ASSIGNMENT: The Directors

The Directors:

What:               You will explore and research the backgrounds and influences of this diverse group of filmmakers.  After doing so, you will type/print the following:

                        Name; time of life; one paragraph on his personal background; one paragraph on education/training; one paragraph on how he influenced later films/filmmakers; listing of significant films (5+) and date made.  Finally, bibliographical listing of sources (3+) using MLA format.

Where:             You will have each Director Bio located within your portfolio/journal.  Each will be dated and titled in order (Starting with Chaplin and ending with Spielberg)

When/Who:      Below is a listing of directors that you will research and the date of the assignment.

Due:                Assigned on the WEEK OF date.  Due the first day of the following week.
Italics indicates director assignments that have been turned in.
Bold Face indicates director of the week.

Week Of:            Director:

9/1                         Charlie Chaplin

9/9                         Carl Dreyer

9/16                       Sergei Eisenstein

9/23                       Robert Wiene

9/30                       Fritz Lang

10/7                       Jean Renoir

10/14                     John Ford

10/21                     Orson Welles

10/28                     Ingmar Bergman

11/4                       Federico Fellini

11/18                     Alfred Hitchcock

11/25                     Jean-Luc Godard

12/2                       Francois Truffaut

Break:  Due to Oral Presentation preparation, we will take a break from the director assignments

                             Akira Kurosawa

                             Sergio Leone

                             Stanley Kubrick

                             Martin Scorsese

                             Francis Ford Coppola

                             Woody Allen

                             Steven Spielberg

(Director Name): (time of life)   (Assign. Date)

Personal Background:              TEXT………………(all indented)

Education/Training:                   TEXT………………(all indented)

Influence on Industry:              TEXT……………..(all indented)

Significant Films:          1              (Date)

                                       2              (Date)

                                       3              (Date)

                                       4              (Date)

                                       5              (Date)

Bibliography:                 1

               

                                        2

               

                                        3