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By Caryn Talty, M.A. Department of English Northern Illinois University |
Voices from the Classroom
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Sample Webboard PostingTOP | Post | Reply | Reply/Quote | Email Reply | Delete | Edit | Move Previous | Next | Previous Topic | Next Topic | Entire Topic Topic: Week 9: Film Studies (1 of 2), Read 91 times Conf: Assignments From: Caryn Talty ctalty15@hotmail.com Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 12:32 PM Today you will be carrying our film studies and analysis discussions a step further by applying the criteria for film analysis to a secondary source. Choose a movie (it can even be the one you're going to do for your Web site) and read two reviews of it. Then compare and contrast these two reviews, using direct quotations where necessary. Which one does the better job of dissecting the movie's strong and weak points? Does one author leave out essential details? Do both authors have a more or less equal view of the movie, or does one supersede the other? Did they miss anything about the movie you yourself have noticed? Also, take note of the way each author organizes his/her review. Do they communicate their opinions in a reader-based manner? Are their articles concise? Easy to follow? Look at how much they use plot summary (the worst film reviews, in my mind, are simply book reports for movies) and how much specific detail they go into. In determining for yourself which is the better review, you will hopefully get an idea of what sort of ground to cover for your own paper. Post your comparison and contrast to your peer editing conference, and spend some time scouting around other peoples' postings. Feel free to alter or update your posting after doing so. Also, if you're looking for additional information on your movie, the Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/ is a good place to look. If yours is a recent movie, you might also want to look at Upcoming Movies.com http://www.upcomingmovies.com/ for info on a film's production struggles. If you need a site to go to for a film review, try the following: (you can find their exact addresses by through a Google search): Andrew Hicks--Movie Critic At Large Mr. Showbiz Movie Review Query Engine Roger Ebert On Line |
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