Informed Practice Essay

Lilybelle Williamson Posted on 26th May 2022 Posted in Uncategorised No Comments

Your Assignment

Your assignment is to write an essay (1,600 words, +/- 10%) in response to one of the three prompts from the project brief (below).

Your essay should deal critically with your chosen subject and reference at least five scholarly texts relevant to your enquiry. These could be sourced from textbooks, the writing of philosophers and cultural theorists, academic journals or texts used during the unit.

All research sources in-text must be fully referenced (using Harvard system) and a bibliography at the end of your submission must be included.

write an essay in response to one of the three prompts bellow:

a) Select a visual narrative of your choice (either comic, film, television programme, animation or video game) and discuss the role fear plays within the narrative. What is the source of the fear? What formal techniques are used to manipulate the feelings of the audience? Explain how the narrative, and in particular the representation of fear within the narrative, relates to broader cultural, social or political issues in play at the time the work was made.
b) Choose a storyteller/philosopher/artist whose deals with or against darkness and whose ideas have been adapted for the screen. Is the adaptation a straight or a loose interpretation of the original idea/story? Is there a shift in how formal elements (such as: the theme, characterization, style, tone, and plot) are presented within the adaptation? Is the overall message of the original text retained?

c)Choose a high-tension scene from a horror/sci-film/TV programme/animation you have seen. Locate and read the script of the scene (if available) and analyse the sub-text, the narrative shape of the scene, colour, light and shadow, sound, character positioning and dominance, etc. Provide evidence through your analysis of the narrative and use secondary research to support your theory of toward the sub-text of your case study.

https://wp.nyu.edu/darknessspeaks/wp-content/uploads/sites/3674/2016/09/who_goes_there.pdf

https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA144193030&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00145483&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7Ecb57fb41

https://www-tandfonline-com.arts.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1080/01956051.2012.755488

https://www.brattleblog.brattlefilm.org/2017/10/19/the-thing-and-the-aids-epidemic-5862/