Movie Review and User Comment
| Grade | Work Samples |
|---|---|
| End of Stage 5 (end of Year 10) | |
| Grade B | Ariel |
| Grade C | Rania |
Description of activity
Students will view a popular movie of their own choosing and then complete the following:
- Visit the website www.imdb.com and read the range of reviews and user comments for their chosen movie.
- Use the reviews on the website as a guide to write their own review of their chosen film for a teenage magazine. The review should reflect their target audience.
- Read a range of 'user comments' on their chosen movie on the website and then write their own user comment for the website. (Students may wish to post this on the website.) Submit a hard copy of both their review and their user comment.
Context
Students have been studying how film techniques are used to shape meaning, in the context of popular movies. They have discussed their personal responses to popular movies, and have engaged with the language of persuasion and personal opinion in movie promotional material, reviews and user comments.
Areas for Assessment
Outcomes
A student:
- responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure
- uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing
- selects, uses, describes and explains how different technologies affect and shape meaning.
Criteria for assessing learning
In this task you will be assessed on how well you:
- explain your personal responses to, and analysis of, film
- demonstrate knowledge of the conventions of writing in particular forms for particular audiences and purposes
- show understanding of different points of view
- demonstrate awareness of the ways in which modern technologies are used to inform, persuade and entertain.