COMM 103 DAC The Interests of The Lgbtq Community Paper

Final Paper Proposal Assignment

Final papers can be about any documentaries and any themes; it can be a compare and contrast situation, or it can still be a case study of a specific style or genre of documentaries, like crime or food or sports. Papers need to have detailed analysis of at least one scene or sequence.  The films should be analyzed in a similar way as to what we are doing in class – examine structural visual elements, details about shot composition and camera angles used, sound design (including sound effects if they were used) & soundtracks.

Final Paper Proposals can be written in paragraph form or can be in the form of an outline; either way is fine; the more detailed the better, you are being graded on how specific and how much thought you have put into the proposal.  You should be sure to use the terms and film analysis that we have learned in the class when discussing your chosen documentaries. When submitting the final paper (not this proposal), you should list a time stamp when you are referring to a specific scene in your paper; example 00:10:30 or 10 min. and 30 sec into the film.

You are still required to list at least 3 additional bibliographic resourcesfor the final paper; they can be academic articles and/or magazine and/or newspaper and/or reputable online publication. They can also be film reviews (must be longer than a paragraph) or interviews with the filmmakers or an article about the film’s subject matter.  You may use the books for the class as one and only one of your bibliographic resources as a fourth resource, but you must find 3 original resources. It is fine to list more than 3 bibliographic resources.

Link to the Google Drive with the Films for COMM 103D S2020
There are 38 films in this drive, Remember you must use your UCSD Email to access this
drive!
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1MGUHSkyTPHpdE0LMStGBaN5G0utZPw5s
Here is the list of the films, listed mostly in historical order:
Nanook of the North
Man with a Movie Camera
Rain
Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis
Bowling for Columbine
Waltz with Bashir
Triumph of the Will
Olympia – first hour is fine
Shoah – first hour is fine
Harlan County, USA
Titticut Follies
Grey Gardens
Berkeley in the 60s
Eyes on the Prize – Episode 2 Fighting Back: 1957-1962
The Civil War – 1st episode
Tongues Untied by Marlon Riggs
Paris is Burning
History and Memory by Rea Tajiri ** (not in drive, link will be available)
Reassemblage by Trin Minh-Ha
Thin Blue Line
I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck
Strong Island by Yance Ford
Remembering Wei-Yi Fang by Yvonne Welbon ** (not in drive, link will be available)
Blackfish
Blue Planet
Koyaanisqatsi
Baraka – Ron Fricke, 1992
Cowspiracy
Food, Inc
Madonna Truth or Dare
Stop Making Sense
20 feet from Stardom
Gleaners and I – Agnes Varda
RBG (Ruth Bader Ginsburg biography doc)
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Mr. Rogers
Cameraperson by Kirsten Johnson, 2016 on Amazon Prime
American Factory, Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert, 2019 – Netflix
Honeyland, Hulu
The 13th by Ava Duvernay