difficult to flesh all of this out. some quick impressionistic thoughts .. 

1) No pun intended, but something is out of sequence --- Ms./Mr. "Faculty" 
should consult first with you, then operationalize it with the TA. I think that 
is a lot to lay on a TA from the get go. 

2) having said above, this is a great opportunity for TA to get to know film, 
and if s/he is planning to teach, a task like this will pay off over time. 

3) great opportunity for curriculum development consultation among Mr./Ms. 
Faculty, librarian and TA. 

4) on the face of it, making a "mix tape" for each type of sequence is of great 
benefit, and it seems to me that it falls into fair use concept. 


4a) BUT, permit me a bit of caution -- is it a problem to go into mass 
duplication mode? 

5) perhaps Mr./Ms. Faculty should set up a series with some vendor (since we've 
been mentioning "Found Footage" and "The Story of Film" lately) and publish 
that idea. I'd pay for that. 

6) Just for fun ... because it is ... What chase scenes should we choose ... ? 
French Connection 
Bullitt 
Bourne Identity/Supremecy (Paris, Moscow?) 
T h e Seven-Ups 



----- Original Message -----

From: "Lorraine Wochna" <[email protected]> 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:16:24 PM 
Subject: [Videolib] Special School of Film Project - gathering clips 



Hello all, 

Is there anything wrong with this picture? Or can the student gather clips, 
make a DVD, just to be used in our School of Film? 
Just making sure there is nothing questionable in this request. 

Thanks for everyone’s time. 

Lorraine 
Ohio U 




Hi Loraine, 



I am the TA assistant this semester and I am helping faculty with a special 
project for the School of Film. I am emailing you in the hopes that you can 
help me. My assignment is to collect somewhere around 100 clips from different 
movies to illustrate different concepts of filmmaking such as "opening 
sequences," "dialogue sequences," "chase sequences" etc. Faculty has given me 
an enormous list of films which he needs me to obtain DVD copies of. I will 
then chose the specific sequences from each DVD and burn them onto separate 
DVDs which will be used solely for the purposes of the School of Film to teach 
future filmmakers. The end result will be 10 separate DVDs which each have 
roughly 10 sample clips for each type of sequence. 



I realize that to accomplish this project I will need some help. First, I need 
to be able to check out a whole bunch of DVDs at one time. Secondly, I am sure 
that some of the films I am looking for will not be available at the library or 
will not be on DVD and I am hoping that you will be able to order them for me 
somehow. I am wondering if perhaps I should meet with you to go over all of 
this in person? Also, faculty is willing to meet with us if it is necessary to 
obtain permission to burn the copies of the clips. 



Please let me know what I need to do to accomplish this project in terms of 
getting permission to check out all the DVDs and anything else I may not have 
thought of. 



Thank you so much for your time, 


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