
Film Critique Terms
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Arts
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11th Grade
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Easy
Adam Rauscher
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22 Slides • 13 Questions
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● Critique is positive and negative
● Don’t just say “good” or “bad”
Film Study
Content Objective: Learn the language for critiquing movies
Language Objective: In writing, define “cinematography,” “plot,” “dialogue,” “performance,” “editing,” and “sound
Grab the chromebook assigned to your number and follow these instructions
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Movie Critique
● Critique is positive and negative
● Don’t just say “good” or “bad”
● Be specific
● Be constructive
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Reality
Plot
Dialogue
Character
Performance
Music
Cinematography
Editing
Sound
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● A movie reflects the reality of the human
experience
● You see yourself, people you know, or your experiences on
screen
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● The complex of mental and
ethical traits
marking and often
individualizing a
person
● What makes the people unique
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Open Ended
What is one detail that makes the character of Megan interesting in this scene?
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Open Ended
What is a detail of the way that Jennifer Lawrence plays this character that makes it compelling?
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Open Ended
Give a detail about this song. Tell me something you observe about the feelings, genre, or character of the song.
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● How the choices of lenses, composition, and lighting
creating the look of the
movie
● The pictures
that you see
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Every choice in filmmaking is to accomplish at least one of these things:
Tell the story
Reveal character
Set the mood
Why do filmmakers make their choices?
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Open Ended
Connect a choice made in here about lighting, camera angles, color, or position in the frame and connect it to how the filmmakers are trying to tell their story
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● To assemble film by arranging or rearranging
● How long shots last and which shots we see when
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Open Ended
How do the editing choices help tell the story? Pick a detail and describe how it tells the story.
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● all aspects of a film's audio track, from the dialogue and sound effects to the mix of the final track
● What we hear
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Open Ended
How does the sound in this scene (background, music, effects, dialogue) establish the story, character, or mood?
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The Assignment
Find a clip that you love from any kind of video. It needs to be 2-5 minutes and PG-13 or lower. You will describe it based on one of the vocabulary words
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Now you practice
critiquing these scenes
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Open Ended
Critique this scene in ONE WAY (Plot, Dialogue, Reality, Character, Performance, Music, Cinematography, Editing, or Sound). Describe that aspect of the scene and connect how that affects the story, mood, or character
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Open Ended
Critique this scene in ONE WAY (Plot, Dialogue, Reality, Character, Performance, Music, Cinematography, Editing, or Sound). Describe that aspect of the scene and connect how that affects the story, mood, or character
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Open Ended
Critique this scene in ONE WAY (Plot, Dialogue, Reality, Character, Performance, Music, Cinematography, Editing, or Sound). Describe that aspect of the scene and connect how that affects the story, mood, or character
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Open Ended
Critique this scene in ONE WAY (Plot, Dialogue, Reality, Character, Performance, Music, Cinematography, Editing, or Sound). Describe that aspect of the scene and connect how that affects the story, mood, or character
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Open Ended
Critique this scene in ONE WAY (Plot, Dialogue, Reality, Character, Performance, Music, Cinematography, Editing, or Sound). Describe that aspect of the scene and connect how that affects the story, mood, or character
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Open Ended
Critique this scene in ONE WAY (Plot, Dialogue, Reality, Character, Performance, Music, Cinematography, Editing, or Sound). Describe that aspect of the scene and connect how that affects the story, mood, or character
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Open Ended
Critique this scene in ONE WAY (Plot, Dialogue, Reality, Character, Performance, Music, Cinematography, Editing, or Sound). Describe that aspect of the scene and connect how that affects the story, mood, or character
● Critique is positive and negative
● Don’t just say “good” or “bad”
Film Study
Content Objective: Learn the language for critiquing movies
Language Objective: In writing, define “cinematography,” “plot,” “dialogue,” “performance,” “editing,” and “sound
Grab the chromebook assigned to your number and follow these instructions
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