Cinemaspeaking topic
French Impressionist cinema of the 1920s: let's talk about the triple-screen Polyvision and the subjective camera experiments of Abel Gance's Napoléon.
— French Impressionism / Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927)
practice with this topic
Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.
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