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Welcome to the unit & Reading
—Reading Comprehension
Know some film types and jobs about film-making;
Understand the structure of Reading and some technology in film-making;
Appreciate the hard work behind the scenes and develop a right attitude towards one’s career.
Learning objectives
Brainstorming
1.What types of films do you know
Action
A film whose storyline involves fast-paced activities and conflicts, usually including violent fights.
Welcome to the unit
A film that is made by photographing a series of drawings.
Cartoon
A film that is intended to make people laugh.
Comedy
A film that gives detailed information about a particular subject.
Documentary
A film in which very frightening or unnatural things happen.
Horror
A film that is based on imagination and not facts.
Fantasy
A film that is based on imagined scientific discoveries, and often deals with space travel and life on other planets.
Science fiction
Musical
A film that includes singing and dancing.
A film about the love between two people.
Romance
A film in which a fictionalized(虚构的) or fact-based story is told about an actual historical war.
War
Enjoy the movie trailer for Harry Potter and think about the following questions.
1.What elements of a film can you think of
2.Which elements do you think is the most important in making a sucessful film
1.What elements of a film can you think of
special effects
character
acting
music
dicrecting
screenplay
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2.Which element do you think is the most important in making a successful film
I think the music is the most important element. It can tell us how the people in the film feel and create a certain kind of atmosphere. The film would be boring without it.
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Let’s unveil the secrets of film-making according to a professional, a film critic!
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Now skim the title and the first paragraph and answer the following questions.
2.What do you think the film critic will talk about in the lecture
I think the film critic will talk about something that we may not be familiar with in film-making.
1.Which sentence can show the article is a lecture
Pre-reading
Hopefully, next time you go to the cinema, you’ll spare a thought for all those talented people behind the scenes.
Props also contribute to a film’s success.
Another aspect I attach great importance to is visual special effects.
To begin with, I’d like to draw your attention to an important factor of a film—sound effects.
Actually,the film you see on the screen is the product of a huge amount of hard work, most of which takes place behind the scenes.
Some aspects of film-making behind the scenes require a lot of hard work.
Think of and appreciate the work behind the scenes.
Props
Visual special effects
Sound effects
Pra. 1:
Para. 2:
Para. 3:
Para. 4:
Para. 5:
1.Read the lecture transcript and find the topic sentence for each paragraph.
While-reading
Activity 1 Fast-reading for main ideas
2.What’s the main idea of the text
A.How to make a film.
B.The development of film-making.
C.The brief introduction to some aspects of film-making.
D.What film-making will look like in the future.
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1.Why does the film critic begin his lecture with a question
________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________
To attract the audience’s attention, to make the audience think and
to connect the lecture’s topic with their background knowledge.
2.Paraphrase: Try to explain the sentence in your own words.
No matter what your answer is, it is more complex than it seems.
Para. 1
Whatever your answer is, there’s always a lot more to it than first meets the eye.
Activity 2 Careful-reading for details
1.How does the film critic support his idea
A.By giving examples.
B. By asking questions.
C.By making comparisons.
D. By analyzing causes.
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Para. 2
2. Fill in the blanks according to the lecture.
Many sound effects might be made in the way (1)__________________.
The (2)_________ of a baby elephant, a tiger and other animals (3)___________ by a computer.
A dinosaur roar in Jurassic Park.
The sound of the doors opening in the Star Trek films
Pulling (4)________________out of (5)____________.
sounds
were mixed
you would not expect
a sheet of paper
an envelope
1.The film critic uses the example of the Quidditch scenes to show ________.
A. that visual special effects can only be made with the help of computers
B. that green matches any natural hair or skin colour in the studio
C. how important it is for actors to jump up and down in the studio
D. how visual special effects are made with the help of a green screen
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Para. 3
2.What does the word “This” in the sentence “This enables CGI effects to be added later.” mean in the third paragraph
A. The green screen.
B. The CGI technology.
C. The quality of green not matching.
D. The Quidditch scenes.
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3.Fill in the chart according to the lecture.
Visual special effects (1)__________has been frequently used in film-making.
The Quidditch scenes in the Harry Potter films were
made with (2) _________________up and down in front of a green screen.
Peter Jackson(3)______________________: he used clever camera angles.
the actors jumping
took a creative approach
CGI
1. What can we learn from Paragraph 4
A. The model of the Titanic was built smaller.
B. A film’s success also comes from the exact props.
C. It took the director 100 days to find information about the Titanic.
D. It was not long before the director had the prop of ship built.
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Para. 4
2. What do the numbers in the sentences “Director James Cameron spent six months looking at and revising plans of the Titanic...It took 500 workers 100 days to build the fine model...” suggest in the fourth paragraph
Great effort is made to research, find and build props in order to make a film look real.
Just as the poor passengers on the real Titanic saw the tip of the iceberg, what we see on the cinema screen is just of _________________________film-making.
1.What rhetorical device(修辞手法) does the film critic use in this paragraph
A.Metaphor(隐喻).
B.Personification(拟人).
C.Parallelism(排比).
D.Exaggeration(夸张).
the tip of the huge iceberg
A metaphor compares one thing to another without using “as” or “like”. It draws readers’ attention to the similarities of two things. This way,unfamiliar thing can be explained with something people are more familar with.
2. In this paragraph, film-making is compared to (1)__________as they share some similarities. As we can see only a (2)_____ part of a huge iceberg out of the (3)_____, what we see (4)_____________ when seeing a film, is also just a small part of (5)___________.
an iceberg
small
ocean
on the screen
film-making
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Para. 5
3.What’s the purpose of the film critic to use the rhetorical device (修辞手法)
To clearly convey to the audience the large amount of work that has been done behind the scenes in film-making.
What’s the structure of the passage
Structure
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1.It is common to see a lot of people leave the cinema without paying enough attention to the credits(片尾字幕).Do you think this is proper behavior (Critical Thinking 批判性思维)
Personally,I don’t think it is polite behavior.As mentioned in the lecture,behind the scenes are many people who have put a lot of efforts into making the film.If we leave the cinema without seeing the credits,their hard work remains unacknowledged.Furthermore,those who work behind the scenes deserve our respect,and seeing the credits is one way of showing our respect.
A list of acknowledgements
(感谢) of those who contributed to the creation of a film.
Post-reading
Activity 1 Discussion
(1)There are many different parts in film-making and they need to work together smoothly for the film to be a success.Even the parts you cannot see are important in some way.
(2)Each job has its own value, no matter whether it is done on the screens or behind the scenes.
2. After learning the lecture, what do you think makes a great film (Creative Thinking 创造性思维)
What we have seen on the cinema is just the tip of the huge iceberg of film-making.
There is a huge amount of hard work which has been done behind the scenes and which is unknown to most of us.
People who work behind the scenes deserve our respect and we should be thankful to them.
Let’s think of and appreciate their hard work.
Reflection
Film-making involves great efforts behind the scenes, of which some aspects are not familiar 1._____ the audience.
One typical example is the sound effect.Contrary to 2.______ many people may expect, they are often added after a scene 3.___________________(shoot). In fact, sound effects are often made by mixing different sounds on computers.Another important aspect of film-making process where computers 4.________(use) is visual special effects. And CGI is a technology 5.___________(frequent) used in making such effects.
to
what
has been shot/is shot
are used
frequently
Activity 2 Summary
However, not all 6.________(direct) prefer the aid of computers in their works.Some of them employ creative approaches 7. _________(achieve) their goals.Of course, what contributes to a 8.____________(succeed) film includes many other aspects.For instance, great effort is made to research, find and build props in order to make a film look real.
In short, it is the joint effort of many 9.________(talent) people 10.____are behind the scenes of a great film and they deserve all the credit.
directors
to achieve
successful
talented
that
Hello, everyone! Let me start by asking you a question: what’s the first thing you notice about a film The acting The music Maybe the amazing sets Whatever your answer is, there’s always a
lot more to it than first meets the eye. Actually, the film you see on the screen is the product of a huge amount of hard work, most of which takes place behind the scenes. Today, I’ll give you a brief introduction to some aspects of film-making you might not be familiar with.
让步状语从句
某人或某事比表面看到的更为复杂
定语从句
非限制性定语从句
演讲中开篇常用句
Activity 3 Analyze the key points of the text
Para. 1
某人或某事比表面看到的更为复杂
There’s always a lot more to sb./sth. than meets the eye
含义
在我看来,那个问题比表面上看上去的更复杂。
As far as I’m concerned,__________________________
___________________________.
完成句子
there’s always a lot more to
the problem than meets the eye
To begin with, I’d like to draw your attention to an important factor of a film—sound effects. These are often added after a scene has been shot and might not be made in the way you would expect. For example, in Jurassic Park, the sounds of different animals, including a baby elephant and a tiger, were mixed by a computer to make a dinosaur roar. The sound of the doors opening in the Star Trek films was made simply by pulling a sheet of paper out of an envelope.
吸引某人的注意力
时间状语从句
定语从句
Para. 2
Another aspect I attach great importance to is visual special effects. CGI has been frequently used in film-making as a special effects technology. Generally, scenes requiring CGI are filmed in front of a green screen in the studio.As green doesn’t match any natural hair or skin colour, actors can be easily separated from the background. This enables CGI effects to be added later. The Quidditch scenes in the Harry Potter films were made in this way with the actors jumping up and down in front of a green screen. However, the aid of computers isn't always preferred. Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of the Rings films, took a creative approach—he used clever camera angles to make characters seem bigger or smaller than they really were.
定语从句
现在分词短语作定语
as引导原因状语从句
“with+宾语+现在分词”的复合结构
认为……很重要
Para. 3
Props also contribute to a film’s success. To make a film look real, great effort must sometimes be made to research, find and build objects. Director James Cameron spent six months looking at and revising plans of the Titanic in order to build a full-sized model for his 1997 film. He talked to historians to ensure that the details were correct and even went down to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to see what was left of the ship for himself. It took 500 workers 100 days to build the fine model, not to mention the thousands of props inside.
不定式作目的状语
宾语从句
宾语从句
it作形式主语
Para. 4
My lecture today may not be able to do justice to all the work people have done behind the scenes. Just as the poor passengers on the real Titanic saw the tip of the iceberg, what we see on the cinema screen is just the tip of the huge iceberg of film-making. Hopefully, next time you go to the cinema, you’ll spare a thought for all those talented people behind the scenes. They have worked for months and even years so that you can have two hours of enjoyment!
恰当处理,公平对待
主语从句
隐喻的写作手法
时间状语从句
结果状语从句
定语从句
方式状语从句
Para. 5
Preview Language points and recite the key points of the text.
Homework