Description:  This unit will include the viewing and critique of a chosen film as it relates to patterns of film form as well as the relationship between form, concept and verisimilitude.

Objectives:  After completing this unit students should be able to,

1. Differentiate between form and content.
2. Identify the different ways expectations can shape your interpretation of a movie.
3. Know patterns commonly used in movies.
4. Define the different factors that contribute to the illusion of movement in movies.
5. List different ways movies can manipulate space and time. 
6. Define and identify the significance of verisimilitude in both realism and antirealism.
7. Define cinematic language. Describe how cinematic language is analogous to written language

Instructions:  To successfully complete this unit students will need to do the following activities,

1. Watch the preselected film “The Maltese Falcon” – director, John Huston (1941)
2. Complete the “Film Critique” assignment.  
3. 1. Do any narrative or visual patterns recur a sufficient number of times to suggest a structural element in themselves? If so, what are these patterns? Do they help you determine the meaning of the film?2. Do you identify with the camera lens? What does the director compel you to see? What is left to your imagination? What does the director leave out altogether? In the end, besides showing you the action, how does the director’s use of the camera help to create the movie’s meaning?