Good Morning/Evening parents, teachers and other parties, I would like to welcome you here on behalf of the student body to discuss and reflect on how the study of film in senior English has changed my outlook on the world in certain ways. I have chosen to explore a view of the world thanks to the study of film as a text as for me, it has been the most beneficial and meaningful of the aspects studied. Throughout senior English I have studied and deconstructed various films, such as American Beauty, Six Degrees of Separation and The Insider.

The deconstruction of these filmic texts has given me the tools to be able to read the underlying message of the text and question the different ideals presenting in the films. I have learnt that there is more to a film then simply a storyline, with such techniques as...