SHREK FILM STUDY UNIT

A set of five highly visual powerpoints containing ongoing focus questions, task slides and vocabulary and concept building, created to widen understanding during the class viewing of SHREK. There is also a handout on vocabulary learned during the film study. This unit of work contains most of what you will need for a close film study.

The emphasis is on a visually engaging presentation of the essential details of genre, setting, character and theme, with the slide content created specifically for student note taking and regular set questions for class discussion. There are culminating tasks on each slide set to revise and summarize what has been learned.

Set One - INTRODUCTION TO SHREK
* Reason for mass age group appeal
* Outline of origins of story
* How book is adapted to film
* Reflection task on the appeal of modernized fairy tales

Set Two - SETTING AND GENRE
* Time / Place framing
* Foreshadowing & expectations through setting and genre
* Fairy tale conventions
* Conflicts in conventional fairy tales
* Historical context - medieval society
* Shrek as a conventional fairy story - writing and discussion

Set Three - VOCABULARY
* key words from the film - slides for each viewing day
* film vocabulary with part of speech, definition and example of usage
in the film

Set Four - CHARACTERS
* Framing Questions on Viewing and Evaluating characters
* The difference between character and characterization
* Elements of Characterization
* Exemplar of a sympathetic animated character
* The process of animated characterization
* Characterization of Shrek the Ogre
* Flat and Rounded CHaracters in SHREK
* Character concepts - protagonist, antagonist, confidante, stock
characters
* Test of Knowledge on SHREK characterization (with answers)
* Stereotypes in Fairy Tales
* SHREK and unconventional fairy tale characterization (with tests
for understanding)
* Summarizing writing / speaking task on characters