Mikey Botta

Mikey Botta
11/30/2016

Today's Objectives: Understand the formal requirements of a strong film review, and evaluate how a well-written review meets our class goals and formal expectations.

To begin class, we looked at the charts we had created yesterday about the movie reviews we had found (I guess? I was absent yesterday). After analyzing those charts and the goals created on them, we moved forwards with our discussion, and then began to take notes.

For the most part, our notes involved writing a movie/film review. The formal expectations that must be followed are:

• Deliberately title article: title is the first introduction to the tone/argument of your review.  Title is the last thing that is written. We were shown 3 examples of strong titles. One was "Interstellar - 'science trumps story in latest Christopher Nolan epic'"
• Credit relevant artists: Who is important? Director, actors?
  You can credit them explicitly by naming them in the article, or credit parenthetically.
• Provide necessary context: What do we need to know about the film and it’s production? Is it part of a series? Does it reflect a trend? What is happening outside of the film?
• Summarize Plot: not covered today.
• Evaluate content: not covered today.
• Evaluate meaning/theme: not covered today.
• Conclude: not covered today.