Parasite

Objective
To reflect on the different affects of the set designs in Parasite
To develop personal research skills through the affect-analysis-reflection-connection process
To engage in a close analysis of different strategies at work within the performance
Instructions

In this reflection response, you’ll reflect on the contribution of set design to Parasite’s artistic examination of the class system.

This response should be 300-350 words in length, or 1.5 pages, double spaced.

The specific film clip attached below should be the main focus of your analysis. You should analyze the artistic strategies of the set designers using the languages of set design taught in last week’s modules. When connecting the part to a whole you can address how the design of this set contrasts with the design of other environments in the movie. The clip below is low resolution and you should probably watch the full clip at a higher res through the McMaster library or through iTunes to get the full affect.

Use the Preparation and Writing Processes below for guidance when writing your reflection. The deadlines for this assignment are as follows:

Reflection Due: Sunday, November 8 at 11:59pm
Peer-To-Peer Evaluation Due: Wednesday, November 11 at 11:59pm
Personal Feedback to Evaluators Due: Friday, November 13 at 11:59pm

Preparation Process

Think through the following components when watching the assigned clips. This personal research is an important step in formulating your thoughts on the film and its techniques.

Affect: Watch the assigned video clip first and let it just wash over you. How did it make you feel? What images or sounds caught your attention? Do your feelings change part way through? Who are you feeling for? What are you feeling about?
Analysis: Watch it again and observe the strategies the artists are using in telling their story. Then watch it again focusing on the week’s particular design or performance element. Identify the specific strategies.
Reflection: Think about the strategies of the artists and your emotional response. Do you think you felt what they wanted you to feel? Was there something in your own perspective that resisted what they were doing? Did their strategies make you feel things you didn’t necessarily want to feel?
Connection (2 related levels): How does this moment in the play, performance, or film relate to the play, performance, or film, as a whole? What is the play, performance, or film about? How does the play, performance, or film relate to its cultural context and to your cultural context? What dominant ideologies, and cultural narratives are at play?

Writing Process
Your paper should integrate the results of your personal research process above. It should begin with an articulation of how you responded emotionally to this moment (your experience of the affect). It should then proceed to a close analysis of the strategies at work in this section of the play, performance, or film, that uses the languages of performance of design taught in lectures and modules for that week. The analysis should connect to your description of the affect. (NB: you do not have to feel what you think they are trying to make you feel, just note the disconnect and reflect on why.) Then connect that analysis to the play, performance or film, as a whole, and your understanding of its social objectives, its cultural context, and its place within your cultural context.

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