Movie Assignments

Note: these are general guidelines that are intended to assist your writing. You may find it helpful to follow these steps and use these hints but it is not required to do the assignment in the way listed below. Find out what works for you and stick with it. You may also open this attachment to view and print this paper:

Steps I took:

1.       1) Review the movie by reading a summary about the film-this will give you a general idea of what the movie is about and what type of terminology it may contain.

2.       2) Go through the chapters and locate terms that you find interesting and note the terms that you think may be present in the film.

a.       Note: The majority of the terms should be from the chapters that are selected for the particular movie. However, some of the terms may be from other chapters. As long as terms are appropriately related to the film, their use will be accepted.       

3.       3) After deciding which terms you would like to include, write them down on paper or in a Word document on the computer.

4.       4) While watching the movie, take notes and write down the times of particular scenes where you feel that you observed particular terminology. This will allow you to review certain scenes when writing your assignment.

5.       5) After finishing the movie and taking notes, decide what you would like to include in your blog entry.

6.       6) Transform your notes in to a blog entry by organizing them in to categories. The majority of the terms relate to one another so it is not difficult to decide how to group your terms together to form paragraphs.

Hints and Reminders:

A.     A) Write your assignment in a Word document first then copy and paste it in to the blog. To prevent the loss of an assignment, save your document before submitting it. In the event that your blog entry does not post, you can open your saved document, copy and paste the entry, and re-post it.

B.      B)  It is unnecessary to summarize the movie and give your opinion on what you thought of the movie. However, it is necessary that you give your scholarly opinion on how you believe particular scenes or characters relate to terminology in the book. You will describe parts of the movie and/or the characters involved in it but do not need to summarize the entire movie.

C.       C) It may be helpful to pause the movie while taking notes so you can take necessary time to relate it to specific terms.

D.       D) Initially the comments are more broad and general. Eventually comments become more in-depth and discuss more specific terminology.

E.      E) Although this process seems complicated, it gradually gets easier and easier after each film.