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KPB113 Assessment 1 – Essay #1 Analysis of Screen Texts Task overview Assessment name

Essay #1: Analysis of Screen Texts

Task description

Screen texts generate meaning for audiences through a combination of many elements. For this assessment you will choose two screen texts from a list below. You will critique these screen texts by comparing and contrasting them through analysis of key textual elements.

Due Date

Friday 24 April 2020 (Fri after mid-sem break), before 11:59 pm via Blackboard.

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Length

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1500 words with + / – 10% leeway. That is: 1350 min words to 1650 max words In-text citations and quotes are included in the word count. References List and Title Page are excluded from the word count. Include the total word count on your essay’s Title Page.

Weighting

40%

Individual or Group

Individual

Learning outcomes measured

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Demonstrate a broad knowledge of film and television text forms, the industries that produce these texts and the audiences that consume them. Apply textual analysis techniques to evaluate and theorise about the ways in which film and television texts communicate and construct meaning. Use written language to effectively communicate interpretations of film and TV texts to an audience.

Task Instructions What you need to do

1.

Choose any TWO (2) screen texts from the list below:

Hollywood Films • Casablanca (1942) • Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) • Gravity (2013) • La La Land (2016) • Beauty and the Beast (2017) • Wonder Woman (2017) • Finding Dory (2016) • Zootopia (2016)

Independent Films • My Own Private Idaho (2001) • Memento (2000) • Pulp Fiction (1994) • Frances Ha (2013) • Last Cab to Darwin (2015) • Still Alice (2014) • Donnie Darko (2001)

TV Series • The Wire (2002 – 2008) • Orange is the New Black (2013 – 2019) • Top of the Lake (2013 – present) • Game of Thrones (2011 – 2019) All of these texts are available using your QUT student login through one of the following

– Kanopy and/or ClickView and/or EduTV and/or the QUT Library KPB113 – Assessment 1 – Essay #1 – Analysis of Screen Texts

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Write a critique of your chosen screen texts by comparing and contrasting them through an analysis of the following elements • • • • • •

Production context Narrative Mise-en-Scene Editing Genre Sound (optional)

You do not have to cover ALL these elements, but you must pick AT LEAST two (2) elements through which to analyse your chosen screen texts. Refer to the CRA below for more on for how these elements are assessed.

Submission Information What you need to submit

What you need to submit: • Essay should be written in formal, academic style. Refer to guidelines in QUT cite|write for more details. • Title page includes assessment title, the option(s) you have chosen, your name, student number, unit code, word count • Essay should be formatted as follows: Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing. • Submit your essay as a Word document (not PDF or .pages) • You need to use APA referencing style. Ensure you are consistent. Include intext citations and a corresponding reference list – refer to QUT cite|write for more details. • Check for plagiarism – use the Blackboard Submission (SafeAssign) tool. • Submit via Blackboard.

Resources required to complete this assessment task • Guide to writing an analytical essay • QUT cite|APA guide • Blackboard Assignment Tipsheet • SafeAssign Tipsheet (to detect incorrect citation & plagiarism)

Extension Requests: if you do need to request an extension save yourself valuable time. Do not contact your Unit Coordinator or your tutor directly. They cannot grant extension requests. You need to apply through HiQ. The link for this is the very first thing you see on the assessment tab on Blackboard and can also be found here Please note: On submission, you are declaring that, unless otherwise acknowledged, this submission is wholly yours and/or the group's work and it has not been used and already submitted. I/We understand that this work may be submitted for plagiarism check and consent to this taking place.

Moderation

All staff who are assessing your work meet to discuss and compare their judgements before marks or grades are finalised. Refer to MOPP C/5.1.7.

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Academic Integrity As a student of the QUT academic community, you are asked to uphold the principles of academic integrity during your course of study. QUT sets expectations and responsibilities of students specifically stating that students “adopt an ethical approach to academic work and assessment in accordance with this policy and the Student Code of Conduct (E/2.1)". Students need to be aware that academic integrity refers to text and non-text sources, i.e. "copying or adapting non-text based material created by others, such as diagrams, designs, musical score, audio-visual materials, art work, plans, code or photographs without appropriate acknowledgement" (MOPP C/5.3.6 Academic Integrity). It also includes self-plagiarism, this “involves the re-use by a student of their own work without appropriate acknowledgement of the source. Students should seek express consent from the unit coordinator prior to re-using their own work in an assessment submission" (MOPP C/5.3.6 Academic Integrity). Students are expected to demonstrate their own understanding and thinking using ideas provided by ‘others’ to support and inform their work, always acknowledging the source. While we encourage peer learning, it is not appropriate to share assignments with other students unless your assessment piece has been stated as being a group assignment. If you do share your assignment with another student, and they copy all or part of your assignment for their submission, this is considered collusion and you may be reported for academic misconduct. If you are unsure and need more information http://www.mopp.qut.edu.au/C/C_05_03.jsp#C_05_03.03.mdoc

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KPB113 | Screen Text Analysis | Essay #1 | Analysis of Screen Texts | Rubric The purpose of this qualitative rubric is purely for your feedback. The marker will decide on the grade/mark to put on the assessment.

Criteria Knowledge, Understanding, and Application

+ High Distinction -

+ Distinction -

+ Pass -

+ Fail -

You have displayed a very comprehensive knowledge and understanding of your textual analysis approach,

You have displayed a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of your textual analysis approach,

You have displayed a reasonable degree of knowledge and understanding of your textual analysis approach,

You have displayed a foundational degree of knowledge and understanding of your textual analysis approach,

You have displayed little knowledge and understanding of your textual analysis approach,

You have displayed no evidence of knowledge about and understanding of your textual analysis approach

very consistently and very accurately applying appropriate terms and concepts of film language that allows your chosen films/program to generate meaning for audiences

consistently and accurately applying appropriate terms and concepts of film language that allows your chosen films/program to generate meaning for audiences

demonstrating a considered level of consistency and accuracy in applying appropriate terms and concepts of film language that allows your chosen films/program to generate meaning for audiences

demonstrating a foundational level of consistency and accuracy in applying appropriate terms and concepts of film language that allows your chosen films/program to generate meaning for audiences

an inadequate level of consistency or accuracy in applying appropriate terms and concepts of film language that allows your chosen films/program to generate meaning for audiences

— there is no evidence that you can apply appropriate terms and of film language that allows your chosen films/ program to generate meaning for audiences

You have provided a detailed and sophisticated textual analysis of your chosen films/programs.

You have provided a welldeveloped textual analysis of your chosen films/ programs.

You have provided a considered textual analysis of your chosen films/programs which makes some good general insights.

You have provided a foundational textual analysis of your chosen films/programs.

You have provided no explanation based on the textual elements and features of film/TV texts, or.

You have demonstrated an exemplary ability to use these textual elements as evidence to support your interpretation of the texts including the narrative of the text.

You have demonstrated a well-developed ability to use these textual elements as evidence to support your interpretation of the texts including the narrative of the text.

You have demonstrated a considered ability to use these textual elements as evidence to support your interpretation of the texts including the narrative of the text.

You have attempted to use these textual elements as evidence to support your interpretation of the texts including the narrative of the text.

You have provided an inadequate textual analysis of your chosen films/programs. Your use of these textual elements as evidence to support your interpretations was also inadequate including the narrative of the text.

Weighting: 25

Textual Analysis and Interpretation Weighting: 25

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+ Credit -

No Evidence

You did not use textual You have failed to elements to support your integrate appropriate filmic interpretation and examples to support your analysis. largely weak and inaccurate argument

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Production Context and other Research Weighting: 25

Communication Weighting: 25

Your discussion of production contexts for your chosen texts are sophisticated and insightful and provide a highly relevant context for your textual analysis which takes account of the type of film/program and its sociocultural/ industry context.

Your discussion of production contexts for your chosen texts are well developed and provide a relevant context for your textual analysis which takes account of the type of film/program and its sociocultural/industry context.

Your discussion of production contexts for your chosen texts provide a relevant context for your textual analysis which takes some account of the type of film/program and its sociocultural/industry context.

Your discussion of production contexts is foundational and provides some relevant context for your textual analysis. Further connections to sociocultural and industry contexts are needed to develop the argument further.

Your discussion of production contexts for your chosen texts are poorly developed and provide irrelevant context for your textual analysis not taking account of the type of film/program and its sociocultural/industry context.

Your discussion has no production context for your chosen texts, and provides no context for your textual analysis.

You have demonstrated an exemplary ability to undertake independent research and to apply this research to develop and support your argument.

You have demonstrated a well-developed ability to undertake independent research and apply this research to develop and support your argument.

You have demonstrated a fair ability to undertake independent research and apply this research to develop a foundational argument.

You have demonstrated some ability to undertake independent research and attempted to apply this research to support your argument. Research is presented as description rather than analysis.

You have demonstrated almost no ability to undertake independent research and apply this research to develop and support your argument.

You have provided no evidence of independent research, or an ability to apply this knowledge to develop an argument.

You have strongly and persuasively communicated your ideas, consistently and accurately using appropriate language and referencing conventions

You have coherently and effectively communicated your ideas, consistently and accurately using appropriate language and referencing conventions.

You have mostly coherently and effectively communicated your ideas, consistently and accurately using appropriate language and referencing conventions.

You have communicated your ideas satisfactorily, but there are some inaccuracies and/or inappropriateness in the use of language and referencing conventions.

You have communicated your ideas satisfactorily, but there are major inaccuracies and/or inappropriateness in the use of language and referencing conventions.

You have not attempted to communicate any ideas.

You have stayed within the stipulated word limit range (you did not go over this word limit).

You have stayed within the stipulated word limit range (you did not go over this word limit).

You have stayed within the stipulated word limit range (you did not go over this word limit).

You have stayed, or Your discussion went mostly stayed, within the significantly over or under stipulated word limit range. the word limit range.

Your discussion of the text went well over or under the word limit range.

*NE - No evidence provided. Where + is high in the range and – is low in the range.

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