Expressionism

Find out about Expressionism and create a detailed blog post with images and your own response to the movement. It needs to be clear and concise but reasonably comprehensive - a few sentences and two pictures won't do it. It needs to be about the main ideas behind the movement, it's brief history and several examples with some commentary, including your individual response to the expressionist tradition

Contemporary Cinema

What was it like to go to the pictures in the 1920s? We are going to explore lots of ideas - the way the cinema and its technical equipment developed as well as how the audience of the time reacted to the films they saw as well as a history of the form's development and the rapid changes that cuased a revolution in the world of cinema of this period.

You will begin by creating a blog and doing some initial research into the first moving pictures, Das cabinet des Dr Caligari and Harold Lloyd, a silent cinema film star.

Start to find out some stuff about the 'normal' cinema of the time...research into Harold Lloyd. Find some clips from his films on youtube - choose TWO and link them onto your blog, writing up your thoughts about cinema in the early twenties - what was it like in terms of the viewing experience? What are the differences for you as a viewer compared to modern film?
How do you think contemporary audiences felt at the time? BLOG IT.Give Mrs Thrasher your new blog address. Please also use wikipedia.

Welcome to the Blog on German Expressionism

For this part of FM4 you are studying World Cinema and the area we are investigating is GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM and we will look at Soviet Realism (a bit) and the effect that these early films have had on later cinema.

Things will start to get posted as we move through the topic so add yourself as a follower!