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** INDIVIDUAL INDEPENDENT STUDY PLAN ** **Proposed IS Title**     **Summary of IS:**     **The 4 Key Films I will focus on are:** **Summary of each film and Explanation of how each film will support my thesis:** All of these four films above introduced some outbreaks of disasters influencing peoples' life. Their main topics are that we should learn to save our environment. 2012 is basically about the Maryans' prediction of the earth that it will be destroyed because of abnormal activities of Sun. In the film, each countries' government combined to together to create an ark to escape from such disaster. "Japan SInks" is about because of the country's crust eruption, the whole country gets sunken within 1 year. The film main character and his friend goes to the end of sea in order to save Japan. "The Day After Tomorrow" is about the abnormal change of climate due to greenhouse effect. According to the predictions of scientists, the earth will face new glacier century. People form a union in order to escape from the disaster. "Aftershocks" was edited according to a novel. It talks about an earthquake happened in 1978, a parent was given chance only to save one of her children and the fate of her child. 2012 and Day after tomorrow are two representative films in Hollywood. Comparing to Japan Sinks and Aftershocks, 2012 and Day after tomorrow had much spectacular scenes which described the disaster of earthquake more effective.At the same time, Japan Sinks and Aftershocks described more about the emotions of human in the face of the disasters.These films were produced by different director, different countries and different years. I hope I can form my own understanding of the disaster films through the analysis. My documentary can be separated into 3 parts. The first part is the common theme and technology used in the disaster films. The second part is the different point in the disaster films from different countries and years, especially the difference between Asian films and Hollywood movies. And in the third part, I want to give my image and expectancy about future of the disaster films. In my documentary's visual part, I'm going to talk about the different filmic techniques which were used by the directors to describe the disasters. In the audio part, I'm going to write about the background music and language spoken by the characters to reflect their emotions and feelings when they were facing disasters. **Further 8 films for additional study and evidence:**
 * 1) 2012 [USA-2009]
 * 2) The Day After Tomorrow [USA-2003]
 * 3) Japan Sink [Japan-2006]
 * 4) Aftershocks [China-2010]
 * 1) Independence Day (1996)
 * 2) Deep Impact
 * 3) Twister
 * 4) Poseidon
 * 5) Titanic
 * 6) Los Angeles big earthquake
 * 7) Haeundae

**The 12 Key Sources I will use for research are [academic websites/journals/books]:**
 * 1) http://www.mtime.com/comment
 * 2) http://www.mov8.com/movie/review.asp
 * 3) http://wisdomoftheworld.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/2012-a-christian-film-analysis/
 * 4) http://veclip.com/watch-NeJ6Cftc-E8/sinking-of-japan-disaster-scenes.html
 * 5) http://tiff2010.thetfs.ca/2010/09/review-aftershock/
 * 6) http://www.experiencefestival.com/the_day_after_tomorrow_film_-_science_analysis
 * 7) http://www.helium.com/knowledge/43248-movie-analysis-the-day-after-tomorrow
 * 8) http://www.scribd.com/doc/20244647/Poseidon-opening-sequence-handout-for-analysis
 * 9) http://www.hornershrine.com/scores/reviews/titanic_analysis/titanic_r1.html
 * 10) http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/id4.html
 * 11) http://www.filmcritic.com//1996/independence-day/
 * 12) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_origin=inwardhub&_urlversion=4&_method=citationSearch&_piikey=S0019103507004022&_version=1&_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fhl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26biw%3D1260%26bih%3D561%26q%3Ddeep%2Bimpact%2Banalysis%26aq%3Df%26aqi%3Dg10%26aql%3D%26oq%3D%26gs_rfai%3D&md5=fd1a2db3997d2f5f37946a72296275a1

Include here a selection of the Screen Shots or film images that you will use for your appendix. Your final IS will need a minimum of 20 images: (2012)  (2012) (The Day after tomorrow)

(The Day after tomorrow) (Japan Sinks) (Japan Sinks) (Aftershocks) (Aftershocks)