Prior to beginning work on this journal, address the following:

• Review Readings 1 and 2 in the textbook.
• Watch The Importance of Storytelling in Film.
• Reflect on the concepts presented in the readings.

In this week’s readings, you were introduced to some of the important aspects of film: evaluating, analyzing, and interpreting film; storytelling; narrative elements; the role of film in society; and the relationship between literature and film. For this exercise, you will create a mind map organizing and connecting topics and subtopics in a manner that you believe best illustrates film. In essence, you will connect terms you learned in the readings with the concepts in a mind map. You will also write a one- to two-page reflective paper explaining the relationships between the topics in your mind map and the storytelling aspects of film.

In your mind map,

• Illustrate the relationship between film topics (e.g., evaluating, analyzing, and interpreting film; storytelling; narrative elements; the role of film in society; and the relationship between literature and film) and subtopics.
  • Note: You are not limited to the above topics and subtopics.
• Be creative. There is no right or wrong way to do this.

Mind Map Tools and Resources

You may use Microsoft Office or PowerPoint or consider using the following:

• MindMeister (requires users to sign up)
• WiseMapping
• Draw.io
• Get Inspired With These 13 Mind Map Examples
• The Power of Mind Map: Get More Things Done & Make Creativity Easy

In addition, write a short paper explaining your mind map. In your paper,

• Explain the relationship between various aspects of storytelling (e.g., narrative and literary elements).
• Discuss storytelling aspects of film using one of your favorite movies you identified in your discussion earlier this week as an example.