Film Studies - La La Land - Introduction to Musicals [EDUQAS]

This pack contains a 20-slide PowerPoint presentation, a booklet students fill in and complete during the lesson

The lesson covers:

• A Starter Task - students complete a short key term starter task - vowels have been removed, students must identify the word AND provide a definition

• ‘What is genre?’ recap

• Types of Musicals
  -Task - compare a sequence from Yankee Doodle Dandy to a sequence from The Greatest Showman

• Analysis and feedback tasks

• Non-Integrated vs. Integrated musicals

Richard Dyer = Entertainment as Utopia

Musicals Reflect ‘Social Tenions’ and 'Utopian Solutions

PLENARY

Grease Case study - application of all theory that has been taught in the lesson

EXT task - analysis of *La La Land’s opening sequence