From now until the end of term, I’d like you to focus on completing your Comparative Study. The aim will be to submit a 1500- 1800 script (with source list) which can be turned into a video essay.

To help you with this, I’ve created an additional resource on SharePoint  which explains how the Comparative Study is structured. This set of slides contains links to exemplar student material which received high grades (7) in the 2019 series – these will be useful to watch as they really demonstrate how the final product should look and sound.

You should already have made some headway on Phase 1 (decide on films and research question) and Phase 2 (undertake primary and secondary research)  of this process and  should now be able to get to work on Phase 3 which is the actual writing of the script.

Before you do, can you please make sure that you have watched both films and that they are accessible to you in  a recordable format i.e. that you have them on DVD so that you can rip them onto Premiere as you will need to import clips from them and won’t be able to do this if you are watching on a streaming service like Netflix or Prime. If you can’t get a copy of your films on DVD then its unlikely that you’ll be able to complete the video essay and may need to choose different ones, possibly even amending your research question.

Revised deadlines for this project now look like this:

Post up final film choices and research question on the blog by 15/6/20 (its important that these go on the blog so that others in the group can see what you’re doing and avoid too much cross over of ideas/ repetition of material)

Email first draft of source list to teacher by 22/6/20 (including the details of the source films themselves, websites, books, articles etc used as citations – an example source list will be available on SharePoint)

Send first draft of 1500- 1800 word script by 29/6/20

Send final draft of 1500- 1800 word script (after written feedback is received) by 16/7/27

Good luck!