Exploring and appreciating the world of film

Activity 1: Use this link to visit the Internet Movie Database’s Top 250 Movies list:  IMDB Top 250
From this list, select 10 films that you have not seen, but are interested in viewing. Be adventurous; choose films from genres that you may not normally watch. Ensure that you select films which are an appropriate age rating.

1.	Gran Torino
2.	Gravity
3.	The King's Speech
4.	The Truman Show
5.	Jurassic Park
6.	The Dark Knight
7.	Inception
8.	Forrest Gump
9.	The Matrix
10	12 Years a Slave

Activity 2: Select 2 of your favourite films and complete the following information about each one:

Information	Film 1	Film 2
Title	The Vow	10 things i hate about you
Genre/s	Drama/Romance	romance/comedy/drama/teen film
Director	Michael Sucsy	Gil Junger
Writer/s	Jason Katims, Abby Kohn, Stuart Sender, Marc Silverstein	Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith
Cinematographer	Rogier Stoffers	Mark Irwin
Editor	Nancy Richardson, Melissa Kent	O. Nicholas Brown
Lead actors	Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum	Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles

Activity 3: Select 3 of the following directors and list 4 films that they have directed:
James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee, Rob Marshall, Christopher Nolan, Yimou Zhang, David Fincher

Director	4 Film titles
1. Steven Spielberg	Jurassic Park, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, Jaws, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2.Martin Scorsese	the wolf of wallstreet, hugo, shark tale, shutter island
3.James Cameron	Avatar, titanic, the terminator, the abyss

Complete in the Table below:

Activity 4: From the list of genres below, select any 5 and complete the table.
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime and Gangster, Drama, Epic/Historical, Horror, Musical/Dance, Science Fiction, War (Anti-War), Westerns.

Genre	5 example films belonging to this Genre	List some common elements used in these genres; (consider elements of Mise-en-scene, Cinematography, Sound (Effects and Music) and Narrative Conventions i.e. typical scenarios or characters).
Comedy	Frozen, The Wolf of Wallstreet, Grownups 2, Silver linings playbook, This is the end	Slapstick comedy, catchy music, one character that is always making people laugh
Action	Transformers, Captain America, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Divergent	car chases, quick edits, one scene pure action
Horror	Carrie, The Conjuring, You’re Next, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Would you rather	low - slow scary music, dark settings, scary characters
Science Fiction	Enders Game, Man of Steel, Star Trek, Star Wars, X-Men	aliens, spaceships, intense music
Drama	12 years a slave, Dallas Buyers Club, American Hustle, The Great Gatsby, Endless Love	over dramatic, music to catch you attention, over the top