This presentations explains the form and content of the Response Questions for Intro to Film

1. What can writing about film can do for you?

2. What can writing about film can do for us?
Understand your own response better

3. What can writing about film can do for us?
Understand your own response better
Explain or introduce something about a
movie, filmmaker or a group of movies

4. What can writing about film can do for us?
Understand your own response better
Explain or introduce something about a
movie, filmmaker or a group of movies
Make comparisons and contrasts between
films

5. What can writing about film can do for us?
Understand your own response better
Explain or introduce something about a
movie, filmmaker or a group of movies
Make comparisons and contrasts between
films
Make connections between a film and other
areas of culture that produce it

6. “Perhaps more than any other arts and
entertainment, the movies frequently elicit a strong
emotional or intellectual reaction.”

7. “Perhaps more than any other arts and
entertainment, the movies frequently elicit a strong
emotional or intellectual reaction.”
“Analyzing our reactions to themes, characters or
images…can be a way not only of understanding a
movie better but also of understanding better how
we view the world and the cultures we live in.”
Timothy Corrigan~

8. Critical Analysis
Assume your audience or reader is familiar with the
film you are writing about, this means there is no
need to give a full plot summary.

9. Each Response Question is a mini-critical analysis
that asks you to focus your response by providing
evidence to support a claim.

10. Each Response Question is a mini-critical analysis
that asks you to focus your response by providing
evidence to support a claim.
It’s not about whether you liked or disliked a film.
The Response Questions allow you to analyze a
particular element in a film and write about it from a
objective, third person, point of view.
Forget about terms like GOOD/BAD or
LIKED/DISLIKED

11. Taking notes is an essential component of writing a
critical analysis.

12. Taking notes is an essential component of writing a
critical analysis.
Consider which question you wish to answer and
then take notes.

13. Taking notes is an essential component of writing a
critical analysis.
Consider which question you wish to answer and
then take notes.
for example: In what ways might the character of Joe
Gillis be considered an Anti-hero?

14. First consider the definition of an anti-hero
anti-hero
protag. who lacks traditional heroic attributes
(courage, idealism, etc.)
instead has opposite attributes (ineptness,
stupidity, dishonesty, etc.)
An anti-hero acts heroically, yet in an
underhanded and deceitful way

15. Joe is an anti-hero because

16. Joe is an anti-hero because
He lies to Norma

17. Joe is an anti-hero because
He lies to Norma
He uses Norma for
the security and
material
possessions she
gives him

18. Joe is an anti-hero because
He lies to Norma
He uses Norma for
the security and
material
possessions she
gives him
He goes after his
friend’s fiancé.

19. Joe is an anti-hero because
He lies to Norma
He uses Norma for
the security and
material
possessions she
gives him
He goes after his
friend’s fiancé.
He lies to Betty
about his situation
with Norma

20. As you begin to construct your Response Paper
it is important to use proper format.

21. As you begin to construct your Response Paper
it is important to use proper format.
Type the question you are answering
completely at the top of the page and begin
your response in a new paragraph

22. Be specific in the first sentence of your response
Do not begin with a
vague sentence like,
“Joe Gillis is an anti-
hero for many
reasons.”
Your introduction
should be strong
and set up your
response.

23. In what ways might the character of Joe Gillis be
considered an Anti-hero?
Unlike the prototypical hero or good guy Joe
Gillis embodies the quintessential characteristics of
an anti-hero.

24. Things to remember

25. Things to remember
Put the title of the film in
italics and capitalize the
first letter of each word.

26. Things to remember
Put the title of the film in
italics and capitalize the
first letter of each word.
Always double space
your word document.

27. Things to remember
Put the title of the film in
italics and capitalize the
first letter of each word.
Always double space
your word document.
Type the question you
are answering at the top
of the page

28. Things to remember
Put the title of the film in
italics and capitalize the
first letter of each word.
Always double space
your word document.
Type the question you
are answering at the top
of the page
Take notes during the
movie.

29. Things to remember
Put the title of the film in
italics and capitalize the
first letter of each word.
Always double space
your word document.
Type the question you
are answering at the top
of the page
Take notes during the
movie.
Use the film grammar
used in the lectures and
the textbook.

30. Things to remember
Put the title of the film in
italics and capitalize the
first letter of each word.
Always double space
your word document.
Type the question you
are answering at the top
of the page
Take notes during the
movie.
Use the film grammar
used in the lectures and
the textbook.
Write in the 3rd
person
and avoid including
opinions

31. Finally!
Write your paper in
the third person and
avoid using
pronouns, like “you”
and “I’

32. Finally!
Write your paper in
the third person and
avoid using
pronouns, like “you”
and “I’
Please proof read
your paper before
submitting it and
make sure you are
following the format
explained in the
writing packet