Director Project
Due Feb. 4, Mar. 6, Apr. 15, Apr. 22, Apr. 24
30 pts.
In your small group, develop a presentation focusing on the film director you are assigned.
One member of your group will be the leader who presides at your meetings and performs the introduction at the presentation.
One member of your group will be the secretary who coordinates when your group will meet, takes attendance at your meetings, and emails a summary of each meeting to all members of the team and Professor Rankin. The secretary will also work with the group leader to assemble the individual sections into a complete outline.
One member of your group will be the PowerPoint author who will take the secretary's outline, edit it as a PowerPoint presentation and run the PowerPoint at the class presentation.
The other members of your group will each research one of the following categories: biography, filmography, trivia and interesting backstories and film clip(s). After researching, each team member will write an Outline and submit it (and accompanying graphics or film clips) to the group secretary.
The PowerPoint editor will assemble the secretary's outline into an audio/visual presentation. At the presentation, each researcher will present his/her section of the PowerPoint. The total presentation should be as close to 20 minutes as possible. The PowerPoint must be in Outline form only with the name of each contributor under the heading of their section of the project. The PowerPoint must conclude with a complete bibliography and the name of the leader, the secretary, and the PowerPoint editor.
Following the presentation, you will receive an email form on which you will grade each member of your group. Those grades will be averaged and each member of the team will receive their qualitative grade from that average.
Derivation of Grade: 15 points quantitative; 15 points qualitative
Quantitative:
If all four requirements (biography, filmography, trivia and backstory, and
film clip(s)) sections are presented, each team member will receive 15 points.
There will be a 4-point deduction for any missing section.
Qualitative:
Each team member will be graded by his/her fellow team members and receive
up to 3 points for each of the following criteria:
for researchers:
Attendance, Cooperation, Leadership, Creativity, and Public
Presentation
for leader:
Leadership, Cooperation, Adherence to Task, Creativity, and 3
free points for working as leader
for secretary:
Attendance, Cooperation, Quality of Note Taking,
Communication, and 3 free points for working as secretary
Directors:
Clint Eastwood (students 1-7)
Elia Kazan (students 8-14)
Alfred Hitchcock (students 15-21)
Stanley Kubrick (students 22-28)
Orson Welles (students 29-35)