Instructions: Create single-sheet "video sheets" from the formats below. Leave a block of empty space (for the student's notes) after each ID of film/production.

Assuming your class has 28 students, make 3 copies of the "Script" sheet and 5 copies of each of the others. To the script sheet, attach a xerox copy of the text of the scene you are showing (so that students doing "script" can mark it up). Hand out the "script" first, to volunteers (it's the hardest), then distribute the rest of the sheets as appropriate across the class. Lately, I've been having students sit in groups--all the "script" people together, all the "visual" together, all the "set and scenery" together, etc. This has the advantage of letting students "pool" what they see, and no one "always" gets to talk first and use up all the good points.

After handing out the sheets and forming groups, show the first scene. Then give the groups a minute or two to pool their information. Then run through the topics, starting with "script" and let each group tell what they have observed.

After discussing the scene from the first production, show the scene from the second one. Repeat the process of consultation and report, this time with an emphasis on comparison with the first scene. Discourage students from emphasizing "like" or "dislike," and reinforce "similar" and "different."

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Film Video Analysis

Script: Additions, Deletions, Rearrangements, Emphasis on words and phrases

[Insert 1st film ID here; i,e., BBC production, 1981, with Bob Hoskins as Iago]

[Insert 2nd film ID here;; i.e., Oliver Parker production, 1995, with Kenneth Branagh as Iago]

_________ make a new page ___________

Film Video Analysis

Visual: Light and Darkness;
 Camera Angles, Close-ups, Distance Shots

[Insert 1st film ID here]

[Insert 2nd film ID here]

_________ new page ___________

Film Video Analysis

Aural: Sound Effects and Music

[Insert 1st film ID here]

[Insert 2nd film ID here]

_________ new page ___________

Film Video Analysis

Set & Scenery

[Insert 1st film ID here]

[Insert 2nd film ID here]

_________ new page ___________

Film Video Analysis

Costumes & Properties

[Insert 1st film ID here]

[Insert 2nd film ID here]

_________ new page ___________

Film Video Analysis

Stage Business & Blocking

[Insert 1st film ID here]

[Insert 2nd film ID here]