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Visual Literacy and Maxed Out

Today we began watching Maxed Out, a 2006 expository documentary on American debt.  As we watch, take note of how the argument is presented, keeping in mind the various elements that make up the movie:

  • Audio
    • Spoken
    • Background
    • Soundtrack
  • Video
    • Shot composition
    • Shot
    • Mise en scene
    • Camera placement
    • Framing
    • Subject arrangement
    • Camera angles
  • Written
    • Title
    • Labels
    • Subtitles

We will discuss articles tomorrow and finish up the movie on Wednesday.  You will be analyzing the film (as you would an article) on Friday.

[BTW, Rope was filmed in ten shots—not bad for an eighty minute film.]

[Also, there was no mention of a kangaroo in the seven-year-old's "rampage" at the zoo in Australia...]

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Responses to ... Visual Literacy and Maxed Out
Gwyn said... October 7, 2008 at 10:24 PM

I was just watching the cnn commentators after the debate and john carville said "lets not go gently into THAT night" =]. thanks to you i actually got the reference.

JStallings said... October 7, 2008 at 10:27 PM

Yes!

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