please remember… this week i am starting to enforce class rules: discovery 2 bathroom passes ...
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Please remember…
This week I am starting to enforce class rules: Discovery
2 bathroom passes
Tardy
Phone violations
Before class begins, please turn in materials for the Silent film unit – paper clip them together: Movie review basics notes
Silent film notes
Movie review for The Kid
The Musical
Setting the Stage
Heart of the musical lies in its music and those who sing and dance to it
The music functions as an extension of the character singing (shows their personality, ideas, motivation, etc.)
Musical Reality
Very different from classical narrative reality
There are sudden shifts between narrative and musical spectacle
There is a shift between one reality to another that involves a rupture or break
Musical numbers break the linear flow of the narrative and shifts to a world of spectacle and fantasy
Shifts in Register
Two different dramatic registers: Narrative and spectacle
Often these shifts are accentuated by technical elements Shifts of scenery
Lighting changes
Fog/wind machines
Anything that helps the illusion of a shift to a fantasy world of music
Types of Musicals
Two main types Revue – nearly all spectacle with little
or no narrative between songs
Book musical – prominence of the story book background – integrates musical and narrative sequences – goal is a seamless integration of the two
Ideology of the Musical
Creates a utopian space in which our daily problems do not exist Poverty replaced with abundance
Work related exhaustion becomes limitless energy
Dreariness of everyday routine becomes excitement and intensity
Isolation becomes close knit communities
Men and women find their perfect matches and win them over
The end and the beginning
Traditional musicals declined in the 1960’s and began a general move from film to Broadway
From the 1970’s to today there has been a rise in different types of musicals than seen before: Rock n’ Roll and popular music
themed
Animated features (Walt Disney esp.)
After school specials (precursers to High School Musical)
Unit Films
Popeye – 1980 – Robert Altman – The adventures of the sailor man and his friends in the seaside town of Sweethaven.
Pitch Perfect – 2012 – Jason Moore – Beca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school's all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition.
Unit Films
Meet Me in St. Louis – 1944 – Vincent Minnelli - In the year before the 1904 St Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.
Grease – 1978 – Randal Kleiser - Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?