Explanation of the use of free writing in creative writing and a practise exercise to the prompt "rainy days ..."

Return to analysis of film still and presentation of "close reading" techniques for images.

Showed students a still from Gaslight and left this on the screen for 1 minute to allow students select a connection point. Students then discussed the reason why they selected the particular connection point they did.

Then students wrote in a free writing manner to this visual connection point.

Later they wrote to the initial still, but using the prompt "intimidation"

Discussed students' questions on their film review.

Read Holland's article "Who says film is dead?" from the Psychology Today blog and reproduced in the manual - discussed how watching movies at home affects the experience.

Very interesting discussion on Holland's proposal that we absorb/acknowledge as part of our living experience visual images that "stop our motor systems" - extended this discussion to the discussion of photojournalistic pictures that seem to wake people up like the picture of Omran Daqneeesch from Aleppo. . Discussion of Kelly Grover's article "Images that stop the world in its tracks" also reproduced in the manual.

Expanded discussion art vs reporting (article also shows Paula Rego's War, which was based on a picture.

Learning Visual Literary techniques - moving on from CPE/newspaper film analysis to a more academic approach.

Analysing for form - moving away from an analysis of narrative, we looked at how analysing a film still from its technical presentation and then applying an analytical approach to this technical interpretation one can achieve insight into the movie, without knowing more about its narrative as such, much as close reading of the text offers the same insight into the life, times and challenges the author faced.

Students presented Timothy Corrigan chapter "Six Approaches to Film Analysis" - text available in manual.

This work was all in preparation for the students' submission of their review of Gaslight on Monday 24th October.

Watched the end of Gaslight.

Writing a film review from CPE style to newspaper style (manual pp29 -37).

Moving on to writing an academic film review. Students have to read the chapter "Six Approaching to Writing about Film" by Timothy Corrigan at the end of the manual.

Watched George Cukor's movie Gaslight (1944) with the view to discussing how/why Colm Toíbin uses this film in his novel Nora Webster as Nora Webster is the set novel for the Curricular Unit.

Also students will have to submit a formal review of this film on Monday 24th October, so they watched it to take notes for this review.