A (mostly) visual analysis
From Screenpedia
Each student will analyze the visual humor in a short film by Buster Keaton.
- You will be assigned a short
- Learn basic Wikipedia editing and create a Wikipedia-style article for your short on Screenpedia. (The best articles will be uploaded to Wikipedia.)
- Learn how to make screenshots (probably with VLC Media Player) and capture at least one from every shot in the short.
- Submit your screenshots. Due in class Tuesday, 9/20.
- Select a short segment (minimum 5 minutes) and identify comic moments in it.
- Use the theories of humor we discussed to explain why they are comic.
- Submit in print in class Tuesday, 10/4.
- Worth 35 points.