Analyzing a Movie Review

Today we started on looking a journalistic movie review from the New York Time about Get Out. The review was surprisingly short but had a good amount of points and evidence to tell the reader their points of evidence that the movie is good. 
Some of the examples include

“An exhilaratingly smart and scary freakout about a black man in a white nightmare”

• Premise plot summary

“Jordan Peele of the comedy sketch show “Key & Peele.”

• Relevant artist

“Shadowy streets into menacing ones and turn silence into warnings from the abyss.”

• Tone
• Theme
• Setting

Then for the last 15 minutes of class, we started one our movie review close reading which is you select a movie review and copy/paste to the box that says "Paste Review Here". Then we use the highlight tool to identify where the review applies the journalistic expectations.

These journalistic expectations include.

1. Deliberately title article
2. Credit relevant artists
3. Provide necessary context
4. Summarize plot
5. Evaluate content
6. Evaluate meaning/theme
7. Conclude

You also have to use the underline tool to identify any transitions. This can occur most of the beginning or the end of a paragraph.

Takeaways are to reflect on how the reviews are a progression of our marking period 1 Be Reel Blogs

Grading
Highlights are for 30 points
Underlining is for 10 points
and the Takeaways are for 10 points