How to get started on Essay 2 – Visual AnalysisRead the following essays first:• “The Elements of Documentary Film” (Take copious notes based on the ideas in thisdocument) and• “What did that movie mean?” (This essay will help you understand the difference between afilm “review” and a film “analysis.” This paper is a visual analysis of film, which means thatyour goal is not to tell what the film is about, instead your goal is to create and prove anargument about what this film means and why it has value.)Watch the film Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened. It can be accessed via theinstructions below.Discuss this film with your peers on DB’s 1, 2, & 3Review the “assignment directions, guidelines, requirements, and paper topics” document.Choose a topic and create a rough draft of a visual analysis.Use any Dallas College Tutoring/Writing Center or the website: Tutor.com (the link is on the first pageof this course, below my photo and office hours information)Next, submit E 2-rough draft by the date on the Schedule of Assignments; complete the Peer ReviewThen, revise and edit the final draft of Essay 2, and submit it by the due date.At the end of this folder are links for two very important databases with critical, valuable evidence tosupport your argument:• SCMS (Society of Cinema and Media Studies)• FLI (Film Literature Index)
