Since the process of writing the final paper for the course came to an end a few days ago, I thought I would talk a little bit about it here. My paper was a formal analysis of You are Not an Orphan, which in this case focused on some of the cinematographic techniques in the film and how those techniques helped to convey the effects of the war on the characters in the film. Since the paper was set at seven to ten pages, I focused specifically on three elements of the visual aspect of the film: canted framing, close up shots of characters' faces, and frame height.
I chose this topic because You are Not an Orphan was one of my absolute favorite films that we saw this semester, and in my response paper for the film, I did sort of a mini version of this type of analysis but didn't really get into too much detail. I enjoyed looking at some of the visual components of the film in a more critical manner, so I thought it would be interesting to kind of expand on some of those ideas.
Quite honestly, the paper was more challenging to put together than I had anticipated it to be. My first draft of the paper was a little too detailed and seemed to ramble on for pages, making it kind of boring to read, in my opinion. I ended up changing the format a little bit and I think it turned out okay (I hope so anyway), but there is no denying that the process of getting the paper written in a way that was decently organized and written clearly enough to get my point across proved to be a lot more difficult than I thought it was going to be. Even so, a little bit of a challenge is a good thing, right?
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