google slides

Requirements!!

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#1: A minimum of 25 meaningful slides is required.

If you use a slide only for a content heading, for example “Career,” or only to present a clip or clips, it doesn’t count towards the 25.

#2: A minimum of five sources (not counting Wikipedia and the assigned readings) is required. Seek out articles, interviews, biographies etc. Cite each source as you refer to it, for example: Carroll (2008: 126)

#3: Include relevant images and clips.

Images should be some mixture of production stills and/or publicity stills and frame grabs from the director’s films (production stills are photographs taken on set during a movie’s production). Clips should be from the director’s movies, though you may also use interview clips if you find them (and you can certainly quote from written interviews with the director).

#4: Your connection to the director and their films.

Keep in mind that we already know you ‘like’ the director, else you wouldn’t be creating a presentation about them; instead, articulate why their work is meaningful to you and why you believe others would find it meaningful. Please provide a measured assessment. Don’t write like a movie reviewer. Words such as ‘masterful’ and ‘brilliant’ should be avoided.

#5: The director’s career in detail

- how they started, how they made it, where they are now and what are they doing now. Distill what can be learned from their career path about succeeding at becoming a professional director. You may bring in issues of race, class, gender, or sexuality if they are relevant to the director’s career path and films (and your connection to the director).

#6: A detailed analysis of the director’s recurring subjects, themes and stylistic choices.

This requires reference to a number of their films. It also requires brief but meaningful analyses of clips from three of those films. These clips should be representative of the director’s primary subjects, themes and style.

#7: wrap up with a list of all your references.

Use whatever bibliographic format you are most familiar with: MLA, APA, Chicago

You may embed clips in your presentation or provide links. In the case of links, if a clip is long please provide in- and out-points for viewing its most salient section, for example ‘1:06 to 2:45.’ If you can’t find clips you need online you can create them yourself using MKV (google it) which allows you capture content off of DVDs and Blu-rays from which you can then create clips. There are also software options (again, google it) for recording streamed media in real time. There are online tutorials for all of this.

GRADING RUBRIC

10% - Provides accurate and complete information about the director and their films

10% - Draws lessons from the director’s career path about solving the problem of becoming a working director

30% - Convincingly identifies common threads in the director’s work and their significance using a number of the director’s films as examples to support this analysis

30% - Cogently analyzes at least three clips from the director’s films, demonstrating how they exemplify those common threads and creative, thematic concerns

10% - Demonstrates an understanding of cinematic techniques and the terminology used to describe them

10% - Uses slides that are an engaging, well-designed mixture of image and text (10%)

Up to 10 points can be deducted for issues of grammar and sentence structure and for not properly formatting or tracking sources/citations.

If you straight out plagiarize you will unfortunately receive zero credit for the assignment (I’m required to point this out).