Opening scene analysis – 1000 words (50%)
Using your understanding of the filmic techniques learned throughout the module, write an analysis of no more than 1,000 words on the opening of any of the films screened as a weekly case study. You should select no more than 5 minutes in total, and exclude the credits sequence (unless you wish to argue that this makes a significant contribution to the film’s opening).
Scene analysis – 1000 words (50%)
Using your understanding of the filmic techniques learned throughout the module, write an analysis of no more than 1,000 words on a scene of no longer than five minutes from any of the films screened as a weekly case study. This should not be an opening scene, and should not be taken from the same film that was used in the ‘opening scene analysis’ assignment.
Assessment aims:
Your aim in writing the essays should be to consider, analyse and describe the ways in which meaning is made and conveyed in your sequences and articulate how this may relate to wider patterns and themes in the film as a whole. Your essays should not only show knowledge of the film under discussion but should also demonstrate evidence of relevant critical reading from the module materials.
Your essays should demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the filmic techniques discussed throughout the module, and their effects on screen. Note that you cannot include all aspects in a single essay, so you will need to be clear in your essay about why you see the particular aspects/elements you focus on as important. (e.g. how editing techniques and soundtrack generate meaning in You Were Never Really Here.
This assessment measures the following module learning outcomes:
- Identify and accurately describe a range of filmic methods of story-telling and audio-visual techniques of expression, at an appropriate introductory level.
- Deploy the above concepts and knowledges in the critical analysis of the meanings, impacts and affects generated in selected film sequences, at an appropriate introductory level.
- Engage with relevant scholarship and form structured and coherent written arguments at an appropriate introductory level.
Your essay must be formatted as follows:
- MS Word
- Double-lined spaced
- Font size 11 or 12
- Include a filmography (lists all the films mentioned in the essay)
- Include a bibliography (lists all the written material referenced in the essay)
- Film titles should be italicised throughout
- The first time a character is mentioned, include the name of the actor in parentheses e.g. Carol (Cate Blanchett)
Word count / duration / size of assessment:
Each essay should be 1,000 words.
Referencing style:
You must use the Harvard referencing system for this assignment. There is comprehesive, step-by-step guidance on using Harvard here, on the Sussex Skillshub. Note that you will lose marks if you use any other referencing system other than Harvard.
– sample responses on the topic is attached below
– 1000 word each for opening scene analysis and scene analysis
– 6 references each – 12 total