1/12/17 Sarah Ramos

Today's class set up the foundation for our major 3rd marking period projects. In the 3rd marking period we will have 2 major projects. One is nonacademic writing and one is academic writing. The nonacademic writing is our video film review. This is a new medium for us so we have been researching different editing techniques. However today's class focused more on the academic writing which is our senior paper. Because it is academic writing, we had to research scholarly potential academic lenses and how they would relate to film. The assignment on google classroom was to find 3 of these by Tuesday. In class I was able to find 2 that I could potentially write about, criminology and computer science. the film I suggested for criminology was "Catch Me If You Can" and for computer science I suggested "Imitation Game". I came up with this by scrolling through a list of majors until I found one interesting enough to write about. Then I searched for a film relating to this topic. After more research I was actually interested in the topics and I am considering both of them as a possibility for my senior paper.