Instructions for Analysis_Essay 5 Jaws
Film 5 Analysis include a word count
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Use the following prompts in a minimum of 750 words using complete sentences to write an analysis essay. Give explanations WITH EXAMPLES to help describe all details. You must incorporate and highlight at least 10 terms of the course from the current chapter.
1. Consider these three of the four approaches to studying film history: the technological approach, the economic approach, and film as social history. Why do you think this film should be considered from the perspective of any one of these three approaches? What are the most significant accomplishments of this film from a historical/social or technological or economic perspective? Justify your choice with a brief analysis. Refer to your book or the PowerPoint.
2. What influences from any other film, movement or director do you see in Jaws?
3. The Aesthetic approach requires that a work of art, in this case a film, fulfill a set of criteria. Develop your own criteria of what makes a film great, at least 5 criteria; discuss this film in terms of those criteria. What aspects of this film fit in with your given criteria and what could be changed or added to this film to make it a better film, by your standards?
Here’s a sample criteria list from a restaurant evaluation to help you think of your film criteria. Look at the chapters and their keywords to develop your film specific criteria. This is simply a sample not a model for film:
The Forbes Four and Five Star Restaurant Incognito Service Evaluation
The restaurant service evaluation looks at the following areas:
♦ Reservations
♦ Arrival
♦ Efficiency and Timing
♦ Food Quality
♦ Technical proficiency and knowledge of food and beverage service
♦ Personalized Service
♦ Pace of Meal
♦ Departure
Chapter 10 Keywords
Film history
Aesthetic approach
Technological approach
Economic approach
Social history
Precinema
Photograph
Camera obscura
Negative
Series photography
Revolver photographicque
Magic lantern
Zoopraxiscope
Fusil photographique
Kinetograph
Kinetoscope
Black Maria
Silent film
German expressionism
French Avant-Garde cinema
Soviet Montage
Classical Hollywood
Italian Neorealism
French New Wave
Free Cinema Movement
Dogme 95
Nubero Bagu
Postwar China Filmmaking
New American Cinema
