I have posted both this week's chapter/film analysis React to The Purple Rose of Cairo and Chapter One, along with this week's Movie Review #1, the first of twelve 100-Word Weekly Movie Reviews in the discussion forums. The discussion will be due next Monday and the movie review due on Wednesday. Future analyses will be assigned as we cover topics in class (sometimes online, sometime for class), but you will be expected to post one review per every week following. Here is the criteria as stated in the first post:
You will need to "publish" your review on the external website of the Internet Movie Database (IMDB--see below), so include the link with your review (or embed your review as I demonstrate below in someone's review of the short film "Spamku," which is included in your textbook DVD.) I have chosen IMDB as the site for reviews because it has the largest catalog of films. If you found it somewhere, it is likely noted on IMDB (If not, you can add it). You need to register with IMDB before posting reviews, but it is short and free.
If you are struggling with what to write, read this simple guideline, read some professional reviews (Rotten Tomatoes is one of the best places to find multiple critics , like Roger Ebert, A.O. Scott and Bob Mondello, from various publications), or simply look to your peers at IMDB for comparison. Although there is no specific criteria other than the word count for your reviews, see this as an avenue to practice your newfound cinematic language.
You can access these discussions in various locations, including the "Course" main page, the respective "Lesson" folder where the discussion appears, as well as the "Communicate" page.
Also be thinking about what you might consider to be your "Favorite Movie" for an upcoming assignment.
