Flyer/Hype Poster Materials

For our Monday meeting, your group is tasked with creating a promotional flyer or poster to hype your documentary and the R2C2 Film Festival.

Bring 5 copies of this flyer with you to our meeting on Monday! 

After the meeting your group will be tasked with hanging up your promo poster around campus. This flyer should be creative and unique, should make a solid, visual and textual argument for why people should come see your film, but also must include the following elements:

1. Film Festival Event Details:

R2C2 Student Documentary Film Festival
Thursday, May 5
5 PM
Pizza and Beverages provided by Student Senate

The above event information must be included on your group's flyer/promo poster.

2. The R2C2 Documentary Film Festival logo (see below), which should be downloaded from this page and pasted onto your group's promotional flyer/poster.

Documentary Particulars

As this documentary is a type of final product, demonstrating your mastery of the unit materials, it is graded rather heavily in the final evaluation of your grade.

There are two parts of evaluation for this final product. The pre-work for the documentary, which counts as 50% of this documentary project, and the finished product, which accounts for the other 50% of the documentary.

Remember that if your group is planning on using interviews, the permission form must be used prior to filming work is done! You must get the permission forms signed and dated or your documentary will not be eligible for showing at the festival!

In this pre-work students must bring evidence of completion of these elements:

1. Students are required to situate their documentary in a sub-genre of documentary styles and be able to identify why their documentary fits into this sub-genre.

2. Create a storyboard and tag lines of commentary for the documentary on the storyboard sheets posted to the class blog.

These elements of the pre-work for the documentary will be turned at the same time the instructor and documentary groups meet to review the final rough draft of the film on Monday, May 2--time to be determined by group and instructor.

The finished product will be evaluated for the following:

1. All group members must engage in the documentary-making process, whether it is by conducting interviews, script-writing, filming, editing, or participating in the film.

2. At least two members of the group must be present during the showing of the documentary and stay until the end of the presentations in order for that group to be eligible to win; in addition, at least two group members must be present for the group to receive credit. If you leave the presentations, your group cannot win.

3. Documentaries must be submitted to the instructor for review no later than class meetings on Monday, May 2, for M-W-F courses, or on Tuesday, May 3, for T-Th courses.

4. The documentary must be a minimum of 3 minutes and a maximum of 5 minutes.

5. The documentary must display these rhetorical principles and elements of the 4 Cs: a) a clearly defined main argument; b) a concise and professionally produced final product that demonstrates thoughtful application of pre-work, research, counterargument, and the four rhetorical appeals discussed in class; c) concrete research that adds to the scholarship on the topic; d) a current or flow through the documentary's "storytelling"; and finally e) application of the four rhetorical appeals: ethos, lexos, logos, and pathos.

6. A list of sources must be at the end of the documentary on a final, end credits-like slide that includes the locations where you did research and found images, who was interviewed for the documentary, and other pertinent research information.

Best of luck with these and if there are any questions, please let me know.

Storyboard Sheets

Download, save, and print these storyboard sheets for your visual outlines of the documentary.

Writing Project 3: Research Paper

Writing Project 3's initial due date is: for MWF classes, Wednesday, April 20 and for Tu-Thu classes, Thursday, April 21 at the start of class.


The "project" of Writing Project 3 will be to write a thoroughly researched, meticulously documented research paper that demonstrates a superior vetting of your sources. In writing this final research paper, you should touch upon the three main aspects of the course--establish a concrete, main argument that revolves around a CREW-like structure; demonstrate an understanding and use of the four rhetorical appeals; and provide some ethos driving "proof" of your conspiracy theory.


As this is an individual research paper, you are asked to write a four page paper that demonstrates knowledge and time given to the 4Cs of writing discussed in class: clear writing that has been proofread for errors and content; concise writing that has no fluff and is based in a good understanding of word choice and sentence structure; concrete writing that has evidence and supporting reasons to back your main research claim; and finally, writing that has some current/flow, which ensures that each subsequent paragraph leads into the other.  
 
These research papers should be double-spaced using 12 point Times-New Roman font and have 1.0" margins. Your annotated bibliographies, previously known as Writing Project 2, should be at the end of the document. 

Structure: there should be a title page, which is followed by an abstract presenting an overview or main point of your research paper--this can be treated as this research paper's extended "thesis statement." This abstract should be 4-7 sentences long and be in italics and single-spaced. Then, your individual four page research papers should follow. Rounding out the document will be the annotated bibliography.

Regarding sources: in your four page paper, you will need to CITE--use either APA, MLA, IEEE, or Chicago-Turabian; and in-text citation style should match the annotated bibliography's format--at least six different sources. Of these six sources, at least three sources need to be primary sources, meaning something obtained from an on-line archive, an autobiography, newspaper article of the time, similar repository, or an oral history interview. Also, your individual paper must have at least three different types of sources, an example: you may use a book, vetted web site (.gov, .edu, .org--as a primary source), scholarly journal, oral history, and image. Lastly, your four page paper may contain only one, appropriately sized image that should have a caption and source.


And lastly: be sure to remember to use sound rhetorical principles in the paper, identify your audience; make a strong, but balanced and supported argument, if you write with bias be sure to make that bias transparent and include a counterargument; include the four rhetorical appeals: ethos, lexos, logos, and pathos in your writing. Also, be sure to employ the 4 Cs (clear, concise, concrete, current/flow) in the writing, while using some of the techniques we discussed in class to make your writing more readable.