Instructions
FINAL RESEARCH PROJECT
Description of Project (choose 1)
(a) You should select a director who was active (directed more than 3 movies) during the time period of 1950 – 2010. In your term paper, give me the basic details of the director’s life and career. Identify some of the director’s most important films. What honors and awards did the director receive? Provide a sampling of critical opinion about the director’s work (i.e. film reviews or articles). View at least two films by your director and comment on them. Do not summarize any plots. Write about how this director used the following in these films: Editing (montage), Sound and Music, Cinematography, Special Camera Work (steady cam, hand held, optical effects), Special Effects (this can include stunt work).
(b) Select one film of feature length made during the time period of 1970 – 2010. You are not to use a film already used by you, the instructor or the course content. In your term paper, you should present information about the making of the movie, about its success at the box office, about awards it was nominated for and/or received. Also present a sampling of the critical reaction to the film, from both the time of its release and later. Finally, you should watch the film and react to it. Do not summarize the plot. Assume that I’ve already seen the film. In addition, write about how this director used the following in these films: Editing (montage), Sound and Music, Cinematography, Special Camera Work (steady cam, hand held, optical effects), Special Effects (this can include stunt work).
(c) This option is more of a research option than the other two. You are to take a topic or item with in an element of film making and write a short research paper on its development. For example, if you want to write about camera development, take a more focused part of that broader topic such as the steady cam and use that as your subject. You do not need to get too technical in your paper. Some broader topics include: Camera Development, Projection and Viewing in Theaters, Film, Special Effects, Director Training, Actor Training, and Editing.
PROJECT STAGES
I. Project Proposal –
You must get the instructor’s approval of your final research project beforehand and no two students will be permitted to research and write about the same subject. First come, first served, so it is suggested that you decide what you would like to write about and reserve a topic via email as soon as possible. Once a topic is reserved you will then write an official project proposal (approx. 400 words) and submit it under the Assignments Tab. This proposal should indicate why you chose the topic, what you already know about the topic, and what you hope to learn as you research. (NOTE: If you turn in a term paper without getting the instructor’s approval of the subject, the instructor reserves the right to reject it as unacceptable.)
The following Project Topics have already been reserved by one of your peers and are no longer available:
Steven Spielberg
Billy WIlder
Spike Lee
Terry Gilliam
Tyler Perry
James Cameron
Quinten Tarantino
Martin Scorsese
Russo Brothers
Clint Eastwood
Pretty Woman/She’s all That
Crash (2004)
Tim Burton
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