As a filmmaker, it is crucial to understand who you are now and how your past has shaped your current outlook and orientation toward the broader social world. This reflection exercise asks you to take inventory of the experiences, stories, and people in your personal history that inform your perspective and really pinpoint the subjects, themes, goals, and desires that are most meaningful to you at this moment in time. When searching for a subject or theme for any course assignment, come back to these answers to remind yourself of what you care about in the world most in this world and why. These answers are here to ‘keep you honest,’ so to speak, in your intentions as a filmmaker and help you develop an artistic voice that feels true to your experiences. There are two components to this exercise. The first part should be completed in private and does not require you to submit anything written. The second portion should be submitted directly on this Google Document by noon on Tuesday of Week 3 (Oct 12). Part A. Complete this portion on your own in private List your key experiences. Make sure that you are somewhere quiet first. Then begin to write some rapid, short notations as things come to mind. Make a private, non-judgmental list of your most moving experiences. That is, any experiences that have profoundly moved you, whether to joy, rage, panic, fear, disgust, anguish, love, etc. Keep going until you have at least 10-12 marks written down. Some will seem ‘positive’ (accompanied by feelings of joy, relief, discovery, laughter), but many will seem ‘negative’ in that they carry disturbing emotional connotations of humiliation, shame, or anger. Try to resist making any ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ value judgments about your experiences. They all mark important truths about you, your journey, where you have been, and where you wish to go next. Arrange these key experiences into groupings. This is a technique called clustering, and it helps reveal structures, connections, and hierarchies within your life’s experiences. Feel free to organize them in any way that feels pertinent. Then name each group and define any relationships you can find between them. Describe a single, powerfully influential experience, and the mark it left on you. Keep the description brief. Example: ‘Growing up in an area at war, I had an early fear and loathing of uniforms and uniformity. When my father came home after the war, my mother became less accessible, and my father was closer to my older brother, so I came to believe I must do everything alone.’ As you externalize your inner agenda, you naturally start to see themes emerge on the page. Any single, deeply felt theme can find expression through many film subjects, each one very close to you, yet none of them autobiographically revealing. Part B. Submit your responses to this portion directly on this Google Document: In 1-2 paragraphs, summarize your authorial perspective and orientation by completing the four sentences below. The more candid you are, the better, but you need not disclose anything too private. The theme(s) that arise from my self-study are The subjects for which I feel most emotionally connected are The changes for which I strive as an artist, person, and a member of my community are Other important goals I have in this life are… Explanation & Answer: 2 pages Tags: person and member of my community fighting against domestic violence Growing up with drunkard parents fear of relationships and marriage My parents were less accessible User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool’s honor code & terms of service.
Reference List: Basic Rules
Note: This page reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in October 2019. The equivalent resource for the older APA 6 style can be found here.
This resource, revised according to the 7th edition APA Publication Manual, provides fundamental guidelines for constructing the reference pages of research papers. For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (7th ed.).
Note: Because the information on this page pertains to virtually all citations, we’ve highlighted one important difference between APA 6 and APA 7 with an underlined note written in red.
Formatting a Reference List
Your reference list should appear at the end of your paper. It provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and retrieve any source you cite in the body of the paper. Each source you cite in the paper must appear in your reference list; likewise, each entry in the reference list must be cited in your text.
Your references should begin on a new page separate from the text of the essay; label this page “References” in bold, centered at the top of the page (do NOT underline or use quotation marks for the title). All text should be double-spaced just like the rest of your essay.
Basic Rules for Most Sources
- All lines after the first line of each entry in your reference list should be indented one-half inch from the left margin. This is called hanging indentation.
- All authors’ names should be inverted (i.e., last names should be provided first).
- Authors’ first and middle names should be written as initials.
- For example, the reference entry for a source written by Jane Marie Smith would begin with “Smith, J. M.”
- If a middle name isn’t available, just initialize the author’s first name: “Smith, J.”
- Give the last name and first/middle initials for all authors of a particular work up to and including 20 authors (this is a new rule, as APA 6 only required the first six authors). Separate each author’s initials from the next author in the list with a comma. Use an ampersand (&) before the last author’s name. If there are 21 or more authors, use an ellipsis (but no ampersand) after the 19th author, and then add the final author’s name.
- Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work.
- For multiple articles by the same author, or authors listed in the same order, list the entries in chronological order, from earliest to most recent.
- When referring to the titles of books, chapters, articles, reports, webpages, or other sources, capitalize only the first letter of the first word of the title and subtitle, the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and proper nouns.
- Note again that the titles of academic journals are subject to special rules. See section below.
- Italicize titles of longer works (e.g., books, edited collections, names of newspapers, and so on).
- Do not italicize, underline, or put quotes around the titles of shorter works such as chapters in books or essays in edited collections.
Basic Rules for Articles in Academic Journals
- Present journal titles in full.
- Italicize journal titles.
- Maintain any nonstandard punctuation and capitalization that is used by the journal in its title.
- For example, you should use PhiloSOPHIA instead of Philosophia, or Past & Present instead of Past and Present.
- Capitalize all major words in the titles of journals. Note that this differs from the rule for titling other common sources (like books, reports, webpages, and so on) described above.
- This distinction is based on the type of source being cited. Academic journal titles have all major words capitalized, while other sources’ titles do not.
- Capitalize the first word of the titles and subtitles of journal articles, as well as the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and any proper nouns.
- Do not italicize or underline the article title.
- Do not enclose the article title in quotes.
- So, for example, if you need to cite an article titled “Deep Blue: The Mysteries of the Marianas Trench” that was published in the journal Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication, you would write the article title as follows:
- Deep blue: The mysteries of the Marianas Trench.
- …but you would write the journal title as follows:
- Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication
- So, for example, if you need to cite an article titled “Deep Blue: The Mysteries of the Marianas Trench” that was published in the journal Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication, you would write the article title as follows:
Please note: While the APA manual provides examples of how to cite common types of sources, it does not cover all conceivable sources. If you must cite a source that APA does not address, the APA suggests finding an example that is similar to your source and using that format. For more information, see page 282 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed.
