Flexible student and instructor resources
The following digital resources are included with all new copies of the text or can be purchased standalone. Accessibility is at the core of all the products we create, with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the most widely accepted voluntary international standard for accessibility, ensuring that all students can succeed in your course.
The Norton Illumine Ebook
The Norton Illumine Ebook supports all students, including those in online and hybrid classrooms, with engaging features that illustrate and reinforce core concepts in a supportive, accessible, and low-stakes environment.
New Check Your Understanding Questions cover key takeaways from each section of the chapter and build students’ confidence, right as they first encounter the material.
Embedded interactives invite students to explore elements (like lighting, sound, editing, composition, and color) and take a closer look at a specific scene as an example of a broader concept.
Embedded video tutorials demonstrate core film concepts, model analysis for students, and feature a wide variety of film examples including recent movies.
InQuizitive
InQuizitive—Norton’s adaptive, easy-to-use learning tool—builds students’ confidence with core concepts from each chapter of Looking at Movies.
Media-rich questions incorporate videos, interactives, and images and give students opportunities to apply what they've learned.
Answer-specific feedback guides students back into the text.
New questions and recent film examples reflect the updated chapter content.
“Practicing” Exercises
New exercises invite students to actively practice and think critically about key filmmaking techniques discussed in each chapter.
Authored by Dave Monahan and informed by his filmmaking and teaching experience, the exercises lend themselves to class activities, group assignments, or individual work.
Easily download and customize these Word files to fit your course, or link directly to them in your existing learning management system.
Videos, Interactives, and Animations
Looking at Movies supports serious film analysis with a robust set of video and interactive resources.
Interactives—more than double the number accompanying the previous edition—are available within every chapter of the Norton Illumine Ebook, InQuizitive, and on the Student Site.They invite students to explore cinematic elements and take a closer look at specific scenes to explore broader concepts.
Short films, ranging from 5 to 30 minutes, offer entertaining examples of the form and useful material for in-class activities or student analysis. Many are accompanied by optional audio commentary from the directors recorded specifically for Looking at Movies.
Video tutorials provide narrated sample analyses of films and live-action, shot-on-film demonstrations of core film concepts such as lighting, composition, cinematography, and editing.
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- course design consultation,
- setup in all major learning management systems, and
- ongoing guidance throughout the life of the adoption.
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