Connect Your Review Of The Film With The Cultural And Social Ideas

Film WorksheetArt Education 1600 Art and Music since 1945
For this assignment, you are to see a film this semester and fill out your worksheet. Use the skills you learned for the Art Worksheet, but now you have to analyze the combination of sound and moving images.
Step 1 Select a Film
Selecting a film to watch is more than picking a movie with favorite actors or a genre you like (science fiction, superheroes, detective mysteries, romance). The film you pick should have enough interesting content to write about. It helps to inform yourself with two kinds of film reviews. First, professional critics have seen many movies and write from a well-informed point of view, but theirs is just one point of view. Beyond the perspective of a Professional critic, there are reviews from moviegoers, like yourselves, who post their responses on blogs and theater websites. Viewer reviews can be just as valid as professional reviews, so long as they explain why they feel the way they do about a film. Both kinds of reviews can help you narrow your choice of a film, and in the end, pick a film you feel like writing about.
10 pts: State the title of the film you chose:
“searching”
Citations and References
If you decide you use ideas from the film reviews or any source, write the name of the source here:
REMEMBER
1. You must view the film for this worksheet personally, and you must see it in a theater. Even if you choose an older film made in 1945 or later, we want you to see the film in a theater. At a theater, you sense the effects of the sound and moving images as they were intended. Films reproduced for television or on DVD on a home system lose the effect you sense in a theatre.
2. Connect your review of the film with the cultural and social ideas we address in class. How do you think audiences relate the narrative on the screen with other narratives in the press or entertainment media? Superheroes, for example, save the day when complicated agencies of government and military fail.
3. Look over the Film Worksheet before you attend the film, so you know what to look for in the film. Taking notes during the film is usually a problem, but you can make your notes afterward. You might be surprised at how much you will recall about the film and your experience of viewing it.
Late Paper Policy:
You will lose points for assignments turned in late after the final deadline.
1 day late: 20%
2 days late: -40%
3 days late: -60%
4 days late: -80%
Step 2 Organize your data
This step is about your experience of viewing the film and how the director kept you engaged.
Step2.1: The audience and space, and you
Your experience as a moviegoer is as important as the film itself. Analyze and describe the environmental conditions in the theater and how your circumstances affected your perception of the film.
25 pts: Type your response below in 200 words:
Step 2.2 The director and you
An important part of film critique is how the director holds the audience’s attention
In the classic film Pulp Fiction, the director manipulates the pace of the film, switching between 1) scenes where two characters have a long conversation and the camera is still and 2) lots of action fast camera work. When the film slows down you become aware of how long even one minute can seem, but when the pace picks up, time is compressed, and you do not notice the minutes passing.
All the effects and drama of the film play with your attention span (and your imagination) to help you forget where you are. Every piece of equipment from the huge screen, to the sound system, supports the director’s attempts to take you into their world. This is one of the reasons we require you to attend a theatre.
So, how do you think the director pulled you into the world of the film you viewed? Were there surprises that kept your attention? Were the effects overstated? Were they tiresome or ridiculous?
25 pts: Type your response below in 200 words:
Aneesh Chaganty, the director, observes to have had a couple of themes in his mind while directing “searching.’’ The shockingly effective movie does not only develop a sense of constant but palpable tension it also pulls off effective emotional beats. It is an impressive cinematic film with no small feat considering the stylistic limitations. Searching’s pacing and rhythm are one of a kind as the cameras move around and punch in computer screens to how the director adds fresh angles to the combination but still maintains to adhere to the basic concept. It makes the drama of David’s search more captivating. The use of social media to search for her daughter humanizes the entire film experience, as these are Medias we use all the time but we do not see the positive side of them as portrayed by the film. Watching searching in a theater is an awesome experience especially because of the big screens, considering searching effects of punching into other screens in a screen the effect is great.
Step 2.3 Analyze the film technically
To help you pick out aspects of the film that you can analyze, read the following list and include the vocabulary and examples from the film in your responses. Pick at least two aspects from each category (i.e., Literary, Dramatic, and Cinematic). Scroll down to write your response.
Pick two literary aspects
* Narrative (the story, storyline, what the storyline is based on; binary oppositions; disruption of equilibrium and how a new equilibrium sets in).
* Characters (heroes, villains, helpers, main characters, supporting characters, and how characters function and contribute to our understanding of the story).
* Setting (physical environment in which filming occurs, indoor or outdoor setting, its significance).
* Theme (a general statement about the subject)...