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HUM 150 Entire Course HUM 150 Week 1 DQ 1 HUM 150 Week 1 DQ 2 HUM 150 Week 1 DQ 3 HUM 150 Week 1 DQ 4 HUM 150 Week 1 Summary HUM 150 Week 1 Assignment Film Viewer Opinion Paper Write a 500- to 700-word paper in which you address the following questions. How do you decide which films to watch? In your opinion, what makes a film enjoyable? In your opinion, what makes a film unenjoyable?

HUM 150 Week 1 DQ 1 Who contributes most to a film’s success? Why? What do you focus on most when watching a film? Why? When deciding to go to a movie, what influences your decision (genre, director, star, and so forth) regarding which movie to choose? HUM 150 Week 1 DQ 2 Think of a film in which the main character shows development. Describe the character’s personality and circumstances at the beginning, middle, and end of the film. How did elements such as conflict, dialogue, or appearance demonstrate the development? How did your feelings about the character evolve in relation to these changes?

HUM 150 Week 1 DQ 3 Identify your favorite movie genre, movie, film actor, film actress, movie soundtrack, TV show on movies, movie website, where you find the movie times and why you like them. HUM 150 Week 1 DQ 4 What impacts your decision of which movie to see – genre, director, star, etc.? Where do you get your information about a movie to make the decision to see it? How and where do you prefer to watch a film?

HUM 150 Week 1 Summary HUM 150 Week 2 Assignment Editing Watch the movie you selected in Week One. Complete the University of Phoenix Material: Editing, Sound, and Music Worksheet, based on the film. The word count requirement for each section should read 250 words, not 50 words. Make sure that you list the title of the film, the name of its director and the names of its principal actors at the top of your Worksheet before beginning

HUM 150 Week 2 DQ 1 Lighting can be crucial to film – sometimes to such an extent that lighting can help define the particular film genre. Film Noir, for instance, and if you are not familiar with Film Noir, look it into it and you'll see what I'm getting at. So what similarities and differences would you take into consideration when shooting horror, romantic comedy, detective, and musical comedy genres. How would your lighting choices HUM 150 Week 2 DQ 2 Describe the most memorable costumes and makeup you have seen in film. What effect did this have on characterization and the film as a whole? Is there ever not an effect, intended or otherwise? To what extent is authenticity important? Always? Or are there exceptions, and if so, why so? Explain and provide examples.

HUM 150 Week 2 DQ 3 Discuss with examples the fundamental elements of setting (including but not limited to location, time, era, weather, and buildings). Sometimes setting is essential to a story, such as in The Perfect Storm, in which the setting HUM 150 Week 2 DQ 4 List the various types of sounds you hear during a movie. What purpose does each serve? (TIP... the book describes the Types of Sounds)

HUM 150 Week 2 DQ 5 Imagine your house or apartment is a set for a movie in which you are starring. What would the set tell the audience about you and your life? Why? What elements would be most revealing? How do moviemakers use sets to reveal character information, and create tone and mood for the story? Recall a scene from a film you have seen recently to illustrate your point. HUM 150 Week 2 Summary

HUM 150 Week 3 DQ 1 How would you film your story into a 20-minute segment your friends would sit through? And keep in mind that in addition to entertainment, most dramas are produced to convey a film-maker's point-of-view or messages/lessons considered HUM 150 Week 3 DQ 2 Coordinating your responses here with DQ 1, consider the story you wish to tell. Stories require conflict, or at least a lot of tension, in order to generate interest. So, first, what's the conflict in your story and how are you plotting it out?

HUM 150 Week 3 DQ 3 DQ 3 covers settings. DQ 1 covers mechanics and DQ 2 covers characters and plotting. So it's only natural that to tell your story, you need to provide the fundamental elements of setting (including but not limited to location, time, era, weather, and buildings). Sometimes setting is essential to a story, such as in The Perfect HUM 150 Week 3 DQ 4 Imagine you are a character in a teenage slasher horror movie. What sounds do you hear? What sounds do you not hear, but the audience does? From these, discuss how sound manipulates audience reactions in horror films. Name some other characteristics one finds in all horror movies. How do they contribute to horror?

HUM 150 Week 3 DQ 5 Imagine you are a character in a comedy. What sounds do you hear? What sounds do you not hear, but the audience does? From these, discuss how sound manipulates audience reaction in comedic films. Name some other characteristics one finds in all comedies. How do they contribute to comedy? HUM 150 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Film Matrix Resources: University of Phoenix Material: Film Matrix; University of Phoenix Material: Comedy and Horror Films List; Week Three Electronic Reserve Readings; and Microsoft® PowerPoint® Tutorial · Select one comedy and one horror movie from the list to watch as a team. · Watch, as a team, the selected comedy and horror films.

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HUM 150 Week 4 DQ 2 One way of judging films (as well as literature, poetry, other forms of drama, etc.) is through time – specifically, by responding to the four following questions: HUM 150 Week 4 DQ 3 What about the acting in animated or half-animated movies? Would you say that some of these movies are harder for (and on) actors – such as Avatar, in which the actors wore suits with electronic gizmos that recorded their movements for the computers to recreate with the Avatar people?

HUM 150 Week 4 DQ 4 If you created a film from the year you were born or a year of your choice, what tools would you use to place it in the proper context? Refer to the Film in Context chart in the text for guidance. Select a movie you are familiar with from the chart and identify the context. HUM 150 Week 4 DQ 5 How has this class changed the way you will watch films? Describe your new approach to movie appreciation.

HUM 150 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Film Matrix Resources: University of Phoenix Material: Film Matrix; University of Phoenix Material: Romance, Western, and Documentary Film List; Week Four Electronic Reserve Readings; and Microsoft® PowerPoint® Tutorial · Select, as a team, one Western, HUM 150 Week 4 Summary

HUM 150 Week 5 Assignment Movie Critic When deciding what movie to watch, a typical thing to do is to check the newspaper or Internet for movie reviews. In this assignment, be a movie critic and report your findings to the public. Do not use material you have gleaned from professional or newspaper reviewers. This paper is to be based solely on your own observations and concepts/language that you have absorbed from HUM 150 Week 5 DQ 1 Imagine you are a character in a comedy. And also a romance. And yet again in a comedy- romance. What sounds do you hear? What sounds do you not hear, but the audience does? From these, discuss how sound manipulates audience reaction in comedic, romantic, and comedy-romantic films. Name some other characteristics one finds; how do they contribute?

HUM-150-Week-5-DQ-2 Now imagine you are a character in a horror movie. Again, what sounds do you hear? And what sounds do you not hear, but the audience does? Similar to Q 1, discuss how sound manipulates audience reactions in horror films. Name some other characteristics one finds in all horror movies. How do they contribute HUM-150-Week-5-DQ-3 Now let's consider (again?) the importance of a film’s context to its overall effect. What is meant by “context”? If a film was watched out of context (however you define it), do you think its meaning would be lost? So, first, select a movie you are familiar with and identify its context. For example, think of a children's or adult movie you

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