A2 Short film

Thursday 16 June 2011

Ferris Bueller's day off

I tried to predict what would happen next after watching 10mins of the film 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' in order to familiarise myself with the concepts in blockbuster films that are predictable e.g. in romantic films the main characters in the film fall in love again by the end. This exercise allowed me to come up with more original ideas.
I think the Dean of all students will try to hunt down Ferris. He looks like an uptight man who takes his job very seriously. This idea is supported by the fact that he wears grey, which is quite a boring and dull colour. When the days that Ferris has been absent drops from 9 to 2 we see a close-up of his eyes popping; he looks like he’s about to have a heart attack. After this he starts shouting. He is represented as a man who thinks that kids are a menace to society and wants them to all be structured and regimented. Ferris stands for everything he’s against; which is the laid back approach and fun way to live life. The fact that the Dean is automatically on Ferris’s case shows us that Ferris is a constant rule breaking offender and it’s a constant battle between Ferris and the dean. I think due to Ferris’s ability to plan things and fool people strategically in order for him to be lazy he will continue having days off. I think however that he will attempt to take advantage of the days off a lot more and involve the friend that he called in his shenanigans. It generally cuts really quickly to the outside setting of trees and clouds in contrast to grey dullness of a classroom. Ferris’s bedroom is also quite messy and filled with fun stuff like a baseball glove and he chooses to spend his day outside instead sipping a drink under a beach umbrella instead of playing video games indoors.

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