Welcome to English 110: Intro to Film at Linn-Benton Community College. In this course, you will learn about the basic elements of motion picture production, aesthetics, history, and theory over the next 10 weeks.

 

Course Overview Video

 

To get started, click on the next item in this Module (aka folder), the course syllabus and schedule, which outlines the learning objectives, assignments, and other information about the course. The syllabus also includes a schedule of the weekly reading and film-watching you'll need to be doing along with hyperlinks directly to the free textbook and movies we'll be using. The syllabus also includes a link to the readings from our free online textbook, which combines written chapters with terrific supplemental videos from YouTube to enhance your understanding of course topics.

 

My Monday night of Week 1, you will see a new Week 1 Module that will have this week's Discussion Board assignment; in the meantime, please get started on the reading for this week and watching our first movie. All movies for this course have been selected from the Sony Pictures Classic streaming movie collection provided by the LBC library.  By using films distributed through a single production/distribution company - Sony Pictures Classic - you'll have a unique look at how a major media corporation uses its "independent" branch to reach particular audiences. You'll learn about the history of American motion pictures by reaching Chapter 1 of the textbook - as you read, take time to watch as many of the supplemental YouTube videos as you can as well to enhance your understanding.  and by watching a documentary that takes you through all of the preproduction work that happens on a movie before it ever gets made by telling the story of perhaps the most famous movie that was never actually made - Jodorowsky's Dune -- so you can learn more about how and why certain movies are made and why so very many more movies never make it into production.