Final presentation guidelines

For your Final Project, you will prepare and perform a 10-15-minute presentation on a topic of your choice related to the TV series or movie or both.

Example topics:           

• Moral Ambiguity in Firefly
• The growth of a character through the series and movie
• The concept of 'found family'
• Individualism vs. Statism
• Choose an actor/writer/director you like and tell us about other things they have done.
• Choose a feature of TV, such as writing, music, dialog, cinematography, lighting, etc, and explain its importance in Firefly.

Anything that is interesting to you is an acceptable topic as long as you can talk about it for 10-15 minutes.

You don’t have to include all the episodes in your analysis, but you may want to go ahead and watch the remaining episodes and the movie if you want more material to work with. Remember that if you watch ahead of other people in class, be careful not to spoil them during class discussions. BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL IF YOU WATCH THE MOVIE!!!

Presentations should be memorized. You may have notes to look at, but any students who READ their presentation will receive a ZERO. You must email me the script of your presentation by 9am the day of your presentation.

You may use Powerpoint if you want to, but text on the slides should be minimal.
Here's a video with some good tips about giving presentations:

And the accompanying article here.

Topics due: Thursday, May 16th in my email by 5pm. I may have comments or suggestions for you which I will email back to you.

Presentation Outline due:

Thursday, May 30th.
Script: You must email a copy of your presentation materials (script, ppt, whatever) by 5pm the day before your presentation.

NOTE: This is your FINAL. Students choosing not to do the presentation or who are absent on their presentation day will FAIL this class.

Grading for the presentation:

You will be graded on Preparation, Materials, Delivery, and Overall Quality. You will also give a grade to other presentations.

Average of audience scores - 50%
My score                                - 50%

Week 8: Wars Stories and Trash

Class dated: April 22

War Stories

Written by  Cheryl Cain
Directed by James A. Contner

Vocabulary

Trivia (wikipedia)

§  The opening scene, where Simon is prodding through River's brain scans and Book speaks of Simon's great heist, refers to the entirety of the previous episode, "Ariel". Before Niska intervenes, the crew is in the process of selling the stolen medicine from "Ariel".

§  River's sharpshooting skill becomes a point of contention in the episode "Objects in Space" as well as the feature movie Serenity.

Trash
Written by Ben Edlund and Jose Molina
Directed by Vern Gillum
Vocabulary

Trivia (wikipedia)

• Saffron is a returning character who first appeared in "Our Mrs. Reynolds", an episode that apparently occurred "about a half a year back" from this one.

• After Jayne stocks up Simon and River's cabin and leaves, River, in another paranormal instance, tells Simon that Jayne is afraid they'll know what he was attempting to do in "Ariel", two episodes past. Simon and River confront Jayne on the subject towards the end of the episode.

Homework:

1. Work on your next assignment.

2. Watch episode 10, The Message. Yes, that's right, only one episode!

Vocabulary for The Message

Fan Art Corner!

War Stories:

Trash:

By zylair