How to Choose An Approach & Develop A Thesis I recommend watching the film first

How to Choose An Approach & Develop A Thesis
I recommend watching the film first (even if you saw it already!), keeping the definitions of both kinds of analysis in mind and looking for elements in the film that match them. I do better, personally, if I take notes (otherwise I forget my evidence afterwards). Note down (or voice-to-text in your phone’s notes app) any theories you develop as you watch about symbols, patterns of images, political & social issues of our time, or the film’s relationship to history.
After you’ve gone through the film and making notes, it should be a lot easier to figure out what you have good evidence of. Evidence is the heart of analysis–you can’t make claims about a text that you can’t back up with examples from the text supporting the claim–so it’s often easiest to create an analysis by working backwards from what evidence is there to what claim or theory might unite / explain a lot of those pieces of evidence.

Where To Find Evidence To Support Your Claims
Use summary of the film or correctly quoted dialogue from it to support every claim (argument) you make about its intent and meaning. Some of the elements of the film you may be summarizing / analyzing to support your claims:
Sound–music, sound effects, character conversations (dialogue)
Image–how people/scenes are framed (close up/far way, detailed/blurry, what’s in focus and what isn’t), who is pictured, what kind of place are they in and what scenery is there in it, how characters move/look/dress.
Editing & Filming Techniques–how does film transition from one scene to another, and what camera angles and types of shots used
Pacing/Structure–the order information is given to us and how it affects our reception of the film, how fast or slow things move
The only source is the movie itself.
Organization Requirements
An introductory paragraph with:
A lead-in sentence (a first sentence that establishes some connection between what you’re analyzing and the real world)
1-3 sentence summary of the film
1-3 sentence thesis statement that tells us about the film’s themes/ideas/message(s)
A body paragraph for each major idea or topic you address (all body paragraphs should support thesis statement). Body paragraphs should all contain:
a topic sentence stating what the paragraph will cover and what it will argue
support sentences that include quotations or summary from the film
analysis sentences explaining
how the quotes/summaries you’ve used as support show that your topic sentence claim is correct
A conclusion paragraph with:
3-4 sentence restatement of your main idea & most important pieces of evidence
an outro/farewell/”big picture”/future prediction ending sentence