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Film Analysis

Paper Length: 4-5 pages

This essay will offer an analysis of the entire film.

Specifically, your analysis should focus on any of the stylistic elements (mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, sound, narrative). Your main goal will be to describe the ways in which the director deploys these aspects to evoke a specific, underlying theme. This means you must think deeply about what your film is about and what the director is trying to say. Essays should follow the guidelines below:

1.) Your paper should begin by offering a Thesis Statement regarding the overall “meaning” of the film you are analyzing, and how the director constructs that meaning through the film’s style. Be specific. What message, theme, or idea is the director trying to communicate through this film, and what stylistic strategies does he/she deploy to communicate that theme/idea?

a. Example: The Graduate seeks to describe the feelings of anxiety experienced by young 20-somethings in the 1960s towards their parents’ generation and the social values it represented. Throughout the film, Mike Nichol’s uses specific framing devices and editing techniques that encourage the viewer to “step into” Benjamin Braddock’s shoes and experience the social pressure he feels to conform to society’s expectations.

2.) Identify what you feel are the most important techniques used by the director to get his/her main point across.

· Example: Nichols often constructs “flat” images in close-up, creating scenes that feel claustrophobic

· He also deploys various POV shots that encourage us to feel as though we are literally “seeing” the scene from Ben’s perspective

3.) Explain the function of these techniques. Why did the director choose to construct the film in this way?

· Example: Nichol’s flattened, close-up shots often occur when Ben is interacting with his parents and/or other adults, thus creating the feeling that these adults are interfering in his life, and overburdening him with unwanted pressures to behave and conform to their wishes.

· Nichol’s POV shots often occur when Ben is experiencing moments of heightened anxiety, such as the “pool scene” or the “hotel scene.” These shots encourage us to “feel” Ben’s anxiety by forcing us to view the scene from his own psychological perspective.

Most of you have already begun to do this kind of analysis in your essays. As such, you may incorporate the work you have already done for the Scene Analysis into this second essay! For the second essay, however, you must discuss at least two additional scenes in your analysis (for a total of three).

Essays will be graded on:

· The clarity of your thesis

· Your understanding of the stylistic concepts deployed

· Your attention to detail (in terms of providing specific examples, etc.)

· The overall quality of your analysis

· Your command of the standard rules of writing.