Blogs Return & Formal Requirements 11/30/16 Kirk Brown

Well to start off the class the announcement was made that blogs are returning being the first in the alphabet i had the honor of making the first one of the marking period. We briefly went over it but the main thing that was important about the announcement is that blogs published after 10 pm will lose one point of the overall grade, and blogs published after midnight would lose two points from the over all grade. So the focus of today's class was to understand the formal requirements of a strong film review.

We then got this list:
1. Deliberately titled article
2. Credit relevant artists
3. Provide necessary context
4. Summarize plot
5. Evaluate content
6. Evaluate Meaning/Theme
7. Conclude
we only covered the first 3 in class

         1. Deliberately title article
we said a title should be an introduction to the tone/argument/ purpose of the review. Even though it is the first thing seen it should be the last thing you write, A bit ironic if i do say so myself.
An Example we had was

 ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Unleashes J.K. Rowling’s Magic on Old New York

A reference to the title fantastic beast because beasts are usually on leashes, clever word play.

Reference to the fantasy genre of books that J.K. Rowling is know to write such as harry potter and also fantastic beasts. It takes the word and applies it in different ways not just fantasy magic, Movie magic as well. This give the reader a clear view of the reviewers point of view on the specific film. 

Name dropping J.K Rowling gives fans of the Harry Potter series ,or even just people who are aware of the name, instant attention to the movie and review. As well as crediting the author herself for the original work.
                 Which leads to the the second on the list

          2. Credit relevant artists
this is who you want to credit.

Director, Actor(s) or actress(es), Screenwriters, Original authors, animators, musical producers/supervisors, etc.

There are two main ways to go about citing number one is just explicit;y saying it in a sentence of your review by talking about them and their role in the movie making process. The other being parenthetical when you state the the character or process and then credit them in parentheses such as Thor(Chris Hemsworth)

The third topic on the list was the last one that we went over for the day.

     3. Provide necessary context
 this one is background based such as information that is helpful to understand the the movie as a whole product such as if it is part of a series containing 2 or 3 or maybe even 8 movies (Fast and furious franchise)
this could also include  The circumstances of production like what happened among cast and crew, or current events around the movies release that have to do with the cast such as a passing of a cast member.

           

We used this article, this is Kada's pick for a well written movie review. Right away if you look at the picture two things draw attention the picture of Matt Damon and the title. first the title it isn't something simple like 'The Martian review'  that gives no context but this title gives a nice reference to the content of the plot of the movie. this is a good example of a strong title. And the picture catches the eye of the reader and the caption is an example of the second point. Its credits Matt Damon as the star of the movie. That was what we did today tomorrow we are going to discuss the ways our articles a accomplish the first 3 points.