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Overview: You will be selecting a filmmaker from the list provided and conducting an “auteur” study of that director, watching at least 2 of her films, researching her life and work, observing her characteristic themes and stylistic choices, and presenting what you found. Research: Do some research on your selected director’s life and work. Be sure to find reliable sources! (e.g. Wikipedia is NOT a reliable source!) Don’t forget to start with our text and make use of their bibliographical references. Search our library’s databases for academic/film journal. You should end up with a variety of sources – books and academic journal articles are the most trustworthy; online sources are iffy, so you should only rely on these for immediate and/or extra information and make sure that they are .edu, .org., or .gov with a reputable author. Once you have found your sources, read them, taken notes, and used them to gain a strong understanding of your director and her/his reception in the film world, prepare an annotated bibliography. Screening: Use all available sources at your disposal to locate at least TWO film selections from your director (the more the better, though!) Here are some suggestions: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney+, Youtube, film collections at other colleges and universities (if you have access), film student friends, each other. If you run into trouble finding anything, ask for help – sooner rather than later. Once you have the films in hand, screen them in their entirety! Watch for similarities in style, narrative, content, symbolism, and technique; take notes; look for evidence of your research. Writing: Gather your impressions about your director’s stylistic approach, thematic and/or narrative concerns, place in cinema history, and what makes her/him unique. What makes this person recognizable as an “auteur” director? When you feel confident in your own response to the films, WRITE! You are aiming for a 3-4 page reflection paper, revolving around what you found to be your most interesting discovery about this director. Be sure to rely on your observations of the films themselves to support your claims and use your research only in support of your own points. You are NOT regurgitating a biography of your director!!! Bo-ring! Instead, pick one or two things you found most interesting from your research and from your screening of the films and revolve your discussion around that. Be sure to CITE ALL OF YOUR SOURCES. If you are uncertain how to do this, please ask. The Writing Center is an awesome resource for this too. In-Class Workshop: On the day it is due, have a short film clip from your director ready to screen (no more than 3-5 minutes, you can send me the link ahead of time or you can share your screen during the zoom session with out class) that you think serves as an interesting example of her work. You will have the opportunity to show us this clip, briefly setting it up and discussing it (2-3 minutes). Then, you will be participating in a “group interview” and discussion with our community, in which you will be asked questions about taking an auteur approach, reflecting on what you learned through the project, etc

After exploring the movie lists during the time period in 1940-1970, I have come across to a movie, which I appreciate the dialogue, the actors, and the clean edit cuts. The movie I have chosen was 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957). The Director by Sidney Lumet and the Screenplay by Reginald Rose created a beautiful film that displays great character from each of the actors. In my opinion, I believe this film was a great film because of the director who took the time to save money on its revenue, gather great actors for the characters, and adding a sentimental message into the film. By the way, he accomplishes this story was capturing the emotional scenes throughout the film with a single technique, which was the close-up shots of the actors face. I thought the actors played great with their character because if a film that does not have special effects, the acting, and the dialogue would have to play a fantastic role. Which, I believe they did a great job. In addition, the storyline was fascinating from the beginning of the movie that I thought it would be an easy case for everyone to say guilty. However, the leading actor, Henry Fonda played Juror #8. He was the only character who cared for the 18-year-olds’ life. The whole scene was taken place in a room where the Jurors could discuss the situation and the placement of the cameras were well placed.In the film, there were not many edits, such as special edits or visual edits. However, in class, we learned about continuity editing that is maintaining continuity between cuts (Retchless, 2006). The storyline and the edits should be organized with the cutting and focus on one actor to another when there is dialogue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVnaL_MbBGk Watch above video link once you finished, please write a short reflexion about the documentary(no more than 100 to 150 words, please)

Identify three actors from the film Titanic and their style of acting in this film. Compare their performance in this film in relation to other performances. Analyze how the actors’ choices impact the development of each character. Describe how costuming and makeup contribute to the actor’s performance. Is it realistic, stylized, or fantastical? Focus on one of the actors you have discussed. Based on other films the actor has been in, would you consider this actor typecast or broad-ranging in his/her performances? If so, what does this say about the genre of film or the actor? If not, what can you infer about the flexibility of these categories? Provide evidence (references from other films, including film clips and stills) to support your argument. You must use at least two outside sources, in any combination of embedded video clips, still photos, or scholarly sources. All sources should be documented in APA style as outlined by the Ashford Writing Center  (Links to an external site.) . Please view the video Posting in a Discussion in Canvas  (Links to an external site.)  for guidance on how to integrate multimedia with your response.

Assignment: For our final project this semester, we will create an extended argument incorporating appropriate source materials in a formal collegiate format. This type of writing is what will be expected of you in your writing assignments in most other undergraduate classes: not only are you expected to be able to understand facts found in outside source materials, but you are expected to discuss what those facts mean and use them to support your own claims: you create an argument with a thesis statement for any college-level research paper. You are to generate an essay that is both argumentative and expository in relation to a topic of your development and investigation in relation to a primary source. One key is to choose and develop a topic you are actually interested in writing about. In a nutshell, you must choose a text to analyze and write about—just as we’ve been doing all term—, but this time you get to select a film and use secondary sources to develop and support your argument. Length: 5 pages minimum; no more than 7 full pages (Works Cited page not included) Sources: Minimum three (3) separate secondary sources: ? No internet sources allowed (I want you to learn to use an academic library; database sources are obviously are okay) ? At least three (3) sources procured through our collegiate library resources: databases, the library catalogue, and Mobius. ? Generally, sources should be academic and scholarly in nature. Examples of scholarly sources include: o –scholarly/academic journals articles o –books o –major daily newspapers (Washington Post, L.A. Times, etc.) Primary Source Options (Select one film from this list for this project. All are available on Swank. You MUST choose from this list.): Jordan Peele, Get Out (2017) Practicality is paramount: Can you find source material? My advice is to begin with a topic that you are interested in learning more about, but you must quickly determine if you can locate research materials on your chosen topic. You must use a total of at least THREE secondary sources: Be sure to meet the essay guidelines concerning the number and kind of sources required; papers incorporating information from fewer than three acceptable sources are not meeting minimum assignment requirements. Remember: Do not to write a summary of your subject; rather, you are creating a researched argument. In other words, this is not the essay in which you should simply list your research; this is not an essay that summarizes the film; this is not an essay that tells the story of “the making of” a film; this is not an evaluation or a review. You can assume that your reader is generally familiar with the film but has not yet thought of it analytically. Remember: we want to gain an insight; this insight will form the basis of your thesis. 1. Use what you have learned about argumentation since the beginning of 101: • make an arguable observation about the text • make a claim as to how the text reflects upon our world; • organize topics that support the thesis • rely on strong and detailed evidence 2. Remember, too, that whenever you borrow information from an outside source—whether it is directly or indirectly quoted, paraphrased, or summarized—if the information is not general knowledge, then you must cite it fully in proper MLA format. 3. Again, keep the structure of your argument in mind: introduce your topic, make your claim (thesis), then build on your points in the body paragraphs; your research materials are to be used as supporting evidence for the ideas YOU have developed. 4. Most of this paper (two-thirds) should be your own thoughts, with the outside information (one-third) used to support your ideas. Participation on Proposal Discussion Board (20 points) Submit an initial post that that answers the following questions in paragraph form (5 to 7 sentences): What do you want to write on, and why? What are you interested in here? That is, what do you think you might learn from this research? Or, what question(s) do you seek to answer? What sort of research sources have you found to this point? Specifically identify at least two secondary sources (by title, author, and location of source) that you found through our library resources (i.e. the library catalogue, the library databases, or Mobius). You should address these questions in sentence and paragraph form: you are trying to clearly explain to us why you want to do this particular project and why is might be interesting. Give us a sense that you know what you are doing and that you want to do it. After your initial post, comment, offering constructive feedback, on two of your classmates’ proposals within the next couple of days. Working Bibliography (20 points) Submit a bibliography that follows MLA format. 5 sources minimum—you will need to find more sources than you end up using. Include the primary source. See the sample Works Cited and the MLA Citation Format PowerPoint. Include all secondary and primary sources. Annotated Bibliography (40 points) First, READ YOUR SOURCES; learning about your topic is absolutely essential: get started. Following each full MLA citation entry, write a one paragraph summary, evaluation, and assessment of five sources, providing samples of quotations and other information you plan to use in your essay OR provide an explanation of why the source will not be useful. 2 to 3 pages and 3 to 5 source entries. Basically, the annotated bibliography is a “normal” bibliography with writing on each entry; we will better define this assignment when we do our Annotation Workshop. Half-Draft and Remaining Outline (40 points) After READING YOUR SOURCES, compose the first three to five paragraphs of your paper (2 to 3 pages). At the very least, you should complete a working introduction (including your clearly identifiable thesis statement) as well as the first body paragraphs. Follow these paragraphs with an informal outline—a plan—for the remainder of the essay.

Your Final Paper is due midnight of Tue., 12/15 (electronic version).  This Final Paper (at least five 1.5-spaced pages, using 12-point Times New Roman font, with proper footnotes and bibliography/reference) should be a critical analysis (not a plot summary) of the works discussed, and should involve solid research in secondary sources. Possible topics include comparing and contrasting two film from the screening list, or examining how conflicts are portrayed and resolved through cinematic language and cultural contexts. You can broaden your discussions based on one or one of the 5 Reflection Essays you have written during the semester. The paper should follow the MLA style of documentation. Any form of dishonesty including plagiarism will be prosecuted following the University regulations. Please write the paper based on those two movies: ??Hero (2002) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_(2002_film)   and   ??Confucius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_(2010_film)

For this project I have chosen to do a remake of the old film Nosferatu from 1922. In attached files are some examples of how I wish the paper to turn out PLEASE take some time reading them. The followings are the instructions of the paper given by the instructor: Identify your chosen project (Nosferatu remake) and its potential buyer(Feature, indie feature, network, TV, Cable, Streaming.)  Tell your screen story in a logline. Identify your project’s  source.(i.e. a book, a remake, a news article, etc.) Identify who controls the underlying rights and how you would secure them. Identify the genre and your target audience. Explain your reasoning by using demographic data and citing similar movies/TV shows  as back-up for your audience selection.

Choose any film and write a essay based on Corrigan’s “six approaches to writing about film”. Talk through the range of ways you could approach a particular text.

Essay 1: Formal Analysis Identify and discuss the significance of the audiovisual elements of a single scene from the (short) film screened during class. How do these elements contribute to the meaning and impact of this particular scene? How might your analysis deepen your reader’s understanding of the importance of this scene to the entire film? To develop your argument, you must identify and carefully analyze elements of the “mise-en-scène” and discuss how they work together to create meaning. https://www.dropbox.com/s/f9hanzbicqo1ue4/Bao.2018.m4v?dl=0

Discuss Mise-en-Scene as it applies to the movie “Psycho”; specifically mention aspects of the sets, the costumes (clothing) and makeup, the lighting, and the movement of the actors in certain scenes in the film. ex 1) The Mise-en-Scene in the movie Psycho is dark and uses low dimmed lights to create a certain scenery. Like when we find out he killed his mother and she has been stored away below them the entire time. The lighting around her is dark but when we get the turn around and realize its a skeleton, the adding of one lamp light above them really makes it more epic. The shower scene is also a time where they use lighting to create a scenery. When we see a shadow creep up on the tub shower hanger, because its dark it seems ominous and we therefore have our guard up. If that scene was made with color I truly think the emotions one feels while watching is different. Most of the set is dark and gives a suspicious or mysterious vibe. Norman bates movement had to be crucial because he not only has to be himself, but he must also act like his mother. We catch a glimpse of this when he puts on her clothes and act like her.   ex 2) The way the aspects of Mise-en-Scene apply to the film Psycho contribute to what makes it a well-known, classic horror film. A majority of the film takes place on a nearly deserted hotel run single handedly by Norman Bates. The set of the film can make audiences feel uneasy by understanding that no one would be around to help the characters if something were to happen to them. Lightning also contributed to giving characters a sense of what kind of person they were, like Norman’s face being only half lit to show his split personality, and Marion Crane’s face being lit up to show her intentions with the money had changed. Staging also helped Norman’s personalities be revealed from him sitting comfortably in his seat and making friendly conversation with Marion, to him sitting straight up and speaking very defensive to her. Lastly, costumes were an important aspect in the film by having Norman dress like his deceased mother to give the illusion of her committing the murders.