For each of the two papers, you will be responsible for watching a film and writing a 3 to 5-page essay in which you respond to prompts that will be provided for each paper (this means at least 3 pages including the “My Criteria for Quality in Film” page and no longer than 5 pages). These assignments are reaction papers, not plot summaries or research papers. The key element here is that you will be telling the instructor what you have to say about the film, not what others have said.