How to Write PRELIM 9b as a Movie Pitch or Movie Trailer:
* Be Brief + Detailed + Specific + Concise [2-3 minutes]
* Include significant information w/succinct language + keyterms
* Set a Tone appropriate for your research Topic-Focus-Motive-Stance-Emerging Thesis/Argument
* Incorporate Important Research Keyterms
* Write for an identifiable Audience . . . to Persuade them
* Use questioning or other hook strategies to draw that Audience in . . .
* Imply Motive (why is the topic/potential argument important?)
* Evoke Stance (To what extent am I invested in this topic+ why?
* Exhibit credible ethos, but be interesting, provocative, controversial
* An Audience should want to read your essay after hearing your Movie Pitch for your project!
* Note the Conversation(s) you are entering
* Gesture to a specific Thesis argument or possible arguments
* Don’t give it away! (No Argument Plot Summaries or Spoilers!)
You will deliver your Research + Argument Presentation as either a Movie Pitch or Movie Trailer in class: you can either read/share live or record your Pitch and then play it in class
If you want to you can try to sound like Movie Man Voice!
“Meet the Epic Voice Behind Movie Trailers”
Movie Pitch Text + Movie Trailer for The Last Sumurai
Official Movie Trailer for The Last Sumurai
Example Trailers
Opening for the original Star Trek TV series
Space, the final frontier
These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise
Its five year mission
To explore strange new worlds
To seek out new life
And new civilizations
To boldly go where no man has gone before
Example Student Movie Pitch as a Movie Trailer