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Thursday, September 4
art of the film 4:55 PMHad my first lesson today, Art of the Film, a Year 1 foundation course for Film Studies majors. At the end I should have a better understanding of the basics of film history, its techniques and terminology; one of the course objectives is also to introduce films outside the normal range of student interest, and to hence encourage students' creative and reflective, rather than judgmental responses.
Classes here are split into 2 half-seminars at slightly less than 1.5 hours each, so weekly class time is lesser than that in SMU (though it hence occupies slots on 2 different days). Art of the Film though, consists of nearly 5 hours of class time weekly, but it's cos we are supposed to watch a different film/movie on Thursday every week, then discuss it the following session.
Lessons are held in a mini-theatre that is AIR-CONDITIONED so it was damn cold (and Js had his Geography lesson in a chapel today, which was quite funny haha). It's a pity there are no projects in this course, so interaction is limited. But I do have 3 quizzes, a short paper and a final exam for this. Yucks. It's hard getting into the "I'm an exchange student and I don't need to study that hard" mood yet leh.
We watched Charlie Chaplin's City Lights today; supposed to reflect on what is being portrayed and possibly Chaplin's techniques of injecting comedy. His movies were said to have been stuck in the transitory phase in the late 1920s, when sound and dialogue were first being introduced into films. Because his revolved around silent comedies, people gradually lost interest in Chaplin. Anyway, City Lights was interesting cos it seemed to portray many themes including love and romance, compassion, and the tensions/differences between the upper and lower classes during the period of the Great Depression.
On a random sidenote, the Winnipeg Transit (bus) system is really inefficient and we nearly got lost today while heading to the bank. Had to walk 1plus hour to get back to where we needed to go.. legs are horribly aching now and it was so so cold :(
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