1. Evaluative Essay:

2. Discuss the subject in detail
Establish criteria
Defend criteria with compelling evidence
If appropriate, make recommendations for improvements.

3. The Movie Review

4. Maybe another 200 cigarettes
Hot Tip #1: Show would have helped; coughing
would be better than some of this
don’t tell dialogue.
Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie
squeezed into three hours, about
how on December 7, 1941, the
Japanese staged a surprise attack
on an American love triangle. Its
centerpiece is 40 minutes of
redundant special effects,
surrounded by a love story of
stunning banality. The film has
been directed without grace,
vision, or originality, and
although you may walk out
quoting lines of dialog, it will not
be because you admire them.

5. Verbs
Positive Connotation
Negative Connotation
Adverbs
Positive Description
Negative Description
Adjectives
Positive Description
Negative Description

6. Hot Tip #2: Use Comparison/Contrast
V
S.
Compare to remakes of same film or to other review of same film

7. Compare/Contrast: One format to
another
VS.

8. Compare and Contrast: To Other
Movies in the Same Genre

9. Hot Tip#3: Don’t retell the entire story
SPOILER

10. Hot Tip #4: Use specialized language
when necessary
Cinematographer
Developing shot
Pan Storyboard
Blocking
Mise-en-scene
Fade
Tilt
Crosscut
Jump Cut

11. In your movie reviews, find examples of
descriptions that evoke a positive or
negative connotation. Also, notice how plot
summary is handled.
Make a list of your two best descriptions
from the positive review and your two best
from the negative review.
Be ready to explain why you chose the
examples that you did.

12. Verbs
F R Positive Connotation
Negative Connotation
o e
Adverbs
o v Positive Description
Negative Description
d i
Adjectives
e Positive Description
Negative Description
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13. Good Lead

14. Example of positive lead:
Inception (PG-13, 148 minutes). An
astonishingly original and inventive
thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio
as a men who infiltrates the minds
of others to steal secrets. Now he's
hired to implant one.
Roger Ebert

15. “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is a
horrible experience of unbearable length,
briefly punctuated by three or four
amusing moments.

16. Come up with a compelling good (or bad)
lead for this short-short:
http://www.filmsshort.com/short-short-films/

17. Support Your Opinion
BY
Establishing Criteria

18. Mood
How?

19. Lighting

20. D
C E
H V
A E
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C P
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21. Scenes

22. Universal Themes

23. Past accomplishments

24. Soundtrack
Plot Development
Past Accomplishments and Credits
Camera Angles

25. Dialogue

26. Special effects

27. PRACTICE REVIEW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980jV7
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