Essay on the book ‘Is There Life After Film School’ and discussing the people interviewed. ‘Is There Life After Film School?’ Essay With regard to the text, Is There Life After Film School? Discuss the various methods used by interviewees to overcome adversity and achieve success. Include comparison of descriptions by interviewees of those [...]
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A creative writing technique – get someone to pick 10 items (or pick them yourself) and write a story about them. The example below is about a person, written in class circa 2005. 1. A lava lamp 2. An abstract painting 3. A pipe 4. A digital camera 5. A book about Pandas 6. [...]
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Writing Assignment for Writing for Film and Media university module, 2005 Mike is staring at Julian. Julian is wearing a coat, the coat. Mike: What are you doing with my coat? Julian: Wearing it. Mike: Why? Julian: Because I want to. Mike: Well it’s mine, [...]
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University poetry essay on ‘My Picture Left in Scotland’, 2004. The poem ‘My Picture Left in Scotland’ is by Ben Jonson and is from the Renaissance period. In the poem the speaker (Jonson) states that he believes love is deaf, and not blind, and then begins to describe to the audience why. In the first [...]
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Notes on the auteur theory, 2004 Auteur is French for author. The auteur theory is a way of reading and appraising films through the imprint of an auteur, usually meant to be the director. André Bazin (1918-1958), the editor of France’s foremost film magazine, Cahiers du Cinéma, proclaimed Howard Hawks one of the [...]
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Film Studies, 2004 essay question Question: What do you understand by the term ‘Classical Hollywood narrative’? How far does the narrative of any 1 or 2 of the films screened in weeks 1-8 of the module adhere to the accepted module of ‘classical Hollywood narrative’’? Answer: For this assignment I will be studying [...]
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A textual analysis essay written for my English class, 2004. The passage is the infamous American Declaration of Independence, named in the passage as ‘The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America’. It is one of the most important and famous texts in history, documenting America’s decision to break free from British rule [...]
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Some essay questions regarding film for a Film Studies exam in 2005. ANALYSING FILM SCENES Clip 1. The first clip is from ‘Magnolia’ (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, USA, 1999). The audience know this is the opening of the film as it follows the opening credits. The clip opens with a non-diegetic narration, with the narrator’s [...]
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