Film Festival Assignment (Due Mon, March 29)

Your mission from March 24-26 is to attend one of the films shown at the 4th Annual Old Dominion University/City of Norfolk OnFilm Festival and complete the related assignment below. The detailed schedule and information about the films can be found at: http://www.odu.edu/~lasmith/onfilm2010/Home.html
 
Festival films will usually be shown at the University Theater or Webb Center, and students should be able to obtain tickets for free or for a student fee (with a valid ODU ID).

It is preferable for this assignment to take the opportunity to attend the OnFilm festival. Note that some of the festival films will be shown during our regular class time; you may choose to attend one of those, should you have any schedule concerns. If for some reason, you cannot see one of the festival films, you are allowed to choose to see another film and do your assignment on that one.

Film Festival Assignment:
*Choose a film that you would like to see. In 3-5 paragraphs (approx. 500 words):
1) Describe the film and its context.
2) Identify a method of criticism discussed in class so far (Neo-Aristotelian, Ideological, Pentadic, Metaphor) that would be appropriate to criticize this film from a rhetorical perspective, briefly describe the method, and say why it would be appropriate for this film.
3) Provide a few examples from the parts of the film, and a possible short analysis of these parts (the characters, the dialogue, the images, the music, etc) through the method of your selection.
*This assignment is due on Mon, March 29th by class time on your individual course blogs.
*The assignments will be graded as part of your overall blog.