Film Ferris Buellers Day Off Review & Filmmaking Vocabulary Paper

Write about Ferris Bueller’s Day Off film

In this short essay, I’d like you to refrain from simplistic judgments (I liked it, I didn’t like it) and plot summary; rather, respond to the film using ONE of our main questions regarding the teen genre:

• How does the film represent the Teen experience? Where did it fail?
• Who controls the lens and to what outcome? Are these films vessels for adult longings?
• What is the relationship between this film and social change?
• Are teens more often represented or targeted in this space?

OR

• Apply the discussion in the accompanying text chapter toward the film. How are techniques explored in the text employed in the film? Provide specific details.

Push yourself to continually use different prompts to engage all aspects of critical thinking. You may utilize (and cite) outside sources, but it’s not required.

In different word document

Answer these questions

1. What is the difference between narration and narrator?

2. What are the differences between omniscient and restricted narration?

3. What are the differences between (a) the camera narrator and a first-person narrator and (b) a first-person narrator and a third-person narrator?

4. Can a major character be flat? Can a minor character be round? Explain your answer.

5. What is the climax and how does it relate to the protagonist’s pursuit of the goal?

6. How (and why) do we distinguish between the story and the plot of a movie?

7. What is meant by the diegesis of a story? What is the difference between diegetic and nondiegetic elements in the plot?

8. What are major and minor events each supposed to do for the movie’s plot?

9. Which of the following is the most common relationship of screen duration to story duration: summary relationship, real time, or stretch relationship? Define each one.

10. What is the difference between suspense and surprise? Which one is more difficult for a filmmaker to create?