E 309M Computers and Writing Project 3
Update. You can also perform an analysis of some aspect of the film.
See task four for more information.
The third major undertaking for our course will be to evaluate the film,
Bladerunner. You will be asked to write an evaluation paper about the film. The
paper should do three major things: it should spend some energy trying to define
what kind of film Bladerunner is. It should next try to define what criteria make
up a successful film of it's kind. For example, if you consider the film to be an
action movie, then some of the criteria for a good action movie might be that it
provides lots of visual stimualtion for the viewer, that it has a suspensful plot
and that there is a clear division between good and evil. These are just sample
criteria; the ones you come up with will relate more specifically to Bladerunner,
I'm sure. Finally, you'll need to anlayze ways in which the film fulfills or
does not fulfill the criteria that you've come up with. Does the tone of the film
overwhelm the visual stimulation? Does a particular image or scene clearly
demonstrate the forces of good and evil? Is the plot clear or confusing? It
will be important that you refer to specifics from the film when discussing
whether or not it meets the criteria. You can add images to your papers using
most word processors and you should always treat the images as "verbal
quotations" which need discussing and analyzing. You might also think about web
versions of the paper. Part of the discussion of the success or failure of the
film should depend on the way it handles issues of visual as well as sonic
presentation, so a natural extension of your thinking about the way the film
handles these issues would be to handle them yourself in a visual or sonic
presentation. You can either do a web or a paper version of the project
The requirements are
For Students Enrolled at UT: Draft of
Project 3 due 11/3
For Students Enrolled at UT: Project 1 due
11/9
The project should be four or more pages in length, or
if done on the web, should contain the equivalent of three pages of original
analysis.
To complete the project, you should go through
Return to the Online Highbeam to the E 309M page or to the CWRL.