Preliminary Ideas

For the English project of writing two reviews, I am planning on writing a review for both a movie and a television show. As of right now, I will be writing my movie review on the movie Remember the Titans. This is one of my favorite movies and has a powerful message worth writing about. Many of the characters are extremely unique and memorable and will make for good material in my review.  I will be writing this review in the style of an IMDB format. IMDB is an internet database for movie, actors, characters, etc. Its reviews are not very complex and get right to the point by including a brief summary and some smaller details about the characters and genre. I use IMDB regularly and am fairly familiar with their reviews and ratings. I think being familiar with this forum will make writing my review easier as well as help my grade. For my television review I will be writing about the show, One Tree Hill. For this review, I want to try to use a New York Times Review forum. I want to try writing a more complex review because I feel the same way about informal writing as the girl we read about in our textbooks. She was scared to use informal writing in her review because it was something she's never done before and something she was not trained to do. Informal writing is a lot different than what we as students are used to and I prefer to stick with the type of writing I am familiar with if I have the choice. This may be more difficult than I think and I may end up changing my mind, but for now I think it will be a fun challenge for me. This may be true especially because I will be raving about a television show that I love as opposed to some trivial, boring essay prompt that I have no interest in writing. I am excited for this assignment and to do something a little different and more fun as a writing assignment.