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Film Focus and Helpful Links for Assignments

Character 
  • Character Traits
  • 12 Common Archetypal Characters - Soulcraft Co. 
  • The Hero's Journey - Mythic Structure of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth - ​Dan Bronzite - Movie Outline

Tone and Mood
  • ​Tone Words

Editing 
  • ​​Editing - Visual Literacy

Setting 
  • The Storytelling Potential of Film's (Often) Underappreciated Star Character - V. Renee - No Film School - Includes a VIDEO.

Mise-en-Scene
  • What Mise-en-Scene Is and Why It Matters - Indie Wire​
  • Learn 15 Key Elements of Mise-en-Scene from this Handy Infographic - No Film School (see below for infographic or click on this link)
​Camera
  • ​Camera Shots - Video Regarding Visual Literacy Film Techniques 
  • Camera Angles - Video Regarding Visual Literacy Film Techniques
  • Camera Movement - Video Regarding Visual Literacy Film Techniques​

Lighting and Color
  • Lighting Examples - (I'm not sure from whom I got this document, but I'll be sure to give credit if someone claims it!)
  • ​Color Symbolism and Culture - Incredible Art Department
  • How Color Helps a Movie Tell Its Story - Kate Torgovnick May - Ideas.Ted.com

​​Sound and Music​
  • Foley Artist - Academy Originals, Youtube
  • An Introduction to Film Sound - Jane Knowles Marshall - Film Sound.org
  • Digetic and Non-Digetic Sound - Film Sound.org
  • Natural / Neutral and Characteristic Sound - Film Sound.or
  • The Aesthetics of Film Music - Roy Prendergast - Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Useful Film Study Links

101 Free Silent Films - Open Culture
Academy Originals - Short videos offered regarding film-making and other cool info.
AMC's Filmsite - Home page - Excellent source with detailed plot synopses, reviews, film analysis, film scenes, film quotes 

AFI - American Film Institute - 100 Years Series - Great Lists - NOTE: AFI's Home Page is below in the red "Super Links"
BFI - British Film Industry
cineCollage - Lots of links
​Critical Commons - "For fair and critical participation in media culture"

Film Registry - National Film Registry Board - Library of Congress 
​The Grammar of TV and Film - from Jerry Brown
How are Hollywood Movies Made? - Annenberg Learner
IMDb - Charts and Lists - Great link
IMDb - The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made - Great list​
Movie Cliches List - Uh, yep, you have viewed these scenes again and again and again!
​Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Turner Classic Movies Database - Great site for background of movies 
Voice of the Shuttle - Their Media Page - Tons of resources

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IMDB Home Page
 

IMDB Charts - Top 250, Bottom 100, Box Office, Top per Genre.  Fun link.
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​​AFI Home Page
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AFI "100 Years . . . 100 Movies" lists.
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Turner Classic Movies aka TCM 
AMC's filmsite.org   

Major Movie Awards
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Academy Awards Database, with every winner and nomination for every year.

Oscars Current year
​​Golden Globes Past Winners and Nominees DATABASE

Hollywood Foreign Press Home Page

Cool Links with Random Film Info!

11 Strange Movie Jobs Explained - Mental Floss
20 Things You Didn't Know about The Shawshank Redemption - The Daily Beast
40 Blockbuster Movies the Critics Got Wrong - MSN
100 Most Influential People in History of the Movies - AMC's Filmsite.or

BFI's 50 Greatest Films of All Times
David Bordwell (website and blog)
Drew's Scrip-o-Rama - Cool Site

Eight Best Movies to Watch Legally on Youtube - The Shortlist (one removed as of April 2015)
Film History by Decade - AMC's Filmsite.org
​Filmmaking - Wikiversity
Films Based on Actual Events - Wiki List
Free Movies Online - Open Culture
He Jason Bourned Me - Hahaha!
History in the Movies - Professor Cathy Schultz
How Plan Nine from Outer Space Earned, and Lost, the Title of Worst Movie of All Time - The Dissolve
Hushpuppy, Anarchist, Antihero - Salon (review)​
Language of Cinema: Martin Scorsese's Essay Explains the Importance of Visual Literacy - No Film School
List of Stock Characters - Wiki
Longest Movie Summary on Wikipedia - You will never guess this one - Salon
Major Movie Awards - Tony Barnes Journal
Media College Free resources for film and digital media production
Movie a Minute - Go a minute? Watch a movie! Ha!

Movie Clips – The New York Times “Movie Shorts For Short Attention Spans”
Movie Scripts - Simply Scripts.com
Movies - Thought.com - Several lists
Mystery Net - Online mystery site with links regarding books, movies, TV
New York Times Movie Reviews - You may be limited with how many articles you can access
Open Culture - Free Cultural and Educational Media
Oracle of Bacon - Kind of addictive website 
The Pixar Theory - All of the Pixar movies actually exist in the same universe

Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Silent Era Films on Home Video - Silent movies and background
Ten Second Films - Weird but cool - Wildlabs
What Beasts of the Southern Wild Really Says - The Atlantic (review)
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Why Bill Murray is Awesome
CNN - Why Bill Murray Is the Greatest Movie Star in the World
Tumblr - Why Bill Murray Is Awesome
Bill Murray Stories - No One Will Ever Believe You - Bill Murray shows up in random places and joins people in their random activies.

​Screenplays/Storyboards
Screenplay Formatting
Storyboard Template - RWT


Product Placement in Film
15 Most Annoying Examples of Product Placement in 2016 - Screen Rant
22 Shameless Product Placements in Movies - Ranker
Top 10 Best Product Placements in Movies - WatchMojo.com
SAG (Screen Actor's Guild) Awards

Cool Links and Useless Info

Hitchcock
Psycho - Articles Related to Psycho from
Bright Lights Film Journal
Hitchcock - Articles Related to Alfred Hitchcock from Bright Lights Film Journal

Mise-en-scene - From No Film School

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