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Short Film Paper

• Due: 9 September 2016
• Points: 100 points (10% of total grade).
• Length: 3-5 pages 
• Final Paper Rubric: 
• Short Film Paper Rubric.docx  
• Final paper should be posted on your personal roster page AND at Turnitin (which is where I will check and grade papers). 
• Turnitin ID and password:
• 10517267 / ENG2033 

• Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to engage in ekphrasis. Transform one of our early readings into a feature-length film or television miniseries. 
• Summarize the text in one or two pages. 
• Identify one central theme from the text that you want to convey to your film's audience. Create a thesis about that theme and the way you will convey it. 
• Explain how your filming choices convey that central theme of your chosen text.
• Casting
• Dialogue 
• Setting
• Costuming
• Sound track 
•  Special Effects 
• Student Examples:
• Gilgamesh Film Paper 
• Gilgamesh Paper 2.docx  

Directions:

The purpose of the paper is to transform Mary Rowlandson's Narrative into a feature-length film or television miniseries. Identify one central theme from the text that you want to convey to the audience and explain how all your filming choices from camera angle to setting convey that central theme (thesis). Use the material from the Visual Thinking resource page to support your close reading. The paper must be 3-5 pages long (MLA style - 12 point, Times New Roman, Double Spaced). The page length does not include the Work Cited Page. Papers should be posted on your personal roster page AND on SafeAssign (on Blackboard).  

Remember, the sort of close reading and ANALYSIS you do in your paper is THE SAME SORT OF CLOSE READING AND ANALYSIS we have been doing IN CLASS. Think of class lectures as PRACTICE (or models) for papers.  

Resources: Here's a New York Times article on film - it describes a lot of the different aspects of film that might be useful in this paper: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/movies/my-name-is-hmmm-a-french-road-movie.html?ref=arts&_r=0.