Chapters 1-3

Watch this clip called Film Editing Basics and Theory  and then use your list of film terminology to answer the questions below on the clips from 400 Blows and Basic Instinct, the first two films of The Film Club.

 Here is the trailer and the final scene of François Truffaut's 1959 film 'The 400 Blows' (Les quatre cents coups). According to Gilmour, Truffaut was "a high-school dropout, a draft dodger, and a small time thief, but he adored movies and spent his childhood sneaking into the cinema houses that were all over post-war Paris in those days."

Why did Gilmour choose this as the first film he showed his son? Do you think this was a good choice? How would you interpret the boy's expression at the end of the film?





Gilmour says that he chose "Basic Instinct" for dessert. Watch this clip and find at least five techniques that were used in this film that make it so compelling. Use what you learned from the first clip on film editing and refer to your list of film terminology in your response.

Finally, here is the remastered trailer of "A Hard Day's Night"


And here is the scene David Gilmour liked so much when The Beatles burst out of the door singing Can't Buy Me Love.  David and Jesse responded very differently to this film. After watching these clips, how would you account for such different opinions?




If you need to see more to answer this question, here are the first 10 minutes of the film. Watch as much as you need to in order to answer the question: