Purpose:

The Group Vocabulary project reflects the collaborative nature of the cinema and media industries an is great preparation for any workplace. This assignment will hone your visual and audio identification skills as you find examples of key vocabulary terms from our textbook and analyze their significance. Your group will collaborate using email, your LBCC Zoom, your LBCC gmail drive, and either Google Slides or Powerpoint to complete your project. This project meets all of the course learning outcomes if completed successfully. See the Week 8 Lecture (in the Week 8 Movie and Reading Discussion) for more details about the project.

 

Task:

1. Sign up for a group using this ENG 110 Group Project Sign-up Google form (available during the term of instruction only). Students with specific learning accommodations may be eligible to complete a solo project (contact me if this may apply to you). Otherwise, solo projects will be worth up to 90% (A-) credit.

 

2. Each person in your group is responsible for choosing 9 (nine) vocabulary terms from the textbook (vocabulary terms are indicated in bold font) and creating slides for each term. (Groups of 4 will have 36 slides + a cover slide) For each vocabulary term, create a Powerpoint or Google slide that includes the following:

 

3. Collaborating as a group, you will decide which terms each person will focus on and develop ideas for a shared slide design for your project. There are multiple ways to achieve cohesive and elegant slides, such as having the entire group choose the same movie (or a group of movies from the same genre, director, actor, historical era, etc). If someone in the group has yearbook or website design experience, you can also consider how to use the Google or Powerpoint backgrounds and design templates to create a visually striking project to accompany your writing and examples.

 

4. After your initial meeting, you will work individually and use your LBCC gmail drive to share your document with each other.  Groups are encouraged to meet a second time before the deadline to review the project together and peer-review each other's sections.  When the project is complete, be sure to make a cover slide with everyone's names and a bibliography slide with a full citation for our textbook and any other sources cited.  One person in the group can post the final version as a viewable Google slides link or a link to Powerpoint file in your LBCC gmail drive.  PDF and Powerpoint files can also be attached to Canvas.

 

Sample Student Projects: (Please note that this student had a different textbook and somewhat different assignment guidelines and I am sharing these with their permission only to give you ideas for designing you slides:

Annotated Keywords Sample_Animation Keywords.pdf

 

TIPS:

 

GRADING: 250 points

75 pts - overall quality of the visual design and group cohesiveness and consistency in the project

125 pts - quality, concision, and copyediting of the written keyword definitions, analysis, and citations

50 pts - accuracy and creativity in the choice of images and/or sounds for each keyword

 

List of Websites with Free Movies: 

LBCC Library Sony Pictures Classic Collection

LBCC: Academic Videos Online

LBCC: Films on Demand

Kanopy: Via Corvallis Public Library, all students and employees can sign up for e-resource cards using their LBCC email

Tubi: https://tubitv.com 

Sony Crackle: https://www.sonycrackle.com 

Vudu: https://www.vudu.com 

IMDBtv: https://www.imdb.com/tv 

Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/movies 

LBCC films on demand 

Popcorn Flix: https://www.popcornflix.com 

SnagFilms: https://www.snagfilms.com 

Kanopy: https://www.kanopy.com

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/channels 

Yidio: https://www.yidio.com 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com 

OpenCulture.com: http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline 

Library of Congress: Selections from the National Film Registery: https://www.loc.gov/collections/selections-from-the-national-film-registry/ 

National Film Board of Canada: https://www.nfb.ca/films/