Reminiscing

Lol...I just came across this while cleaning out my inbox. Its an assignment I wrote a couple of years ago for a class on Film studies. I'll be damned but I seriously cannot make shit out
from this stuff!! What is FS, CU and those numbers..?? movie frames?? pan in, pan out..???beats me! How I wish I knew it. Serves me right for drawing tony montana on the class room desk and not paying attention.Given my drab course right now, I suddenly find film studies so interesting. I remember I took two classes in undergrad on Film. One was by bastard boy P. Close. The class was beautifully called "images and reality of the asia pacific". We were shown an art film from different countries every week and had to write an analysis and post in on the Webct forum. I hardly went for classes although some films like 'once were warriors' abt Maori culture was really nice. King and I was apparently shown in class once. I slept in that morning and asked a friend abt the film shown so I could post the review and get my attendence. The minute she said king and I, I was like right..thanks, bye and got down to writing. Little did I know it was the old black n white version and I had just posted my review..full of raves for chou yon fat and jodie foster's excellent acting from the new version!! lol. I got a C in that course. Cant help smiling thinking of those days.

Film: Man of Aran
: Robert Flaherty
Summary of events: Continuity, Major scenes and their themes from the shot list.

Continuity
Major scene
Theme
１．Introduction to farming in Aran
２．Farming Procedures
３．Subtitle-seaweed
4. Subtitle -soil
5. Fixing boat
6. Boy fishing
7. Boy spots something in water
8. Basking shark Fishing
9. subtitle on bask fishing
10. women waiting and looking out in anticipation
11. Subtitle
12. Bringing home the catch.
13. Woman and children wait in anticipation
14. Shark on the shore
15. Preparing pot for collecting shark liver oil.
16.Subtitle-Cauldron
17. Subtitle- schools of shark…
18. Out for fishing again
19. Waiting in anticipation on the land
20. Wind and Foaming Sea.
21. Return of boat

*Landscape FS
*Man with Axe
* Man hitting rocks
*Loading seaweeds on horses.
* Family leading horse with seaweed to the shore.
* Woman and boy looking for soil in crevices of rocks 85-106
*upturned boat
* enter man with pot
*fixing hole in boat 108-112
* Ariel view of water and cliff
* Boy takes out crab and prepares bait. 119-234
*Spots a basking shark on the water. CU 236-256
* A harpooned shark and men in boat.
* Struggle with shark
* loosing shark from harpoon.
* Men at sea
* Spot shark
*struggle with catch
* Woman standing and looking out to the sea with a basket of seaweeds.
* men pulling shark
* woman looking out of window
* Boy takes potatoes
* Woman knitting and looking out the window.
*lamp burning
* Villagers crowding in on the shoreline to see the catch.
*Rolling pot/cauldron
* light fire for the cauldron
* Skinning and dissecting shark.
* A school of sharks…shark fins above the water surface.
* Men go to sea.
* Boy follows
*denial for the boy
*show of disappointment
* burning lamp CU
*sleeping boy
* lamp blows out
* boy awakes with gust of wind through window
*spray of mists and water on land
*woman and boy looking out for the boat on sea* boat appears.
*Struggle of men in boat the stormy weather.
* Finally makes it, wary yet triumphant back to the shore.

Farming in barren conditions-hard work and labor.
An important event in the lives of the people of Aran.
The source of their livelihood and basic necessities like oil for burning lamp from shark liver, etc.
Rarity of catches while fishing for basking sharks.The way of life for the people of Aran, as if like in a cursed land, people have to work very hard in extreme conditions to for survival.

"???????????????" How can I not remember the slightest detail of this? Its like it almost never happened.