How does Roger Deakins’ use of lighting, colour and composition adapt visual conventions in No Country for Old Men (2007) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017)?SL
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Overall Score
27/28
Criteria A: Focus and Method
6/6
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3
6
Criteria Strands
A.1Topic communication and appropriateness
Excellent
A.2Research question clarity and focus
Excellent
A.3Methodology completeness and effectiveness
Excellent
Criteria Feedback
- You communicate your topic clearly and purposefully, with a well-chosen comparison that keeps the investigation focused and manageable.
- Your research question is precise and consistently addressed throughout the essay.
- You select and justify a coherent method that combines close visual analysis with relevant scholarship and practitioner material.
- You show strong awareness of the limits of still-frame analysis, which strengthens your control over the evidence.
- A slightly fuller explanation of why particular frames or adjacent shots were selected would make the method even more transparent.
- You could strengthen the methodological discussion further by showing more explicitly how representative your chosen stills are of the wider sequences.
Criteria B: Knowledge and Understanding
6/6
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3
6
Criteria Strands
B.1Subject knowledge and source application
Excellent
B.2Use of terminology and concepts
Excellent
Criteria Feedback
- You show strong subject knowledge and use film terminology accurately and analytically.
- Your source application is effective overall, especially when you connect Deakins’ practice to genre ideas and visual form.
- You demonstrate a clear understanding of how cinematographic choices shape meaning, emotion, and genre expectation.
- Your terminology is consistent and supports the analysis rather than sitting separately from it.
- Some broader claims about genre convention would benefit from slightly more nuance and more explicit engagement with competing interpretations.
- A few points would be stronger if you linked them back more directly to the scholarship you cite.
Criteria C: Critical Thinking
12/12
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12
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C.1Research quality and relevance
Good
C.2Analysis depth and effectiveness
Good
C.3Discussion and evaluation
Good
Criteria Feedback
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Criteria D: Presentation
3/4
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4
Criteria Strands
D.1Structure appropriateness
Good
D.2Layout and formatting
Good
Criteria Feedback
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