Preparation for final longer assignment
23 Novembro 2016, 14:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
Discussed students' ideas individually with them. This was the culmination of an ongoing exchange of emails where students sent their ideas or more formal abstracts for reaction.
Presented the layout of the analysis they will have to do and students did the first introductory text in class, and we continued to discuss their ideas and questions as they did this.
The layout for final assignment can be seen below.
Layout for final film review
Introductory paragraph where you write your initial reasons for selecting the movie. You should do this before watching the movie again because often one is reacting to a memory of watching the film under particular circumstances. This will also help them to select specific connection points that they will later do their free associative film analysis to.
Introduction – technical details of the film
Brief plot summary/Description of mood and/or characters
Formal Analysis – following one of more of the perspectives presented by Timothy Corrigan: A Short Guide to Writing about Film – this to the whole movie.
Free Associative Analysis – to 2 or at the most 3 specific sections
Conclusion/Evaluation
Bibliography
Points 4&5 may be inter-spliced or presented sequentially. This is the author’s personal preference.
Layout for final literary review
Introductory paragraph where you write your initial reasons for selecting the book/play/movie/theme in a book. You should do this before reading the piece again because often one is reacting to a memory of reading a singular text under particular circumstances. This will also help to select specific connection points that you will later do your free associative literary analysis to (if applicable).
Identification of the piece and brief indication of where the position this plays/played in the author’s overall work
Formal introduction and situation of the relevance of the piece in literary history – the movement it belonged to etc.
Free Associative Analysis that can also move back to formal analysis as Holland does in his free associative film analysis
Conclusion
Bibliography
Layout for final song review
Introductory paragraph where you write their initial reasons for selecting the song. You should do this before listening to the piece again, or researching it because often one is reacting to a memory. This will also help to select specific connection points that you will later do your free associative literary analysis to.
Introduction – technical details about the song, the album, group, and platform released on.
Overview of response
Analysis
Free Associative Analysis
Conclusion/Evaluation
Bibliography