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"Students demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of how meaning is constructed in film. They do this through a written analysis of a prescribed film text, based on a chosen extract (lasting no more than five minutes) from that film. Students consider the cultural context of the film and a variety of film elements in their analysis, which is written using appropriate film vocabulary."
A written textual analysis in (1,750 words maximum) and a list of all sources used.
Textual Analysis Details and Rubric (PDF)
(Dead Links >>) Structure Guidance | TA Template
Exemplar TA on Water (2005) - 27/28 points [Essay] [Graded Rubric]
Exemplar TA on Stranger Things: The Disappearance of Will Byers (S01:E01, 2015) - 27/28 points [Essay] [Graded Rubric]
Relating Cultural Context to Film Elements
Prescribed Film List
Class of 2024
(Due Mon. Sept. 18 @ 11:59pm)
Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation
Director: Sofia Coppola
Comedy/Drama, 2003, USA.
“Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.”
Boy
Boy
Director: Taika Waititi
Comedy/Drama, 2010, New Zealand.
“Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.”
Paprika
Paprika
Director: Satoshi Kon
Fantasy/Drama, 2006, Japan.
“When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.”
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