Richard Gent | Tuesday March 28, 2023
Categories: Theory, Film Theory, Mexican, Auteur Theory, Social Realism, Research, Amores Perros, World Cinema, Genre, Narrative, Shot Analysis, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Title Sequences, Key Concepts
Copyright © 2018 Edusites. All rights reserved. Permission granted to reproduce for educational use within the subscribing school only. Copying or lending of any part of this document in any form or by any means to external bodies and / or individuals is prohibited. In studying a film such as Amores Perros, a film that’s widely regarded as a ‘classic’, there’s a wealth of discourse to engage with. Worth noting immediately is that translated into English, the title…
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Richard Gent | Friday January 26, 2018
Categories: Theory, Film Theory, Auteur Theory, Research, Spectatorship Theory, IB Film Resources, IB, IB Film, Silent Era, Queer Theory, World Cinema, Film Industry, Film Research, Key Skills, Genre, Narrative, Audience, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
So what do we need to do for students and teachers to perform brilliantly? Our resources are a guide to producing critically autonomous students who gain a wide range of skills in the study of film and truly make the transition from film fan to film student. Reading film Examine film as an art form, studying a broad range of film texts from a variety of cultural contexts and analysing how film elements combine to create meaning. Contextualising film Explore the evolution of film across time and…
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Barry Rainsford | Wednesday September 13, 2017
Categories: Cinematography, Theory, Film Theory, OCR A Level, EDUQAS A Level, Auteur Theory, Spectatorship Theory, A Level Film, Queer Theory, A Level, Film Industry, Key Skills, Mise-en-Scene, Genre, Narrative, Editing, Pre-Production, Planning, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Analysis, Posters, Key Concepts
The Edusites programme of study for A Level Film has been designed to provide a Core Unit for each term to help students develop the right level of knowledge and understanding of the key critical approaches and all the framework concepts of narrative, genre, representations, and spectatorship. Our NEA Support Materials will focus on Making a Short Film for OCR NEA and Production for Eduqas NEA. Edusites A Level Film Programme of Study: Unit 1 Language+ OCR - click to view Unit 1 Language+…
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Rob Miller | Wednesday September 03, 2014
Categories: EDUQAS A2, Theory, EDUQAS A Level, Auteur Theory, Bollywood, World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
click on image to enlarge By comparing the cinematic styles used in the films you have studied for this topic, is it possible to identify a distinctive ‘National Cinema’? Indian cinema means different things to different people and there are a lot of different cinematic styles originating from the Indian subcontinent. Stereotypically, when western audiences without cultural capital or knowledge think of Indian films the iconic name ‘Bollywood’ comes to mind, or less widely known outside…
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jclarke | Tuesday November 19, 2013
Categories: EDUQAS A2, Theory, Film Theory, OCR A Level, EDUQAS A Level, OCR A2, EDUQAS AS, Auteur Theory, A Level, Hot Entries, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Analysis
click on image to enlarge As we know, there are a fascinating range of ways in which to explore what cinema is; for example: how it achieves its impact on an audience, how technology informs creative choices and how a particular film can tell us something of the culture that produced it. These are all ways of understanding the relationship between text and context. However, the concept that remains perhaps most popular, accessible and fundamental to our thinking about cinema, perhaps because it…
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