Group ASSIGNMENT
2006:

Assignment | Jobs | Resources

ASSIGNMENT

Each group must write a narrative script for their section.  Aim at 15 minutes each --- which means about 1500 words, or six pages.  Each script must include:

•  TITLE and a THESIS about their decade or  decades or topic: that is, a central unifying ide
• Some sense of what was happening politically/socially, how that affected films
• A clearly articulated and organized set of themes/ ideas about their topic, informed by critical reading
• A list of important films to be included (with suggestions of images/clips to be used)

GROUP ROLES/ Jobs

You may want to split up inital responsibilites among group members.  I suggest the following  possibile possibitions:

• Bibliographer-- this person works with print sources, finding articles, reading stuff in encyclopedias, the xerox book etc., and compiling quotations to be used, events to be listed etc.  This should be comeone who understands how to do searchesin MLA and expnaded Academic.
• Historian -- this person works with all available sources to establish the historical background for the project
• Webster -- this person searches the web for images, clips, and web sites that are relevant to the project, storing a list of URLs. This person should be proficient in web-surfing and should be able to make a simple web page.

• Videographer -- this person works with the movies themselves, selecting movies to choose as well as clips.  This person should have both VHA and DVD machines,  and it would be great if they understand computers well enough to begin to learn Premier or other editing program.
• Storyboarder -- this  person sketches out the continuity of clips, stills, etc.
• Scriptwriter -- this person puts together all the bits and pieces that others have written in a coherent script
• Compiler -- this person actually edits together all the film pieces
  

TEXT RESOURCES

•     Xerox Book I—chronologies of SF Film (Cinema entry from SF Encyclopedia) 
•  Chonology Charts on-line
• Various guides to SF Film in my office
• Articles read for class  
• Bibliographies available on web site
• Articles found on Expnded Academic and MLA as well as additional books found in liberary

• Clips from Century of SF DVD
• My Video library
• Things found on web
• Other people's films

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