I don't know where to start and I must have half this paper done by this Wednesday. Below are the instructions.
Assignment 1: Popular and Critical Reviews
You are a reporter for the local blog, and you have been assigned to cover the local senior drama class's experiment of developing a 30-minute video adaptation of Hairspray as a NON-MUSICAL. You decided to write the article as a review of the high school production, but you are unsure of the structure and elements that make up a quality critical review of a movie.
You decide to research the Internet, school library, and other media to find various sources and samples of film reviews and scholarly critiques before you start the project.
Write a 2 page paper on what you found about writing a quality film review and scholarly critique. Your paper should address the following:
Define what is meant by popular review and a scholarly critique of a film. Identify how they are different and/or similar. Provide a sample of a popular review and your academic critique of it. (1/2 page)
Discuss the analyses of the film components. Explain how the analyses of film components (e.g., photography, mise en scene, story, editing, sound, acting, etc.) are treated in a popular review and a scholarly critique. (1/2 page) What should be in any review and what makes a fair one? (1/2 ish)
How should reviewers be treated by audiences do you think? Do people listen? Why or why not? Is a review something to consider anyway if all we want is to forget our troubles for a while? Does a review make a good movie bad or vice versa? How do deal with movie reviews? for the school newspaper. The rest up to another page or two.