Film ESSAY PAPER

General Instructions: For each of the two papers, you will be responsible for watching a film and writing a 3 to 5-page essay (double spaced, Calibri 11 font, 1" margins) in which you respond to prompts which will be provided for each paper (this means at least 3 full pages of a written essay, plus the “My Criteria for Quality in Film” page). These assignments are reaction papers, not plot summaries or research papers. The key element here is that you will be telling the instructor what you have to say about the film, not what others have said.

In a 100-level course, you would perhaps be asked to write about what you saw on the screen. In a 200-level course, you would be asked to say what you think about what you saw. In this 300-level course, you are expected to explain why you think the way you do about the film, and to justify your explanation (using references to subjects found in the weekly content in the LEO classroom.