Who have never watched a movie and asked such questions
like:
How that scene was made?
How the writer has had that idea?
How the director could surprise everyone?
Don’t you think it would be funny to answer these questions
by traveling around the cinema world?
If you answered yes, choose your favorite genre and take a
travel around it!
TASKS
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Read the introduction
Divide the class into groups
Choose a genre
Choose a song link
Try to find the name of the film that the song represents
Click in the claquette besides the song link and learn
more about it
• The final task is to develop a screen play
EVALUATION
• Creativity: be creative when developing a screenplay.
• Working in group: the student’s capacity to work in a
group.
• Right use of the English language: the right use of the
English language in the screenplay.
• Be clear: be clear when developing a screenplay.
• Search: do a good search in order to learn more about the
theme.
CHOOSE YOUR FAVORITE GENRE
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Choose a number.
Each number represents a song of a film of the
chose genre.
Go to the site that is provided, click in the number
you have choose and try to find the name of the
film by hearing the song.
After that, back to the slides, click in the claquette
besides the number you have choose and the film
plot will appear.
http://www2.uol.com.br/flashpops/jogos/flashpops.shtml
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Choose a number.
Each number represents a song of a film of
the chose genre.
Go to the site that is provided, click in the
number you have choose and try to find the
name of the film by hearing the song.
After that, back to the slides, click in the
claquette besides the number you have
choose and the film plot will appear.
http://www2.uol.com.br/flashpops/jogos/flashpops.shtml
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Choose a number.
Each number represents a song of a film of the chose
genre.
Go to the site that is provided, click in the number
you have choose and try to find the name of the film
by hearing the song.
After that, back to the slides, click in the claquette
besides the number you have choose and the film
plot will appear.
http://www2.uol.com.br/flashpops/jogos/flashpops.shtml
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Choose a number.
Each number represents a song of a film of the
chose genre.
Go to the site that is provided, click in the
number you have choose and try to find the
name of the film by hearing the song.
After that, back to the slides, click in the
claquette besides the number you have choose
and the film plot will appear.
http://www2.uol.com.br/flashpops/jogos/flashpops.shtml
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Choose a number.
Each number represents a song of a film of the
chose genre.
Go to the site that is provided, click in the
number you have choose and try to find the
name of the film by hearing the song.
After that, back to the slides, click in the
claquette besides the number you have choose
and the film plot will appear.
http://www2.uol.com.br/flashpops/jogos/flashpops.shtml
GONE WITH THE WIND
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union
Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who
arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she
has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy
warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man
there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know
he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.
If you want to lear more about this film, visit these sites:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind
TITANIC
84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story
to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell
and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on
a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upperclass passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon
Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend
Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains
the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last
voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.
If you want to lear more about this film, visit these sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_(1997_film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
GHOST
Sam and Molly are a very happy couple and deeply in love. Walking back to
their new apartment after a night out at the theatre, they encounter a thief in a
dark alley, and Sam is murdered. He finds himself trapped as a ghost and
realizes that his death was no accident. He must warn Molly about the danger
that she is in. But as a ghost he can not be seen or heard by the living, and so
he tries to communicate with Molly through Ode Mae Brown, a psychic who
didn't even realize that her powers were real.
If you want to lear more about this film, visit these sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(1990_film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099653/
SINGING IN THE RAIN
In 1927, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a famous on-screen romantic
pair. Lina, however, mistakes the on-screen romance for real love. Don has
worked hard to get where he is today, with his former partner Cosmo. When
Don and Lina's latest film is transformed into a musical, Don has the perfect
voice for the songs. But Lina - well, even with the best efforts of a diction
coach, they still decide to dub over her voice. Kathy Selden is brought in, an
aspiring actress, and while she is working on the movie, Don falls in love with
her. Will Kathy continue to "aspire", or will she get the break she deserves ?
If you want to lear more about this film, visit these sites:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045152/
http://mubi.com/films/singing-in-the-rain
GREASE
A musical about teens in love in the 50's! It's California, 1959 and greaser
Danny Zuko and Australian Sandy Olsson are in love. They spend time at the
beach, but when they go back to school, what either of them don't know is that
they both now attend Rydell High. Danny's the leader of the T-Birds, a group
of black-jacket greasers while Sandy hangs with the Pink Ladies, a group of
pink-wearing girls led by Rizzo. When they clash at Rydell's first pep rally,
Danny isn't the same Danny at the beach. They try to be like each other so
they can be together.
If you want to lear more about this film, visit these sites:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077631/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077631/fullcredits
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
After he is framed for the death of several colleagues and falsely branded a traitor, a secret
agent embarks on a daring scheme to clear his name in this spy adventure. Though it drew its
name from the familiar television series, director Brian DePalma's big-budget adaptation shares
little more with the original show than the occasional self-destructing message and the name of
team leader Jim Phelps (Jon Voight). The film focuses not on Phelps but his protégé, Ethan
Hunt (a reserved Tom Cruise), who becomes a fugitive after taking the blame for a botched
operation. He responds by banding together with a group of fellow renegades, and he is soon
maneuvering his way through a twisted series of double crosses that mainly serve as excuses for
spectacular high-tech action sequences. Much of the activity revolves around a missing
computer disk, with the film's most famous scene depicting Hunt's delicate efforts to retrieve
the disk from a secure, well-alarmed room in CIA headquarters.
If you want to lear more about this film, visit these sites:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mission_impossible/
http://www.adorocinema.com/filmes/filme-15308/
INDIANA JONES
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere
in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an over-sized rolling
boulder) to fetch a solid-gold idol. He loses this artifact to his chief rival, a French archeologist named
Belloq (Paul Freeman), who then prepares to kill our hero. In the first of many serial-like escapes,
Indy eludes Belloq by hopping into a convenient plane. So, then: is Indiana Jones afraid of anything?
Yes, snakes. The next time we see Jones, he's a soft-spoken, bespectacled professor. He is then
summoned from his ivy-covered environs by Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott) to find the long-lost
Ark of the Covenant. The Nazis, it seems, are already searching for the Ark, which the mysticalminded Hitler hopes to use to make his stormtroopers invincible. But to find the Ark, Indy must first
secure a medallion kept under the protection of Indy's old friend Abner Ravenwood, whose
daughter, Marion (Karen Allen), evidently has a "history" with Jones.
If you want to lear more about this film, visit these sites:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/raiders_of_the_lost_ark/
http://www.adorocinema.com/filmes/filme-121/
SWAT
Clark Johnson's big-screen adaptation of the 1970s television series S.W.A.T. stars Colin
Farrell as Jim Street, a young special weapons and tactics team member who, in the film's
opening sequence, is demoted after his hothead partner Jeremy Renner shoots a hostage while
trying to kill her captor. In need of good press, the higher-ups call in SWAT expert Hondo
Harrelson (Samuel L. Jackson) to put together an elite team that can bring some luster back to
the badge. He chooses Street, veteran T.J. (Josh Charles), and tough single mother Chris
Sanchez (Michelle Rodriguez). The new team survives a series of tests before hitting the streets.
Their first big assignment involves transporting an international criminal (Olivier Martinez) to
federal authorities. The criminal had offered a hundred million dollars to anyone who can bust
him out.
If you want to lear more about this film, visit these sites:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/swat/
http://www.adorocinema.com/filmes/filme-41239/
GHOSTBUSTERS
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based "paranormal
investigators". When their government grants run out, the former three go into business as The Ghostbusters, later
hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is spectacularly successful, ridding The Big
Apple of dozens of ghoulies, ghosties and long-legged beasties. Tight-lipped bureaucrat William Atherton regards
the Ghostbusters as a bunch of charlatans, but is forced to eat his words when New York is besieged by an army of
unfriendly spirits, conjured up by a long-dead Babylonian demon and "channelled" through beautiful cellist
Sigourney Weaver and nerdish Rick Moranis. The climax is a glorious sendup of every Godzilla movie ever madeand we daresay it cost more than a year's worth of Japanese monster flicks combined. Who'd ever dream that the
chubby, cheery Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man would turn out to be the most malevolent threat ever faced by New
York City? When the script for Ghostbusters was forged by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, John Belushi was
slated to play the Bill Murray role; Belushi's death in 1982 not only necessitated the hiring of Murray, but also an
extensive rewrite. The most expensive comedy made up to 1984, Ghostbusters made money hand over fist,
spawning not only a 1989 sequel but also two animated TV series (one of them partially based on an earlier liveaction TV weekly, titled The Ghost Busters.
If you want to lear more about this film, visit these sites:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ghostbusters/
http://www.adorocinema.com/filmes/filme-437/
BEVERLY HILLS COP
What's that wisecracking young black guy (Eddie Murphy) in that beat-up
Chevy Nova doing in lily-white Beverly Hills? He's Axel Foley, a Detroit
detective who's been sent on involuntary vacation because he refuses to drop
his intention of avenging his friend's murder. Warned by Beverly Hills police
chief Ronny Cox to stay out of trouble, Foley nonetheless dogs the trail of
above-the-law Steven Berkoff, the British crime czar who was responsible for
the murder of Foley's friend. With the help of sympathetic local cops Judge
Reinhold and John Ashton and lady friend Lisa Eilbacher, Foley attempts to
corner Berkoff in his mansion, which leads to a wild slapsticky shootout.
If you want to lear more about this film, visit these sites:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/beverly_hills_cop/
http://www.adorocinema.com/filmes/filme-39139/
Public safety takes a turn for the worse in this hit comedy, which spawned a longrunning franchise. As a crime wave sweeps through a major city, the mayor decides
that part of the problem may stem from overly restrictive qualifications for police
officers, so she opens the door of the city's Police Academy to anyone who wants to
join. Soon, the new class is overrun with misfits and losers, including Carey Mahoney
(Steve Guttenberg), who is given the choice of joining the force or going to jail; Karen
Thompson (Kim Cattrall), a pretty cadet whom Mahoney has his eye on; Moses
Hightower (Bubba Smith), a mountain of a man who likes to tend flowers; and
Larvell Jones (Michael Winslow), who has an uncanny ability to imitate the sound of
practically anything. Constantly befuddled Commandant Lassard (George Gaynes)
and his lackey, Lt. Harris (G.W. Bailey), are none too thrilled with their new charges,
but as they try to wash their hands of the cadets, Mahoney and his classmates become
all the more determined to make good. The surprising success of Police Academy
spawned six sequels and two TV series.
If you want to lear more about this film, visit these sites:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/police_academy/
http://www.adorocinema.com/filmes/filme-43574/
PSYCHO
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover
Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in
alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take
the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after
the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The
motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother. For
Marion Crane, it's been quite an eventful day. The day before, she had stolen $40,000 from her employer's
client, packed her bags and driven all day on her way to join her paramour several hundred miles away.
Now, she is taking a relaxing hot shower after her long day's journey. The remoteness of the motel suit her
purposes perfectly. The only sounds heard are the chirping of the crickets, the splashing of the water, and
her humming contentedly as the hot needles of water caress her aching shoulders.
If you want to lear more about this film, visit these sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_(film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
HALLOWEEN (1978)
The year is 1963, the night: Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln.
only to discover that 15 year old Judith Myers has been stabbed to death, by
her 6 year-old brother, Michael. After being institutionalized for 15 years,
Myers breaks out on the night before Halloween. No one knows, nor wants to
find out, what will happen on October 31st 1978 besides Myers' psychiatrist,
Dr. Loomis. He knows Michael is coming back to Haddonfield, but by the
time the town realizes it, it'll be too late for many people.
If you want to lear more about this film, visit these sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(franchise)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077651/
GREMLINS
When Billy Peltzer is given a small creature called a Mogwai by his father, he
is unaware of the carnage he is about to encounter. There is a huge
responsibility in looking after Gizmo as there are certain rules which must be
followed. The Mogwai must be kept away from bright light, never made wet
and never, ever be fed after midnight. When an accident occurs involving
Gizmo and water, the next evolution stage of the Mogwai appears, and it isn't
nice at all.
If you want to lear more about this film, visit these sites:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087363/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlins
FINAL TASK
After have studied about the movie and the genre you
chose, it is time to work.
Now you have all the knowledge necessary to
develop a good screenplay.
So now, make a good one.
Good luck and let’s work!
CONCLUSION
After the preparation of this work, we hope you have become
passionate for the cinema world.
As you can see, producing a screenplay can be a funny and
pleasurable activity.
If you want to know more about the cinema world visit the sites
that come.
It was enjoyable to work with you
CLICK HERE TO VISITE MORE SITES
http://www.culturamix.com/cultura/a-evolucao-do-cinema
http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/560/the-technological-evolution-of-filmmaking-andits-relation-to-quality-in-cinema
http://www.articlesbase.com/movies-articles/the-evolution-ofcinema-entertainment-1017502.htm
http://www.ipv.pt/forumedia/5/15.htm
http://web.li.gatech.edu/~rdrury/700/write/sum_07/romance_07/History_romanti
c_movies.htm -
http://www.spectrumgothic.com.br/gothic/cinema/filmes_terror.htm
http://news.wfu.edu/2010/10/28/horror-movie-history/
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Com%C3%A9dia_cinematogr%C3%A1fica
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-history-of-comedy-movies
http://www.musicals101.com/1927-30film2.htm
CREDITS
This web quest was made by Jonathan Fragoso, Celenita
Sirqueira, Denise Soares and Ana Karoline Ribas on 13th
January, 2013.
This web quest was made in order to be used for advanced
English course students.
It was created following the orientation of professor
Janaina Cardoso during the class “ The use of technology
to teach foreign languages” at UERJ.