Category: Art : Film

Structure of Final Paper
Introduction
• This is an introduction on what I’m going to write about.
• First sentence should grab your readers’ attention.
• It should be written last after you have done everything for your subheadings.
• Last sentence is your thesis statement, which is your main ‘argument’ of what the essay is going to be about.
 
Production
• For instance, a production company, the studio behind the film, the label company of an artist, etc.
• Who were the principal creative operatives in producing that media content?
• If you choose an episode from a TV show, who directed the episode?
• All the creative types who carried their baggage (track record) into the episode?
o What kind of creative background did they bring into that production?
• This is crucial to players, (people in the industry).
o Credits are determined by union contracts.
 
Distribution
• How the product gets somewhere?
• Exhibition – how the product makes a profit?
• Might be the shortest section of the paper.
• Might even find out some of the details of the distribution deal of the trade publications.
• Bring (compress) exhibition into distribution.
Interpretation (Stuart Hall uses the word “use,” we don’t care about that)
• Dominant reading, associative reading, etc.
• Who is using the media content? – viewers, audience.
• The audience interprets the content.
• Purpose of this paper is for you to interpret the meaning of the content.
• Hone your ability to critically analyze media content.
• Your head is your tool for observation.
• Your head must reflect some theoretical perspectives that you’re picking up from this course.
 
Social Reproduction
• For example, people posing alongside Rocky, products, merch, costumes, people posing on locations where movies, or TV shows were filmed, etc.
 
Close
• Give your audience closure.
• Explain to your reader once again what you’ve done
4-5 sources. The media content is self does not count as one.

Please write about your thoughts and questions brought about a film recently assigned for class. You can select ANY film that they have watched in class up to this point.
Do your best to connect the film to the course readings and lectures from the corresponding week. Practice using quotes and citations correctly, and add the appropriate bibliographic information. Also, please share your personal thoughts, questions, opinions, and ideas brought up by the film.
Reports should be typed using 12 pt font and double-spaced. Each film report should include the name of the film (always Italicize film titles), the director’s name, and the year the film was made. They should be no fewer than TWO paragraphs and no more than 1.5 pages.
Film:  The Conversation, Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, 1974
There is a free version with Spanish subtitles here: https://archive.org/details/LaConversacionTheConversationVo

Students will write three to five pages (longer is fine if they are needed to complete your argument), that examine one or two films presented in class; They can focus on one film or compare and contrast.
Students will be expected to contextualize the film/s in relation to their social and political history, and use filmic language and terminology to describe formal elements.
Students will be expected to incorporate citations from class readings, with at least one additional research source, and include a bibliography.

Please write about your thoughts and questions brought about a film recently assigned for class.
Do your best to connect the film to the course readings and lectures from the corresponding week. Practice using quotes and citations correctly, and add the appropriate bibliographic information. Also, please share your personal thoughts, questions, opinions, and ideas brought up by the film.
Reports should be typed using 12 pt font, double-spaced, and uploaded here. Each film report should include the name of the film (always Italicize film titles), the director’s name, and the year the film was made. They should be no fewer than TWO paragraphs and no more than 1.5 pages.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film, directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) to commit murders.
The script was inspired by various experiences from the lives of Janowitz and Mayer, both pacifists who were left distrustful of authority after their experiences with the military during World War I.
Caligari was released at a time when foreign film industries had just started easing restrictions on the import of German films following World War I. The film was acquired for American distribution by the Goldwyn Distributing Company, and had its American premiere at the Capitol Theatre in New York City on 3 April 1921. Capitol Theatre runner Samuel Roxy Rothafel commissioned conductor Ernö Rapée to compile a musical accompaniment York . . . Rotafel wanted the score to match the dark mood of the film, saying: “The music had, as it were, to be made eligible for citizenship in a nightmare country”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpn49rUuOGU (Film Link)

I used chatgpt to create a draft. I am going to add my draft and outline here. I want to make sure that this is copyright free and ai free. It needs to be between 3900 to 4000 words.