Syllabus: Mini-Course #238 Present Like A Hollywood Movie

Present Like A Hollywood Movie. Course number: 238
Summer 2016, May 1-6, 2016

Instructor: Alin Farhadipour (M.A. in Cinema&Theatre Studies)
Faculty Advisor: Professor Aubrey Anable

Email: presentlikehollywood@gmail.com

http://presentlikehollywood1.blogspot.ca/

Description:

How can your presentation emulate a Hollywood movie? Do you want to inform and train as well as entertain your audience in a PowerPoint/Prezi presentation?

This is a course for future successful students, presenters, businessmen, and movie makers. We will work together to employ cinematic narrative, suspense, gaze, framing, affect, mood, atmosphere, sympathy, conflict, and climax to direct your audience. We will also discuss the most recent communication techniques while having fun watching and analyzing presentations from Dragons’ Den, X-Factor, presidential debates, and sales’ pitches. At the end of this course, each student will have made a cinematically-inspired presentation on a topic of their choice. 

Course Work:

Readings

Chapters from:

Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie. The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking, (Simon and Schuster, reissued, revised, 1977).

David Bordwell, The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies, (University of California Press, 2006).

Syd Field, Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting, (Delta; Revised edition, 2005).

John Richters, JR. Attacking the Myths of Public Speaking: Winning with Individuals and Groups. (The National Underwriter Company)

Watching Educational Videos

Successful presentations from “Dragons’ Den” and “America’s Got Talent.”

How to do successful PowerPoint presentations.

How to write a good story.

How to make a good short film.

Taking Notes

Take notes from discussed points and activities in the class.

Writing Daily Reports

Write daily reports about daily activities (1-4 paragraphs).

Sharing Relevant Essays/Videos With The Class

Spend a few minutes a day to find relevant material on the internet and share them with the class.

Making Powerpoint Files Collaboratively

Make short PowerPoint presentations collaboratively on the topics of your choices.

Final Powerpoint Presentation

Make a final PowerPoint presentation and present it on the last day of the class.

Volunteering

You choose to do the volunteering works needed in the class.

Schedule:

May 1^st (Sunday)

Orientation Day, introducing the course material, and visiting library.

May 2^nd (Monday)

Reading chapter(s) from The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

Watching videos on how to do a good presentation.

Reading a chapter from Screenplay.

Watching videos on how to write a good story.

Reading a chapter from The Way Hollywood Tells It.

Watching videos on how to make a good short film.

Discussion about the read chapters and watched videos.

Internet activities: finding relevant material, successful presentations, and essays based upon which you will make your PowerPoint presentations during and by the end of class.

May 3^rd (Tuesday)

Sharing found material and discuss them with the class.

Preparing collaborative presentations based upon the gained knowledge on May 2^nd (Monday).

Giving your collaborative PowerPoint presentations to the class.

Analyze and discuss collaborative PowerPoint presentations—finding their soft/power points, and also their relationship with the read/watched material.

May 4^th (Wednesday)

Collaboratively re-structuring the given PowerPoint presentations based upon critiques and feedback.

Giving the revised collaborative presentations to the class.

Discuss revised presentations.

Start finding a topic for your final PowerPoint presentation.

May 5^th (Thursday)

Work on your own PowerPoint presentations, applying the in-class gained knowledge and experience.

May 6^th (Friday)

Submitting your Final PowerPoint presentations electronically and giving your presentations to the class.

ACCOMMODATIONS:

Not all students learn in the same way, and some students may need different accommodation to ensure they are able to succeed. Students seeking alternatives to traditional classroom participation or assignments are encouraged to discuss accommodations as early in the class as possible.

Additional Information, Mostly For Your Future Studies

·        The Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities (PMC) provides services to students with Disabilities:
http://www1.carleton.ca/pmc/

·        Plagiarism: http://calendar.carleton.ca/undergrad/regulations/academicregulationsoftheuniversity/acadregsuniv14/

REDISTRIBUTION OF COURSE CONTENT:

Student or instructor materials created for this course (including lecture slides, presentations, and lecture notes) remain the intellectual property of the author(s). They are intended for personal use and may not be reproduced or redistributed without prior written consent of the author(s).