Critiquing: 3 Simple questions for 2 Scripts

1. What was their research question?

2. What areas did they choose to focus on in their comparisons?

3. How did they incorporate sources both primary and secondary into their doc.

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JASON TORRES:

1. He investigates the portrayal of individual and hegemonic powers in international cinema

2. He focuses on Color and Lighting.

3. For {primary} sources, he uses actual scenes, music, and settings of the two movies he researches. For example, he shows the scene "Tsotsi, LS of village as TSOTSI carries the shopping bag to the orphan children"as evidence for his research, also using the actual village in Tsotsi as his backdrop in one part of his documentary. For {secondary} sources, he incorporates other opinions into his documentary in order to reinforce his point: "ROBERT RODRIGUEZ (V.O.): We had to isolate the actors from the background in order to create that very stark black and white."

CARMEN (Sandiego?)

1. She investigates the significance of political thrillers in the role of society's opinion of politics in the government during the Cold War era. "to make us question our own political institutions and to shed light on the politics of the time period."

2. She focuses on Camera Work, Editing, and at time Acting.

3. For {primary} sources, she interviews the director of on of the movies she was researching "Gavras (translated to English from French): Besides the fact that everything in the film really happened, I think this kind of thing has happened everywhere.." For {secondary} sources, she incorporates the information she gets from secondary sources into her narrative. "1. http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/polithrillers1.jsp  This site gave me insight into what a political thriller is and the history behind the genre."

Familial Conflicts: Research and Compare.

1. Research Topic and Question

2. Films that you plan to use in your analysis

3. 3 areas to focus on in comparison-

• Each Topic should have a t-chart that includes specific examples from the film.

1. The portrayal of familial conflicts pertaining to the role and responsibilities of parents.

2. The four movies I chose are respectively, two Korean movies and two Japanese movies. 

• Punchlady, a Korean movie surrounding a family subjected to domestic abuse by a boxing father, where the mother decides to stand up and face her husband in a boxing match to stop the abuse once and for all. 
• A Family (Gajok), a Korean movie centering around a pickpocket daughter and how she reconnects with her father and brother.
• Nobody Knows, a Japanese movie that centers around a mother and her abandoned children.
• Marathon, a Japanese movie where an autistic boy guided by his mother and his coach in training for a marathon.

3. I will be looking at Camera Movement, Sound, and Dialogue.