TASK 1
Watch The Lego Movie Trailer and then screen shot the following shots into a word document (one page per image)
1. Clapper board
2. Coffee Instruction board
3. The uniform traffic
4. Batman striking the gate control 'first time'
5. The micro managers descending from the sky
6. Liam Neeson as 'Bad Cop'
7. Morgan Freeman as Vitruvious
TASK 2
Beneath each image describe in detail what happens in that particular sequence e.g. "Just as with physically produced films, the clapper board features 'slate' details of the directors, shot....." or "just as with Lego kits, the coffee board advert shows instructions on how to..."
TASK 3
Annotate each image with the appropriate Postmodern term
Bricolage
Homage
Pastiche
Parody
Meta
Intertextual Reference
Simulacrum
TASK 4
Link each Postmodern term to one of the following explanations:
1. Purpose "critique of consumerism and social conformity"
2. Paradox "Characters in The Lego Movie fight capitalist oppression, but the film also functions as an advertisement for two multinational corporations: Warner Bros. Entertainment and The Lego Group. "
3. "ironic distance between Batman’s seriousness, as if he were in a Nolan film, and the character’s actual absurdity"
4. Self reflexive awareness of the text as an artificial construction
5. Critique of the action/fantasy/sci-fi/comic book ... genre
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