Today is paper day! Mr. Rivers asked everyone for their last questions about the synthesis essay. Mr. Rivers went over the MLA citation. We do not need an MLA heading, we don’t have to summarize the story of the book or movie. Mr. Rivers mentioned how we have to be considerate of our audience when deciding if we want to summarize or paraphrase for context. We must have evidence for each paragraph. We must be as specific as possible to give the reader a better understanding of what point you are trying to make. We should have evidence from both texts in every paragraph, even your theme paragraph. Write this in first person. When citing a movie, put blu-ray or DVD in the container part depending on how you watched it.
We went over the INTERTEXTUALITY ESSAY document on google classroom. Watch out for the opening phrase on the conclusion. Avoid words like, “In conclusion”, “To conclude”. Talk about the MES of different shots in the movie to give your reader a better understanding of your argument. All of our papers will be going through turnitin.com to check for plagiarizing. Cassius asked if Mr. Rivers could revise his essay but didn’t realize that we are actually learning more about editing today, oof.
We talked more about editing, specifically the editing choices made by Hitchcock in the shower scene from Psycho (1960). We went over the effects that the editing choices have on the practical, thematic, and narrative aspects of the scene. For example, the multiple shots of the woman in the shower established the setting (narrative aspect). We talked about the editing choice during the eye-drain scene. The fade from the drain to the eye symbolizes that her life is slowly draining away from her.
lol @ Cassius reference in this
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