ISU- full details and film list
November 10th, 2008 by 
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ENG4U
Independent Study:
Telling Stories in the 21st Century
What does it mean to tell stories here and now? What kinds of stories are we telling? Why are we telling them? How are we telling them?
The purpose of your Independent Study is to consider the answer to these questions and others as you explore a story of our time, a story told through film.
Trailers for most of the movies can be found here
The films on this list are all considered to be postmodern in some way- either because of the stories they tell, or the way they tell them or a combination of both. They also explore themes we have visited and revisited in our course.
Part 1: Choose a film from the list. by: December 2, 2008
Watch the film. by Dec 7, 2008
Part 2: Conference with Ms. Parrish to develop a research plan
Dec 8 -12
*watch the film*
Part 3: Using the advice given to you in your conference, locate secondary source material on 5 different aspects of your film
- genre*** (required)
- postmodern film *** required
- director
- cast
- sound
- setting
- historical background (if relevant)
- themes
- images
- etc.
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and … Create an annotated bibliography of this material.
This should be one – two pages long, maximum, and should contain your sources, properly documented with MLA formatting, and a brief summary.
- due January 6
Part 4: watch, watch, watch. Take notes, as you do, on the style and content of the film. Familiarize yourself with the language of film. Ask for help. Ask questions. These notes will be evaluated for thoroughness & demonstration of understanding of content and style.
(ongoing) – due January 7 or 12 (you earn the 2nd due date)
Part 5: Director’s Commentary
Choose an 8 – 10 minute section of your film or video game or television series and write a “director’s commentary” for it. Your commentary should mention specific film/animation techniques from your media work, but, as with the Hamlet assignment, should be directed towards communicating what is both thematically important about the scene you’ve chosen, and how it is an example of contemporary (postmodern) story telling.
This commentary should not be a formal piece of writing (which doesn’t mean you don’t put effort into it.) Imagine you are the director of the media work. What kind of person do you imagine him to be? How would she talk? Length 1000-1200 words.
- due Jan 19-21, your choice.
Evaluation:
Term Marks
Conference: 20 marks, Media Studies
Bibliography: 20 marks, Writing/Media Studies
Notes: 40 marks, Media Studies
Summative Mark
Director’s Commentary 40 Marks- writing, media studies
= 10 % of summative
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November 28th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I choose “Terminator 2″ for my ISU.
November 28th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
I choose “Edward Scissorhands” for my ISU.
November 28th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
IGNORE PREVIOUS COMMENT.Sorry,a mistake was made. I choose the film “Fight Club” for my ISU.
November 29th, 2008 at 12:10 am
i choose Kill Bill Vol 1 for my ISU .
November 29th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I choose the film “Magnolia” for my ISU
November 29th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Babel
November 29th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
I’d like to do my ISU on American Beauty.
November 30th, 2008 at 12:01 am
I choose “GhostDog: the Way of the Samurai” for my ISU.:)
November 30th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I want to do “The Fall” for my ISU!
November 30th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Ed Wood
November 30th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Memento
November 30th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
I would like to do “The English Patient”.
December 1st, 2008 at 12:50 am
cube
December 1st, 2008 at 4:49 pm
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
December 1st, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Stranger Than Fiction
December 1st, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Please disregard my first message. I would like to do my ISU on “The Craddle will Rock” instead. Thankyou.
December 1st, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Sin City
is my pick for the ISU
December 1st, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Crash
December 1st, 2008 at 11:32 pm
I pick “The Hours”
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:16 am
The ring
December 2nd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
I pick the Truman Show
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:39 pm
fight club(1999
)by David fincher
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:11 am
I would like to do The Sweet Hereafter by Atom Egoyan for my ISU project.
December 4th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
blade runner, I choose you!
December 4th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
I choose Crash on November 28th and posted it before Sabahs, but for some reason my post is deleted. It already did show before that I posted it..and now its gone. I dont know what to do because i’ve already started watching and taking notes from the movie.
December 4th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
afsar if you can kindly change your movie since ive already started on it..it would be deeply appreciated=)
December 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Afsar and Kareena, I will be in contact with you both invidually to solve this problem. I see your original post, Kareena, but I don’t know why the computer decided to hold it in moderation and not publish it. This is the first that I’m aware of the situation. I’ll be in touch.
December 4th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
sorry no…mistake
im watching
SCREAM!!!
sry abt that
December 4th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
for my isu i have decided to do Adaptation
December 5th, 2008 at 12:00 am
cube
December 5th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
my mistake for choosing the same one as Humarya, so im going to do my isu on “the ring”
December 5th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
nvmm again im going to do Requiem for a Dream