Roadrunners and welcome to the final week of school! The students had a blast this past week with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Alfonzo Curron does a fantastic job of [...]

Good afternoon Roadrunners and welcome to week 36! In honor of Star Wars Week last week, we watch the perfect film Empire Strikes Back, examining how John Williams use of the Imperial March for [...]

Good afternoon Roadrunners and welcome to week 35! Between the insanity that is end of year volleyball and yearbook I realized I haven’t been following up with the amazingness that is Film [...]

Good evening and welcome to week 31! It’s that hectic time of year: come back from break to three half-days, conferences and the testing season! We finished out study of Spielberg last week [...]

Good evening and welcome to week 29! It was an odd week to get back into the swing of but I feel like we’re moving in a good direction. With the shift in focus to the craft of making films, [...]

Good morning and welcome to week 28! Last week marked our shift from studying film to making film. Students were given choice menus for different types of videos they can make, or they could [...]

Good evening and welcome to week 26! After tackling the deeper subject matter of dark comedy we decided to take a break from themes to refocus on elements of cinematography. For film genres [...]

Good evening and welcome to week 25! We finished our study of dark comedy last week; Stranger than Fiction was well received by the students and a good endpoint to the dark comedy segment. On [...]

Good morning and welcome to week 24! We finished our first film of our dark comedy series; dark comedy is a subgenre of comedy that makes light of a subject matter considered taboo, or to [...]

Good evening and welcome to week 23! Last week we finished The Amazing Spiderman and began discussing what film(s) we’d examine and discuss in class. I gave the students the option of [...]