The assignment is to discuss any movie or television program of your choice, describing and analyzing a significant use of one of the designated formal elements Paper, editing & sound) in ONE SELECTED SCENE. Describe in some detail how the selected scene uses form in an expressive way; that is, describe and discuss specific aspects of style. How does form create content/meaning/affect? Don’t spend much time summarizing the plot (a couple of sentences for context should cover it) but be sure to cite specific examples from the film/TV program to support your argument. Also, even though you are concentrating on particular segments, don’t neglect the film/text as a whole. Be sure to discuss enough about the rest of the film to convey a sense of how the sequence you have chosen fits into the film overall, thematically, narratively, etc. Consider, for example, how visual or thematic motifs in this sequence function in other parts of the film.  Paper #2 (Editing and Sound): Take a single scene from a movie or TV show of your choice and analyze it in terms of how it uses aspects of editing and sound to communicate narrative and/or thematic meanings about the story as a whole: time/space relationships, development of narrative info, use of off-screen space, setting the mood, etc.
Additional stylistic tips for writing your papers:
It’s acceptable occasionally to say, “I think,” etc. in a formal critique. However, this should be avoided or used sparingly.
Film and book titles should be italicized. Every time. Do not footnote dialog quotes from the movie.
Avoid this phrasing: “In the movie The Wizard of Oz…” We know it’s a movie.
The first time you mention a movie/TV show title, it’s appropriate to indicate when it was released, e.g., Casablanca (1942). To keep the principal characters of the story clear, you might also indicate the actor’s name the first time they are mentioned, e.g., Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman). No need to name every actor in the scene, however.
Avoid tedious “here I go” statements that just waste space: e.g., “I have chosen to analyze for this assignment the film X,” or “I will now do this,” and “I have just done that,” etc. Just get to it.
In describing a movie adapted from a novel, play, or other source, the phrase is “based on,” not “based off of,” which clumsily repeats prepositions.
Avoid awkward uses of common words that have particular meanings in film production and analysis, e.g.,
–“zooms in on” when you really mean “cuts to a close up” or simply “emphasizes.” The automatic variable focus lens (zoom lens) did not come into general use until the mid-1950s, btw.
–“focuses on” when you really mean “emphasizes” or “concentrates our attention on.” Virtually every shot of every film “focuses on” something.
–a “dramatic change” when writing about…drama. You really mean “significant” or “sudden” change in the story development.
These simple things will improve the style of your analysis.