A (mostly) visual analysis

Each student will analyze the visual humor in a short film by Buster Keaton.

1. You will be assigned a short
   • View list of Keaton shorts here.
2. Learn basic Wikipedia editing and create a Wikipedia-style article for your short on Screenpedia. (The best articles will be uploaded to Wikipedia.)
3. Learn how to make screenshots (probably with VLC Media Player) and capture at least one from every shot in the short.
   • Submit your screenshots. Due in class Tuesday, 9/20.
   • Select a short segment (minimum 5 minutes) and identify comic moments in it.
     • Use the theories of humor we discussed to explain why they are comic.
     • Submit in print in class Tuesday, 10/4.
4. Worth 35 points.