week 3

ANY FILM PG-13 CAN BE WRITTEN ABOUT 

Resources: University of Phoenix: Week Three Film List; Week Three Electronic Reserve Readings; Ch. 6 of Film; and Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® Tutorial

 

Watch your selected comedy, horror, or science fiction film, viewing one film from one of the three genres.

 

Create a 4- to 7-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation describing your selected genre and how your chosen film fits or does not fit the standard model of the genre.

 

Include the following:

 

• Description of your selected genre
• Description of the film’s following components:

 

• Summary of the film’s story
• Setting & lighting
• Makeup & costumes
• Music & sound

 

• Discussion of the film as either typical or atypical of its respective genre and how each film’s components support your view

 

Address fictional aspects of film as discussed in Ch. 6 of Filmby writing the following for inclusion on one Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® slide:

 

• Create your own genre movie character and write a goal for your character, a conflict he or she encounters, and how he or she resolves the conflict and achieves the goal.

 

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

 

Present your Week Three Genre Presentation.

 

• For Local Campus students, these are oral presentations accompanied by Microsoft^®PowerPoint^® presentations.
• For Online and Directed Study students, these are Microsoft^® PowerPoint^®presentations with notes.