Film Analysis Essay

    Film Analysis Essay Assignment
Write an essay of about 600-800 words (about 3 pages) on the following topic. Refer to the Short Film 2- Take me as I am, whoever I am; Minimalist- Less is Now and pick 1 or 2 to write your analysis.
Using as many specific details as possible concerning the various elements of film that weve discussed cinematography, mise-en-scene, movement, editing, sound, acting. Naturally, youll want to observe all the rules of good writing that is, of grammar, organization, logic, and most importantly- engaging with the analysis than summarizing the film plot.Please read the prompt below and address it in your thesis and topic sentences.
Topic: How do the specific cinematic techniques or elements of a film support the message or point it is making? As much as possible, choose the films and point out techniques in such a way as to make some general point about the way(s) in which a film exposes its themes.
The following tips for writing your Midterm/Final are in ascending order of importance, beginning with basic mechanical issues and ending with very broad points concerning content.
Mechanics
For any formal essay, you should follow the formatting guidelines of the profession style in the field in this case MLA style.  That means you should have

a heading (your name, the course,
a header (your last name & the page number, which you can add using functions under the Insert tab in your wordprocessing program), and
an original, relevant title.
Use italics for the title of any featurelength film.  

Grammar
In discussing any work of art, including a film, you should use the present tense, not the past.

As an upperlevel English course, this one assumes that you have a general grip on basic organizational concepts (paragraphing, essay structure),
grammatical concepts (sentence 2 structure, agreement, modifier placement, parallelism, &c.), and punctuation. 

Style
In all of your writing, you should strive to write concisely. 
As for specific wordiness problems associated with writing about film/literature, here are a few tips:

Avoid references to yourself or your thoughts/opinions just state them directly.
Avoid references to your writing (Im going to discuss) or your essay (This essay is about).
Avoid references to your reader;  avoid the 2ndperson pronoun (you, your) altogether.
Minimize references to the artists involved in the creation of specific techniques.  Its fine to name someone once (e.g., the director, the cinematographer, or the scriptwriter) if you happen to know who that person is.  But dont constantly say things like, In this scene the director uses lighting to show.
Avoid references to the intentions of the film or its makers, like The movie is trying to make the point that.  Again, just state those points directly, e.g., The highcontrast lighting supports the theme of the dark side of human nature.
Avoid references to the films audience, e.g., The viewer notices that.
In all the above cases, just state your points directly e.g., The highcontrast lighting in this scene symbolizes or The expressionist style underscores the liberal message that

Content
Dont just make broad generalizations about how great, how ineffective, how confusing, the techniques are in the films that youre using as examples.  Instead, discuss in detail (while of course writing concisely) how the technique delivers its effect.
Finally and probably most importantly:  You should have a central idea, a thesis, for the whole essay an argument that is original, complex, relevant, specific, and debatable.  Thus, instead of just sort of parroting the question and saying something obvious like, The films use a variety of cinematic techniques to create meaning, you should try to narrow the focus to something specific perhaps some pattern that you noticed from week to week, or some aspect of film that you found yourself particularly interested in as we went along.