For this assignment you will isolate a film that speaks to you as an individual. You will write a review about the said medium while writing
Army of the Dead movie review (has to look like reading an article online.)
MOVIE ASSIGNMENT
OVERVIEW
For this assignment you will isolate a film that speaks to you as an individual. You will write a review about the said medium while writing to and for a particular audience. The narrative should bring up these ideas you are going to tackle as opposed to you placing those ideas onto the work. The topics can range from gays represented in films, to civil rights in documentaries, to ethics of war in books, to genocide in books.
With storytelling, it’s important to think about not only the story itself (content: plot, setting, character) but also about how the story is being told and who is actually telling it. As with most things in life, asking who, what, when, where, why, and how will take you deep and wide. Ultimately, you can only make sense of the story if you examine the perspective from which it’s being told. But, as with life in general, we are easily swept away by the plot and characters and seldom ponder the narrator’s point of view. In film, many times the viewer will literally look through a particular character’s eyes, forging an instantaneous but potent psychological affinity with that particular character.
If art is a creative expression that intentionally emotes a response from the viewer, then many films are works of art. Film is a unique artform. Probably the most distinctive quality about film as an artform is the fact that it is, by its very nature, a creative collaboration whose creators are its screenwriters and composers, actors and cinematographers, directors and producers, make-up artists and other technicians…The list goes on and on, as you well know if you’ve ever sat through the entire list of credits at the end of a film! In the end, however, what does it tell us about a particular film to say that it is a Hitchcock or Tarantino film as opposed to a Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt box-office-blockbuster?
The Assignment:
• Be Clear and Take a Stance in the Beginning about the Movie in your Review
• Try to make it Interesting by knowing the Expectation of your Target Readers
• Do not end the Gist of the Movie in your Review
• Support your Statements with Examples
• Give a Hint to the Readers Whether Movie is worth Watching or Not
• Talk about the Theatre Techniques Used in Movie
NOTES
Contemplate these questions:
What is the generating circumstance leading into the story?
What is the plot structure–what parts of the story comprise beginning, middle, end?
How does films/shows/books reflect and inform culture?
How do films/shows/book translate stories from page to screen/imagination?
How do filmmakers/writers deal with the rhythm and passage of time within the narrative flow of the story?
What qualities does film have that literature does not and vice versa?
What is the mythic quality of film/show/book?
What is it about particular films/shows/books that qualify them to be considered works of art?
ESSAY
· Your essay should be a critique that is approximately 1-2 pages: typewritten, double-spaced with one-inch margins, 12 point Times New Roman.
· Your plot summary should only be no more than two paragraphs. But only about half of the medium.
· The lion’s share of your discussion should focus on the scene you select as the keystone of the film.
· This paper must contain the following elements:
1) Introduction: overview of what the film/TV/book is about and brief plot summary;
2) Identify what you consider to be the most important scene in the film and explain why;
3) Describe, analyze, and interpret the composition and design of the key scene using the film codes. Check Blackboard
4) Conclusion: Briefly discuss what you consider art to be and then evaluate this film/show/book as a work of art. and evaluation/judgment. Tie it all together.
· Be sure your title is clever as well as meaningful.
Revision/Edits: Seeing again with new eyes.
1) No writing is complete until it has undergone revision! It’s a good idea to give your paper a couple days’ rest between your final draft and your revision.
2) When you think you’ve done your best, read your paper aloud and see if it really says what you mean to say. Wherever you get tongue-tied, stammer, or stumble over the words, mark the spot and work it over in your revision.
3) Every major point you make needs to be illustrated with specific examples to show how what you say is true. Whatever you assert, you must demonstrate. (Remember that too many details make writing seem boring, and too few details make it confusing &/or unconvincing.)
4) Organization and interpretive analysis are key. Be analytical and organized, brief yet eloquent.
5) Always spellcheck before you print.
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