Asynchronous Academy

Film Analysis

Department
ENGLISH

Use your goals from the last assignment to analyze how they are executed in a professionally-produced version of your screenplay. Having read your screenplay and thought carefully about what you can learn from it, it's time to watch what professionals did with the same material.

Assignment

  1. Watch a professionally-produced version of your screenplay. Listen carefully to the way words are translated from the page into speaking, and consider how you can incorporate what you've learned into your work.
  2. Identify the target audience for the film. How did the movie target them? Consider elements such as setting, actors, music, etc.
  3. For each of the steps in the Hero’s Journey, identify:
    • A way that your goal technique was implemented.
    • What the movie did well/poorly. Identify things that you could try to implement (or avoid) in your next video project.
    • If a Hero’s Journey step was skipped in the screenplay/movie, why do you think that was?
  4. How would you adapt the same screenplay for a different audience? Make a list of 5-10 elements you would like to include in your next assignment.

Assessment

Pre-Submission

Before you submit, please complete the Pre-Submission Self-Assessment.

What to Turn In

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    Pre-Submission Self-Assessment Google Doc
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    Google Doc with:

    • 1–2 paragraphs describing the target audience of the film version and supporting clues
    • Analysis of 2 items at each step of the Hero’s Journey
    • Adaptation goals identifying a new audience and proposed changes

Learning Goals

We are learning to:

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    Analyze how adaptation across media impacts message and intended audience.

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    Identify perspectives and biases in a media text and evaluate how they are communicated.

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    Evaluate professional media using personal goals as a lens.

Success Criteria

I can:

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    Analyze how a screenplay is adapted for a specific audience.

    Expectations Covered: C2.7, C2.6
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    Evaluate a film’s techniques using my personal goals.

    Expectations Covered: C3.1, C3.2
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    Plan a creative adaptation for a new audience.

    Expectations Covered: C2.6, C2.7

Rubric

Category Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1
Knowledge & Understanding
Understanding how media texts are created for specific audiences and purposes
 Demonstrates thorough and insightful understanding of how media texts are created for specific audiences and purposes. Demonstrates considerable understanding of how media texts are created for specific audiences and purposes. Demonstrates some understanding of how media texts are created for specific audiences and purposes. Demonstrates limited understanding of how media texts are created for specific audiences and purposes.
Thinking
Analysis of the film’s perspective and its adaptation from the screenplay
 Provides a perceptive and insightful analysis of the film's perspective and its adaptation from the screenplay. Provides a clear and logical analysis of the film's perspective and its adaptation from the screenplay. Provides some analysis of the film's perspective and its adaptation from the screenplay. Provides a limited analysis of the film's perspective and its adaptation from the screenplay.
Application
Application of personal learning goals to film analysis
 Applies personal learning goals to the analysis of the film with a high degree of effectiveness. Applies personal learning goals to the analysis of the film with considerable effectiveness. Applies personal learning goals to the analysis of the film with some effectiveness. Applies personal learning goals to the analysis of the film with limited effectiveness.
Communication
Clarity, organization, and conventions in written analysis
 Expresses ideas and analysis in writing with a high degree of clarity, organization, and adherence to conventions. Expresses ideas and analysis in writing with considerable clarity, organization, and adherence to conventions. Expresses ideas and analysis in writing with some clarity, organization, and adherence to conventions. Expresses ideas and analysis in writing with limited clarity, organization, and adherence to conventions.
Knowledge & Understanding
Criteria: Understanding how media texts are created for specific audiences and purposes
Level 4

Demonstrates thorough and insightful understanding of how media texts are created for specific audiences and purposes.

Level 3

Demonstrates considerable understanding of how media texts are created for specific audiences and purposes.

Level 2

Demonstrates some understanding of how media texts are created for specific audiences and purposes.

Level 1

Demonstrates limited understanding of how media texts are created for specific audiences and purposes.

Thinking
Criteria: Analysis of the film’s perspective and its adaptation from the screenplay
Level 4

Provides a perceptive and insightful analysis of the film's perspective and its adaptation from the screenplay.

Level 3

Provides a clear and logical analysis of the film's perspective and its adaptation from the screenplay.

Level 2

Provides some analysis of the film's perspective and its adaptation from the screenplay.

Level 1

Provides a limited analysis of the film's perspective and its adaptation from the screenplay.

Application
Criteria: Application of personal learning goals to film analysis
Level 4

Applies personal learning goals to the analysis of the film with a high degree of effectiveness.

Level 3

Applies personal learning goals to the analysis of the film with considerable effectiveness.

Level 2

Applies personal learning goals to the analysis of the film with some effectiveness.

Level 1

Applies personal learning goals to the analysis of the film with limited effectiveness.

Communication
Criteria: Clarity, organization, and conventions in written analysis
Level 4

Expresses ideas and analysis in writing with a high degree of clarity, organization, and adherence to conventions.

Level 3

Expresses ideas and analysis in writing with considerable clarity, organization, and adherence to conventions.

Level 2

Expresses ideas and analysis in writing with some clarity, organization, and adherence to conventions.

Level 1

Expresses ideas and analysis in writing with limited clarity, organization, and adherence to conventions.