The Shawshank Redemption: A movie review.

 



Hello everyone, in this post, I will be mentioning the film we reviewed, The Shawshank Redemption. The main reason we chose this movie for our review was the fact that it was in the top 250 movies on IMDB. To be more specific, it was the movie with the highest rating among them on the website called IMDB. The ratings don't lie, it was really a good movie.

For our task, we have examined themes like actors, music, structure, lighting and the things we disliked. I shortly summarized how the lightings in places reflect the people and their moods under my friends' advices and examination. Personally, I was assigned in our group to examine the lighting in the movie, found in different places of the prison.

For online collaborative writing, we used Google Docs to prepare pur assignment online, just like some of our assignments given beforehand.The different roles shared in order to do our assignment provided a fun time and less workload to complete this task. We shared different parts of this assignment and worked collectively on Google Docs, which made it transparent to see the mistakes we had to correct before completing our task.

In the end, we shared the document with our friends, Emirhan, Emir and Emir Batu, who, later on, would comment on our review of our film and share their opinions about whether or not they would consider watching the film. Afterwards, we did the same for them.

You can access our review here. Also, you can reach my friends' comments and our review in the screenshots below.
















                                         



The blogs of my friends: Pelin and Alperen

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