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Advanced Film Scene Analysis Guide

The document provides guidelines for writing an extended film scene analysis as part of an assignment for an Advanced Composition course. Students are instructed to select a significant scene from their chosen film that is at least 5 minutes long and analyze visual elements like camera angles, lighting, settings, dialogue, costumes, expressions and representations of culture. The analysis should demonstrate how the scene relates to the overall film and central argument of the student's paper. It must include a short dialogue example, discussion of when the scene occurs, and one image from the film.

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Advanced Film Scene Analysis Guide

The document provides guidelines for writing an extended film scene analysis as part of an assignment for an Advanced Composition course. Students are instructed to select a significant scene from their chosen film that is at least 5 minutes long and analyze visual elements like camera angles, lighting, settings, dialogue, costumes, expressions and representations of culture. The analysis should demonstrate how the scene relates to the overall film and central argument of the student's paper. It must include a short dialogue example, discussion of when the scene occurs, and one image from the film.

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Dr.

Joyce Middleton
Engl. 3810: Advanced Composition
Assignment: Writing an Extended Film Scene Analysis
Required Length: a minimum of five paragraphs (or about two full pages—include these pages within
your total 5-7 page count for this short film paper assignment)

There are many different ways to write a film scene analysis. For this writing assignment, you will write
what I call an “extended” scene analysis. Select a significant scene that will provoke your reader to think
about the central argument in your paper. In addition to describing the action in the scene, you should
analyze as many visual elements as you can from your scene: camera angles, lighting, setting, dialogue
(required), clothing, facial expressions, music and other sounds, representations of cultures, gender,
race, ethnicity, or class. Be sure to talk about when your scene occurs in the film (you can simply cite a
DVD chapter title and number for this). Anything that you write about your scene must support the
central argument in your paper (which is your thesis). Your scene shouldn’t be more than five minutes,
but if you choose a longer scene, then you should write more than five paragraphs.

Here are some specific guidelines for writing this extended scene analysis:

(1) Your writing should discuss both the scene and its relevance, as you see it, to the entire film.

(2) Your analysis should include at least one short example of dialogue from characters in the film.

(3) Select a scene that will enable you to demonstrate your new learning about analyzing films as
rhetorical texts (beyond simple opinions and entertainment).

(4) Be sure to read at least three film reviews about your selected film title (one of these should disagree
with your reading of the film). Feel free to quote these film critics in your paper.

(5) Your scene analysis should “flow” with the general writing in your paper (these 5 paragraphs should
be included in your total page count—you do not have to write a separate paper for this assignment).

(6) Your extended scene analysis must include one image from your film. Your image in your paper does
not have to be taken from your scene that you are analyzing (in fact, it may be difficult to find an image
for your specific scene). But feel free to include the image that illustrates your scene analysis in the
paper if you can download it.

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