They also asked questions about their abstracts

Review of general linguistic mistakes in students essays

Review of individual corrections with students.

Discussion of students' free associative film analysis texts - from the perspective of structure. 

Discussed the sentences and corrected the mistakes with students.

Introduction to free associative film analysis:

Students had read the preface to Norman Holland's Meeting Movies where he presents the concept of free associative film analysis and they had also read the first pages of his free associative analysis of Casablanca. 

We discussed both texts and students' questions about this - we then watched the first 30 mins of the film.

I had asked students to select an element of the film that spoke to them - they did this and performed a 5-minute free writing exercise from a prompt they wrote that identified the scene for them. They will then expand rationally on this writing over the weekend from the stepping off point that they think is most appropriate. This is to give them some practice of free associative film analysis. 

Students had to look for socio-cultural elements: they had to consider how Gregory set the scenario to sucessfully subject Paula to psychological manipulation.

They also had to consider the cinematic elements that were at play to tell (and foretell) the story visually using cinematic mise-en-scene and sound and picture editing.