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Ms. Lute from Daytona Beach FL is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Fine Arts: Introduction to Film Studies - The Films

My students need 18 various classic films on DVD for an introduction to film class. Films will be used in tandem with our textbook, "Film Studies: An Introduction", by Ed Sikov.

  • $352 goal

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My Students

Who can have a film class without the classic films? These films will be shown in tandem with Ed Sikov's "Film Studies; An Introduction. My students will have an easier time understanding the theory explained in their textbooks if they can visually see the theory on screen.

My students are enrolled at a public charter school for pregnant and parenting teens in Florida.

They enjoy movies but know nothing of film theory or production. My students have a fine arts requirement that this course will fulfill. I hope that I can play off their interest in movies and teach them more of film history and theory.

My Project

In addition to teaching my students camera shots, editing, special effects, and cinematography, these films will open my student's eyes to things they might not view normally. I want to expose them to this art and to different films. My students will also have an easier time understanding the theory put forth in their textbook if they can visually see it.

I am hoping that my students will emerge from this course with a new understanding of this art form and a new appreciation for the films they have viewed.

I want them to take an interest in film and entertainment and use what they have learned for a lifetime of film appreciation.

Ms. Lute
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Howard Hawks, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn • AKJ BOOKS $11.39 1 $11.39
Casablanca Michael Curtiz, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid • AKJ BOOKS $10.67 1 $10.67
Blair Witch Project Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez, Heather Donahue, Michael Williams • AKJ BOOKS $0.00 1 $0.00
Touch of Evil Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia • AKJ BOOKS $23.07 1 $23.07
Scarface Howard Hawks, Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley • AKJ BOOKS $12.81 1 $12.81
All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders • AKJ BOOKS $12.34 1 $12.34
Rope Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger • AKJ BOOKS $12.34 1 $12.34
The Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigory Alexandrov • AKJ BOOKS $21.36 1 $21.36
The Jazz Singer Alan Crosland, Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland • AKJ BOOKS $35.99 1 $35.99
Romance & Cigarettes John Turturro, James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet • AKJ BOOKS $7.82 1 $7.82
Inside Man Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster • AKJ BOOKS $10.73 1 $10.73
2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick, Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester • AKJ BOOKS $22.30 1 $22.30
Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes • AKJ BOOKS $16.52 1 $16.52
West Side Story Robert Wise, Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn • AKJ BOOKS $7.11 1 $7.11
Directors: Life Behind The Camera • AKJ BOOKS $26.99 1 $26.99
The Bear Jean-Jacques Annaud, Douce the Bear, Bart the Bear, Tch ky Karyo • AKJ BOOKS $9.01 1 $9.01
Shadow of a Doubt Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, MacDonald Carey • AKJ BOOKS $12.34 1 $12.34
Thelma & Louise Ridley Scott, Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel • AKJ BOOKS $7.11 1 $7.11

Materials cost

$259.90

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$298.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$52.73

Total project goal

$351.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$351.53

5 Donors

-$351.53

Donations toward project cost

-$298.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$52.73

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