Critical response assignment
Once you have these under your belt, you’ll move to the next step and write a critical response. This will be like a film review, but with the added step of consulting and responding to other film reviews. For this, you will 1) generate your own review, 2) ONLY THEN consult a review or reviews written by professional movie critics, and 3) RESPOND to that or those critics, evaluating the validity of their critique as compared to yours through agreement and/or disagreement on three points (aspects of filmmaking, specific scenes, and/or points where you and the critic agree or disagree—these can be a combination). Through doing this, you will demonstrate your ability to enter into the critical conversation and demonstrate facility with the terminology and concepts of film analysis.
