Today was a day where we primarily reviewed how to properly wright reviews for films while keeping them short and sweet for our up and coming assignments that are due in class. We began class by reviewing 2 separate film reviews one on Get Out the most resent film that we watched in class and the other on Jack and Jill. The review Get Out was a positive one that focused on setting, characters, and the genera when Jack and Jill did similar things but they both had very different views on the movie. It just goes to show how we can be short and sweet and still get our point across regardless of what our view on the movie is. By using certain word choice to directly capture our feelings and being specific with our examples and quotes were truly able to capture the film in the best setting.
After we worked on both of those reviews we went on to writing our own reviews on Feast the film we had been watching in class for a long time (the reviews will be due at Thursday night). We should use all of the three step process that we learned for writing film reviews and in using these examples we should succeed in our efforts.
3 Steps of viewing and reviewing film:
Viewing #1: Enjoyment!
Before (Optional):
Preliminary research to establish context
- Artists
- Production?
- Expectations- Trailer
During: Let the Movie happen!
After:
Initial reactions
- What does your gut tell you?
- Is that gut reaction subjective or objective.
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Viewing #2: Examin meaning
Before:
Based on the initial responses what parts will you evaluate.
During:
Analyze the development of those parts of the film
After:
Planting seeds for paragraphs
- Establish claims
- Find evidence
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Viewing #3: Precision
Before: Determin where you will be looking for evidence
- Content (to be evaluated)
- Theme (to identify and evaluate)
During: Search for specific scenes to help you
After: Refine analysis
- Replace natural language with tonal flavor
- Clarify relationships with transitions
- Clarity/Specificity
Wright v. write
ReplyDeleteGreat details from our classroom learning, especially for showing the three viewings.
Where is the extension? That’s half of the assignment!