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WJEC AS Film Studies FM1 Exploring Film Form Scheme »
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Non-Hollywood Films, Mise-en-Scene, Macro Analysis, Up, Gravity, Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shining, Skyfall, Genre, Narrative, Key Skills, Editing, Pre-Production, Planning, Micro Analysis, Cinematography, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Film Opening Analysis, Representation, Shot Analysis, Moving Image Production, Production Zone
Overview Analysis of a 3-5 min Film Extract – Mise-en-Scene, Cinematography and Editing only: (30 Marks) Creative Project – Planning, Producing and Editing a 2 min approx. film sequence of between 10-25 shots (50 Marks) Reflective Analysis – (10 Marks) Edusites Film recommends a logical time to introduce the FM1 coursework is in week 6, the second week in October, 1 week before the Half Term. By then, students will have learnt skills of textual analysis in regards to micro and macro…
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Analysing Film Title Sequences »
Categories: Hot Entries, Film Analysis, Analysis, Film Opening Analysis, Title Sequences, Shot Analysis
Functions of the Title Sequence The functions of the title sequence in a film may seem to be fairly obvious. They are designed to tell the audience the names of the people and organisations involved with the making of the film and in this respect they do the job well. Irrespective of the genre, there is a conventional way of presenting this information in the credit sequence. This information and the order in which it is presented follows a standard format. Later in this study we will be…
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Children of Men | Analyse Film Opening »
Categories: Hot Entries, Film Analysis, Analysis, Film Opening Analysis, Title Sequences, Shot Analysis
Click on the link below to download a frame for analysing the opening of the film Children of Men. Film Opening Children Of Men.doc ‘It’s just an idea for group work deconstructing an interesting text (especially because, unusually, this one starts in the middle of the disequilibrium, rather than establishing an equilibrium first of all, so is good for narrative theory. Also, our “hero” is rather unheroic (he doesn’t return to the aftermath of the bomb to…
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