Animation

Write at least ONE short essay on films of your choice. In Focus 1 will look at animated films, and In Focus 2 will analyze blockbuster/franchise films.

For each short (1000 word minimum) essay, you will choose a film within the assigned genre and analyze its cinematic form and content using the skills in film analysis you’ve developed in our class.

This is your chance to demonstrate your knowledge of film terms (be sure to use specific and accurate terminology to describe the film elements you analyze) and your ability to apply your critical lens and analyze film. You can reference the assigned Film Experience chapter for that week, along with additional readings if required.

Guidelines:

Choose (at least) one film/video in the required genre.

Have an introduction, a clear argument, evidence, and analysis.

1000-word minimum.

Animation:

How does this film used the medium of animation in unique ways? How does it interact with the history of the form?

How do the themes of race, gender, sexuality, nation and/or colonialism that we have been discussing appear in this film?

What does this film mean? How does it use its form (color, animation style, composition, plot, etc) to create those meanings?

Choose a film within the assigned genre and analyze its cinematic form and content using the skills in film analysis you’ve developed in our class.