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Turn Off The Lights!
American Cinema Project 2013
Brought to you by the Daled English Classes, Hebrew U. Secondary School
Eight Teams — Eight Different Movie Themes: looking at movies in ways
we’ve never looked at them before
Special points of
interest:
Original poster designs by
student teams in each
class!
Links to student
presentations of favorite
movies!
Big Ideas about famous
movies!
What were we doing for 3 months?
We were working in teams of 2-5
students, on our selected movie —
doing research, analyzing scenes and
trying to figure out the Big Idea of
our movie and how we could explain
it to others. We learned how film
reviews are written and tried to
write our own.
Our first creative product was to
design original posters based on our
theme, which had to include a slogan
and also get across the theme
visually. We consulted with artists
and some classes met with computer
and film experts. Our posters were
printed in a professional art studio
and hung up on the walls of our
school.
Then, we had to put together a
presentation
One Class Theme: Transforming
the Written Word to the Silver
Screen
finishing everything, I think that both
of us feel on behalf of every Daled
class student, that we are all very
proud to present the final fruits of
our work!
(In the end, It was actually fun.)
Dariya Prilutskiy and Neta Licht
The Student Editors
In the past 3 months, we submerged
ourselves into this fascinating
Cinema Project. We worked in groups
of 2-5 students each on assembling a
complete and final presentation on
the movie each of the groups chose.
In that process each group designed
in English that would explain our Big
Idea and analysis in a way that 7th
graders could understand.
We planned a Cinema Day for the
younger students so that they could
learn about how to look at movies in
a more meaningful way. We also
wanted them to have a good time so
we created an atmosphere of a Movie
Convention, including movie promo
booths, giveaways related to our
class themes and free popcorn!
7th graders were asked to fill out
trivia quizzes based on the
multimedia presentations and the
poster presentations.
A Word from our Student Editors
a poster, made a trailer, wrote an essay
discussing the topic and theme each class
had.
The process was long and grueling,
building each part of our final
presentation to the point of perfection
was not easy at all. But now, after
List Of The Topics:
Lisa’s Class:
Transforming Words to the Silver
Screen
Evrea’s Class:
Prime Crime Time
Anav’s Class:
The concept of TIME
Debora’s Class:
History-Making Moments
Naomi's Class:
Helping Others
Samara’s Class:
The World Has changed
Frieda’s Class:
Relationships
Jonty’s Class:
Fantasy versus Reality
Thank You!
We would like to thank the following individuals who generously shared their time and their expertise with us to help make this project the best it could be: Mr. Sri Kulkarni , Director The US Embassy's American Center in Jerusalem , for the wonderful and insightful American film workshops Ms. Michal Carmon and Ms. Shelley Alexander for their artistic input and feedback in helping us create the poster exhibition. Adi Blumenfeld for his expert help with computer-related issues Mr. Tzion Ben-Hamo, Mr. Guy Hen and Mr. Yossi Dror from the Meshek for helping us with all the technical issues in constructing movie stands and putting up the exhibition Dr. Gilead Amir and Mr. Amnon Sadovsky for all the school support
The Student Organizing Committee for making this first Cinema Day possible: Maya Vaknin Neta Licht Hila Megged Dariya Prilutskiy Dana Orzach Tal Avrahami Maor Atias Avital Yerushalimski Inbar Efrati And lastly to all our wonderful teachers for making this idea come to life, and especially for Evrea Ness-Bergstein for inventing this new and awesome way of making us learn!
Thank You For Everything!! Daled English Classes
2012 - 2013
Evrea's Daled Class
We were interested in the whole idea of
crime, criminals, punishment for crimes and
justice in society.
We asked ourselves: is it possible for a law
to be unjust? When is it ethical (if ever) to
take the law into your own hands?
Is revenge ever justified? Can criminals be
both good and evil?
How do the poorer segments of society, the
persecuted, the falsely accused fight back?
Many of the movies we chose dealt with
these issues. We met with a former Israeli
Ambassador who had served in Middle
Eastern countries and in Russia and he
talked to us about justice and the concept of
crime in other cultures.
We also visited the American Center, a
branch of the American Embassy, and met
with the Director who gave us some
perspectives on well-known American
movies, including one of our teams' choices:
Pulp Fiction.
We believe that "crime movies" can reveal
the deeper issues that puzzle, disturb and
illuminate problems in even the most
democratic of societies.
Pulp Fiction
is built from short stories which collide Pulp Fiction
together in a logical order- our poster is made up of
smaller pictures (kind of a metaphor for the stories
) -- which are connected to the movie.
is seemingly a fun action movie, you Pulp Fiction
can understand the deeper meaning only after a
while, you need to "take a step back" to see the
is a very Pulp Fictionwhole picture. In addition,
famous movie; it is almost impossible to say
something that wasn’t already said about it. There
are so many posters already done but our poster
kind of puts all the posters together (or at least
many of them)-- and in this way, we're making
something new.
Pulp Fiction Team: Dana Epshtein, Jonathan
Kimelfeld, Neomi Goldberg
The A Team Our movie, The A Team, is basically about an
innocent military unit that was sent to jail after
being accused of doing something they hadn't
done; to show that idea we thought that we should
do a poster that is an empty prison cell. It's in order
to get the viewer's attention; usually posters have
many things on them that shows some parts of the
movie (or the movie's idea), we wanted the viewer
to get curious about this poster because you don't
really get a clear idea of what you see in the
poster. It makes you think of a prison break but you
can't be too sure so you
need to check it out and that is what we wanted to
achieve.
A Team : Eddie Cohen, Yuval Lavie, Roy Beyth
Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope
Most Star Wars posters feature the main hero
characters (Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Han Solo
and Obi-Wan Kenobi) in a brave pose, holding their
weapons and ready for battle. Our poster,
however, shows a different side of the characters:
the side that represents the fear and uncertainty
that the heroes feel throughout the movie. In our
poster, Obi-Wan looks back with a nervous
expression and the other three heroes are looking
forward, anxious. Also, our poster features the
Empire in all its black majesty: the Death Star
looming behind Obi-Wan, the Star Destroyers
above, the small but numerous TIE Fighters and the
Lord of Evil, Darth Vader.
As for the slogan: "Forced By Law – Controlled By
Fear – Driven By Justice", the words describe the
Rebels' motivation: the Empire creates the law, but
enforces it using violence and fear. Thus, the
Rebels are driven to revolt against the Empire to
spread justice.
The "Star Wars" Team: Aviv Kaplan, Matan
Oppenheimer, Arie Nuehauser, Omri Gatt
Skyfall
Through the poster, we were trying to transmit to the
viewer our main themes that we saw in the movie:
-There is no pure good or evil: this theme is shown by
the blur effect used on the "alleged hero" making him
more complicated and gray rather than pure white.
Also, the picture of Westminster in the background,
which is usually presented as a symbol of glory, is
shown in the poster as red-black, implying a hell-like
place.
The appearance of James Bond, in his gray dead-like
profile also connects to the sentence "they always come
back to you" as in the movie, James Bond supposedly
comes back from the dead.
Skyfall Team: Carmel Lahad, Maya Vaknin and Ben
Gofrit
Step Up Revolution
For those of you who have seen Step Up
Revolution,
you probably know that it isn't filled with crime
and blood. Since our class theme is crime, we
saw the movie in a different way, as
demonstrating the thin line between crime and
expressing an opinion.
Through the poster we showed the crime
element in the movie by using the black
background and the "violent" splashes of white
paint. Since the movie also has some fun and
dancing in it, we added the shape of the
dancing guy and the pine tree.
Step Up Team: Michal and Gili
Leon: The Professional
Our poster of the movie Leon: The
Professional includes two shots from
the movie. The one above symbolizes
the revenge that brought Leon and
Matilda together, and the other one
shows the relationship between them –
Matilda is Leon's partner but still a child.
Our slogan – "Revenge never seemed so
pure" – reflects the contradiction
between the pure child Matilda is, and
the revenge that motivates her. The
way the movie's name is written is very
simple and restrained, just like the
impression the viewer gets of Leon's
character.
Leon Team:
Neta Licht and Revital Gornstein
Tower Heist
In our poster we decided to put the
building at a certain angle that makes us
look at it from the bottom in order to show
our sympathy and the emotional
connection to the middle class.
Our movie concentrates on the serious conflict
between two economic classes in the US
society. In this fight we take the side of the
middle-class people because the wealthy
people, especially Mr. Shaw, are corrupt and
will do anything for money, while at the other
end, stands Josh Kovacs - the one who faces the
corruption and represents the good in the
society.
At the bottom of the poster, we placed the
staff in a row, with Josh Kovacs in the
middle, since he's the one who leads the
fight against Shaw.
Tower Heist Team: Nadav, Talila and
Omri Doron
Faster
In our poster, you can see mostly the
element of guns and bullets.
The purpose of the bullet shown in the title is
to make the movie attractive to people who
love action movies and we want people to be
interested in the movie through the poster.
Another important object in the poster is the
gun that is pointed at the viewer. The
purpose is to convey to the viewer the feeling
of being the victim, before the shooting -- to
understand that being good will lead you to a
different place, far from the gun, far from
being a victim of revenge, of justifiable crime.
The lightning is partially dark because it
symbolizes the dark road of revenge, even
when used to serve justice. In the end of the
dark road, after revenge is over, there's light-
the new road promising a better life. Faster Team: Ely, Dor, Arad and Yochanan
Anav’s Daled 2 Class –
Our class’s theme was time and the
way time is presented in films. We
discussed time in class – the role time
plays in movies and the way it
functions in the development of the
plot, theme and characters. We
started off our exploration of time by
first reading fairy tale stories -
Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty – and
studying the way time was either
negatively or positively portrayed in
those stories as well as its more
‘magical’ elements.
We also watched the movie In Time
and learned how this abstract concept
was given a more concrete
foundation in the movie- time in the
value of money and the minutes left
in life. We also discovered the many
idioms of time that exist in the
English language – it’s a waste of
time, the time of your life, waiting a
lifetime, time is money, time flies, etc.
The movies that we chose to do our
projects on mainly dealt with time
travel, either into the past or future.
These movies generally showed time
being manipulated for good
intentions, where characters use time
to either fix their present or future to
become better, happier people or
characters that use time travel in an
attempt to better society or reverse a
tragedy.
By studying the concept of time in
movies, we explored how much
‘control’ human beings actually have
on time and the importance of using
our time wisely.
The poster represents life in a
future state, where everything
seems to be dark and shady. The
dark colors represent the darkness
and the mechanical life style of the
future population.
In addition, the sentence “what
would you do?” expresses the
main theme of the film, which is
determinism.
- Dana and Michal
In the poster there is a big
explosion behind the main actor,
Jake Gyllenhaal. The explosion
refers to the terror attacks and the
train being blown to pieces, which
is a memory that Jake repeatedly
experiences throughout the film.
Jake is running away from the
bomb in the poster and this
represents the eight minutes he
has each time he returns to this
memory.
-Dekel, Yonatan, and Netta
Our poster shows the main
character of our movie, James
in a state of suffering, and
confusion.
In the foreground, there is a
symbol of the 12 monkey’s
army.
The title: “When is my reality?”
refers to James Cole’s situation.
He doesn’t know which time
zone is his reality. He doesn’t
know what is real and what
isn’t.
- Daniel Obuhovsky,
Or Franco, Yuval Magira
The poster includes the
hourglass and the Patronus
that Harry uses to save his
own life. Buckbeak, the
hippogriff – half horse and
half eagle – is presented in
the backround. The red color
expresses the continuous
fear of the evil magician
Voldemort.
- Yael, Or and Ronza
The background of our poster is the time machine that is used in the movie Timecop. It is shown numerous times, and is the only way to travel in time in the movie.
Our poster presents the starring actor in the movie, Jean Claude Van-Damme, whose acting gained the movie its recognition.
- Eran, Yuval and Adar
In the poster, we have the main character Lewis as the young boy and his older self, standing back to back. The slogan is “Seeking the Past in the Future,” and it appears in the middle of the two figures. One of the main themes of the movie is the search for identity and belonging – this is what Lewis tries to do by traveling to the future and gaining a sense of his past.
-Yuval Aharoni and Erez Solomon
-
In our poster, we have the main
character, Gil, looking at Paris. He
sees 'reflections' of his past,
present and future. On one hand,
he sees his current reality with his
current fiancé and a future love
that he meets when he travels
into the past – the 1920s of Paris.
Gil must decide if the past is
preferable than the present both
in regard to love and to his work.
Gil is somewhere in the middle,
unsure of what time period he
should choose to live in, what he
wants to do and who he wants to
love.
- Noa Levy, Avital
Yerushalmi, Noa Golan
At the top of the poster, you can see the three main characters as the ‘three monkeys.’ There is another random guy on the side who also travels back in time with them. The other picture shows the guys when they were back I high school.
-Idan Liberman, Arik Cohen Etgar, and Tamir Erlich
From the Written Word to the Silver Screen: English
Literature in Film
This year our 10th
grade English studies began
with an in-depth study of the poetry in the film
"Dead Poets Society" (1989). Through the film
and its poetry our class explored the meaning
and power of the written word. In keeping with
this theme, our class decided to design our
cinema projects on the connection between
literature and film. Our class chose a wide
variety of films subjects relating to English
literature and writing: Shakespearian parodies,
biographical films about famous writers dealing
with their personal and professional struggles, a
true life story of an English teacher who instills
love of writing in her students and a writer in
search of an unattainable romanticized vision of
the past. Our films are different and varied;
however, each film explores the strength and
stamina of the human spirit and the powerful
role which words play in our lives.
Lisa Lidor
Daled 1 English Teacher
The theme of our film is “Imagination helps us to
overcome different problems and difficulties in life”. The
film's main character, J.M. Barrie, the writer of Peter
Pan, stands in the foreground of the poster in front of an
everyday London background. He appears to be deep in
thought and while he is thinking, the boring city
transforms into a bright and colorful wonderland! - Iris
Mazel, Shani Cheskis, Vita Polonski
The dominant colors in our poster are black and white. These
colors symbolize the contrast between the black and white
people in the movie. The sailing hands represent the closure
between the different groups, and the fact that they don't
touch each other conveys the separation between them. The
hand shake takes place above a piece of paper which
symbolizes that the groups will connect to each other by
writing their experiences in their diary. - Itay Alhanty, Guy
Hadad and Shai Pollak
The background of our poster is
taken from a scene in the film
when Viola dreams that she is
playing soccer in a dress. This
scene best conveys the theme of
our film: In order to make your
dream or wish come true, you need
others to accept you and you first
need to accept yourself, because to
accomplish your desires you need
to take risks. - Ori Kobo, Tali
Prilutski, Neta Cohen and Roi
Mach
In the poster, you see the Eifel Tower, the famous symbol
of Paris. The background colors are muted shades of brown
and gold that represent the historical past. We chose this
background intentionally to convey the message of the
movie. Gil, the main character, is seen wearing his usual t-
shirt that signifies the difference between his life in the
present and Paris in the past. Gil is looking to the horizon
with longing because of his strong connection with Paris.
The clock in the background shows midnight. - Yael
Yanuka, Hila Megged, Nitzan Oz
The water in the background of the poster represents the river
in which Virginia Woolf drowned herself, but also the
metaphorical river of time and life. The color of characters'
pictures symbolizes the depressive atmosphere of the film. The
pictures show the connection between the three main
characters in Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs. Dalloway." The
quote is at the top of the poster is taken from Virginia's suicide
letter to her husband, and it shows the main themes of the
movie. The dark red color of the quote symbolizes blood. -
Daria Lioubashevsky, Liya Elbashan, Maya Govrin Perelmuter
and Dariya Prilutskiy
- Ido Kneller, Tom Marro, Elad Shiftan
Debora’s Class
History in 3D
Movies That Changed History
Naomi's Daled Class
Blind Side is a film of help and hope.
The message is that all of us must notice when someone is in need, decide to do something
to help and then get involved. The message shows how one human being can affect, not only
the life of that person, but also their own life, their family’s lives and their community.
One person can make a difference.
Blind Side Team: Maor Atias, Tal Avrahmi, Michal Hirschberg, Ravit
Shabtai and Mor Yechezkeli