Step 04A is working separately; Step 04B is working together

General comments

It is time to narrow down your movie list to the official two films you will compare for your JES.

This step is in two stages:

Both team members view all four films and complete the Step 04A form. So BEFORE they meet they view the films in full, complete the report to me, and send it to me. They do NOT tell each other about their choices.

Team members then meet face-to-face, bringing JES04A with them (in some manner—hard copy, laptop, etc.) to the meeting. Team members debate their options, make their final choice of the two films they will pair, and submit a report to me about that meeting, hopefully right then, during the meeting. You should NOT be debating why types of conclusions you might draw but simply which to films seem richer for the topics and goals of this class, which two seem to pair the best, and so on. Of course one film from each country! Of course keep your romantic goal in mind.

This step has an individual grade component (JES04A) and the first "real" team grade component (JES04B).

I suggest both team members download the two forms now, so they can see what they are getting into: Form-JES04A and Form-JES04B. This is a difficult step and takes time. Here's a short headsup list of things required for JES04 that take time (this is not a complete list of things required):

• Both students have to view all four films in full.
• Each student has to write extensive summaries of two of the films.
• The team completes a detailed report of their face-to-face meeting.

Step 04A: Pre-Step 04 meeting info: Films backgrounds / Ranking of possible pairings

About the films summaries required for this step

For every step of the JES you will be attaching film summaries. For this step you write the summaries for the films you did NOT select in the previous step. This insures that team members, when they meet, are very familiar with all four films. In other words, if your job had been to find two Korean films, your partner will be writing the summary for those two Korean films for this step and you will be writing the summaries for the films your partner located, which will be of course either Japanese or Chinese films.)  

Film summaries are graded at this step. Going forward, the summaries of the two films will be cut-and-pasted into each form. You are welcome to use your partner's summary for the future forms. You can use that borrowed summary as is, or modify it as you wish. It is a required component of submissions but it will not be graded for quality until a future step. (This will be noted at the appropriate time.) For that future step it will be graded as yours so if you are not satisfied with your partner's summary you will need to rework it by then.

What to do

Student A and Student B complete this form: Form-JES04A. Submission and other instructions are on the form.

IT IS DUE BEFORE THE STEP 04B MEETING. So, the deadline listed online that reads "JES04" is for the report due after the meeting. This step, therefore, needs to be finished a day or so ahead of your scheduled meeting and the meeting needs to be scheduled in a way that you can meet the deadline.

Both students should watch for an ACCEPTED from me within 48 hours (sooner in the summer). If the submission was rejected for some reason, respond promptly. Slow response might incur late penalties.

Step 04B face-to-face meeting to decide the two films to be compared: Description of the meeting and its results

This meeting happens after both students have sent to me their JES04A.

Student A has responsibility for completing this form: Form-JES04B. Submission and other instructions are on the form. BUT, since it is my preference that this form be submitted during the face-to-face meeting, if Student B is the one with the computer, etc., it is OK by me for that student to complete the work. In any event all errors, failures to submit, late submissions and so on are SHARED so I recommend students work together and send out, while both are still present, a form both team members are happy with.

Both students watch for an ACCEPTED from me within 48 hours (sooner in the summer). If the submission was rejected for some reason, it is the responsibility of Student A (no matter who actually wrote or sent the report) to respond promptly. Slow response might incur late penalties. NOTE: I will hit "Reply all" to your submission. If both emails are not on the incoming submission to me, one team member might not know the result of my log in process. AND if the missing student email is Student A then that person might not even know there remain things to be done. Avoid this!