Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Character types and genre & Production and Social Contexts

This pack contains TWO lessons.

Lesson 1 - Social Context &

• Intro to film and module
• Review of past paper questions - these are used to structure the entire session and all students will be able to answer the questions by the end of the session
• Film’s genre and director/stars
• Genre
• Series of key scene analysis tasks covering: genre, CHARACTER TYPES

Lesson 2 - Production Context

• What is ‘Production Context’
• Review of past paper questions - these are used to structure the entire session and all students will be able to answer the questions by the end of the session
• How to compare the films directly
• Social context: 80s, latch-key kids, Booming economy, new understanding of ‘teenagers’, teens re-positioned as important consumers
• Reaganism and rise of patriotic attitudes in the USA
• John Hughes; Auteur
• Example exam questions, tasks
• Students are guided through the response and analysis needed for each question
• Assessment task and essay plan included in PowerPoint