• Setting
  - If you were the director of the film what kind of setting would you choose for
    ... ?
  - Did the director choose the appropriate setting for the film?
  

• Casting
  - What kind of actor/actress would you choose for NN? (Try to find photos or
    magazine pictures which show your
    actor/actress.)
  - What patterns of behaviour should they show?
  - What clothes should they wear?
  - Did the director choose the appropriate actor(s)/ actress(es)?
  - Were new characters introduced? Why?
  

• Sound track
  - Would you use background music?
  - When? Why? What kind of?
  - Would you use voice-over/dialogue?
  - Would you use any sound effects?
  - How does the music in segment/scene ... reflect the relationship between
    A and B/the two main characters?
  - Is the use of image and sound synchronic/ asynchronic?
  

• Field sizes
  - Which field sizes would you use in scene/seg-ment... ? Why?
  - Identify the field sizes used in scene/segment ... and comment on their
    significance.
  

• Camera movements
  - Study scene/segment ... with respect to camera movement and try to
    identify examples of pan, tilt, tracking shot
    and zoom.
  - What might have induced the filmmaker to choose these camera
    movements for the situations in which they occur?

• Comparison of a piece of literature (short story/ novel/play) with a film

- How does the film (the text) begin?
- How does the film (the text) end?

- From whose point of view is the film (the text) told?

- In which way are the thoughts of individual characters expressed in the film
  (the story)?

- Comparing the film and the short story (novel/play) that it is based on did/could
  you notice any
            expansions
            omissions
            deletions
            simplifications
            shifts of emphasis?

- Why was the scene
            added?
            expanded?
            omitted?
            simplified?

- Does the film make any quantitative and/or qualitative changes?
- Are passages of dialogue added? Why?
- Is this film a faithful transposition of the short story (novel/play)?
- What is a faithful transposition?
- Which do you like better, the film or the text that it is based on? Why?