Paper Requirements for Art Appreciation Paper 3
Write a film review.

IF YOU COPY OR QUOTE SOMEONE ELSES FILM REVIEW OR WORK WITHOUT A CITATION YOU WILL FAIL THE ENTIRE CLASS

This is a 2 to 3 page paper.  In this paper you will write about one of the works of art that we have studied so far.

(50 points ) The quality of thought. The goal of this paper is to

  • pretend you are a film reviewer for a newspaper.
  • write a film review in which you decide whether you hated or liked the film we just watched in class.
  • You may want to analyze the work using the three categories we regularly use in class: formal, iconographic and contextual analysis or you may want to look at
  • A checklist for analyzing movies
  • The 'Grammar' of Television and Film
    • (10 points) Spelling and Grammar.
  • Check the mechanics of your paper.  Grammar, spelling and punctuation count.  If you turn in a paper with run on sentences, poor punctuation, more than 5 spelling errors, or if you misspell the name of a major character or title, you will be marked down a full letter grade.
    • (10 points) Requirements (If any of these requirements are left out or omitted your grade will be affected substantially.)
  • The paper must be a minimum of two pages in length and  three pages maximum.
  • Paper must be double spaced and typed. The largest font size you may use is 12 point.
  • Paper must have a heading. Cover page or folder is unacceptable.
  • All titles of works should be italicized or bracketed by quotation marks.
  • Where appropriate, make sure you include the full artist/authors name, titles, and dates of any works mentioned in your essay.
  • You may use additional sources please make sure to include a bibliography and use parenthetical citations.  Bibliography and citations must be in standard MLA or APA form.
  • IF YOU COPY OR QUOTE SOMEONE ELSE'S FILM REVIEW OR WORK WITHOUT A CITATION YOU WILL FAIL THE ENTIRE CLASS
  • Paper must be stapled.  If the paper is paper clipped or unstapled or in a folder I will turn the paper back to you ungraded.
  • If you plagiarize you will have a zero averaged into your overall grade.
  • You should also have it proof read by someone else other than yourself: a friend, a teacher or by a tutor over at the Library.
  • Late Work
  • Late work will be accepted, however, for every calendar day that the assignment is late it will be marked down a full letter grade.
  • All work is due at the beginning of the class on the day it is due.
  • If you are late to class the work will late and marked down a full letter grade.
  • You may not e-mail assignments to me unless we have discussed it and I have given you permission in advance of the due date.
    • (30 points) The structure: