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

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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