10 Things I Hate About You

Seven Topics for Discussion - these cover your first written response questions, so learn them well.

The essays linked to below offer pretty informed answers.  Read them, take notes, see if you can put together an outline for an essay for each question - long enough to keep you writing for 50 minutes.

1. How mainstream audience values inform feature film.  Example Essays.

2. Stereotypes and the effects of using stereotypes in feature film.  Example Essays.

3. The factors that affect feature films produced in a large-scale institution.  Example Essays.

4. The influence of globalisation on feature films and trends in media use, genres and/or styles.  Example Essays.

5. The effect of controls and constraints on production.  Example Essays.

6. The narrative structure, narrative element, codes and conventions, meaning and theme of the film.  Example Essays.

7. How meaning is encoded by the producer of the teacher selected feature film and decoded by audiences.  Example Essays.