Richard Gent | Tuesday March 28, 2023
Categories: Genres & Case Studies, Amores Perros, World Cinema, Films & Case Studies, Genre, Narrative, Research, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Title Sequences, Representation, Shot Analysis, Audience, Film Theory, Film Language, Auteur Theory, Theory, Mexican, Social Realism
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: IB Film Resources, IB, IB Film, Silent Era, Genres & Case Studies, Film Industry, World Cinema, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Non-Hollywood Films, Genre, Narrative, Key Skills, Film Research, Research, Key Concepts, Analysis, Representation, Audience, Film Theory, Film Language, Spectatorship Theory, Queer Theory, Auteur Theory, Theory
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: OCR A Level, EDUQAS A Level, A Level Film, Film Industry, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Mise-en-Scene, Genre, Narrative, Key Skills, Editing, Pre-Production, Planning, Cinematography, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Posters, Representation, Audience, Film Theory, Film Language, Spectatorship Theory, Queer Theory, Auteur Theory, Theory
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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abateman | Friday October 16, 2015
Categories: Hot Entries, Film Theory, Theory
Life, as no doubt we have all noticed, is for the most part rather more mundane and less predictable than that and films like Chungking Express seek to capture that ‘normality’. The real messages that the film is trying to convey about Hong Kong, its people, their relationships, globalisation and the apprehension felt in the run up to the handover of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule in 1997 is told not through the traditional narrative structure but through the visual elements such as…
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jclarke | Tuesday February 11, 2014
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Genres & Case Studies, Film Industry, Production Companies, A Level, Hot Entries, Film Distribution, Film Marketing, Film Publicity, Film Promotion, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, British Film, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Representation, Audience, Film Theory, Film Language, Theory
click on image to enlarge While we often first think and refer to contemporary examples of film stars when we study film, it’s useful and valuable to consider film stars whose work has featured across several decades. More specifically for us as British audiences, it’s of particular interest to consider British film stars both in terms of the interest of their performances, and also in terms of how these performances offer representations of national identity and gender in combination.…
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jclarke | Tuesday November 19, 2013
Categories: OCR A Level, EDUQAS A Level, OCR A2, EDUQAS AS, EDUQAS A2, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Film Analysis, Analysis, Film Theory, Auteur Theory, Theory
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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Amy Charlewood | Monday February 04, 2013
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS A2, Amores Perros, World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Representation, Audience, Film Theory, Film Language, Theory
It is important to firstly consider the context of this unit as an exploration of world cinema. World cinema is difficult to define; with most definitions reverting to that it can be defined simply as any cinema outside of the globally dominant industry of Hollywood or any non English language cinema. Often discussed as an alternative to Hollywood’s ‘dream factory’, World cinema tends to be perceived as possessing certain features offering an insight into another country’s culture, a…
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jclarke | Thursday December 20, 2012
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Genres & Case Studies, Film Industry, Production Companies, A Level, Hot Entries, Film Distribution, Film Marketing, Film Publicity, Film Promotion, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Trainspotting, British Film, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Representation, Audience, Film Theory, Film Language, Theory, Social Realism
Ewan McGregor is a major British film star who has appeared in a wide range of films that have been released globally since 1994. His career has combined performances in a range of lower budgeted feature films and work in highly budgeted, event films released by the major film studios. Over the course of almost twenty years McGregor has appeared in nearly fifty films. Professionally trained as an actor at London’s Guildhall, McGregor hails from Scotland and the narrative of his career…
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nicoleponsford | Thursday August 23, 2012
Categories: A Level, GCSE, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Film Theory, Film Language, Theory
Apparatus Film Theory ‘Apparatus’ is another word for the means in which a specific production is created. In the case of film / cinema, the film projector and the screen. Apparatus Theory is a model of spectatorship and institutions. It argues that cinema is ideological (based on ideas) because the films are created to represent reality. This means that because film is created to illustrate different ideas, everything has meaning - from the camerawork to the editing. It argues that…
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Richard Gent | Wednesday April 25, 2012
Categories: Hot Entries, Micro Analysis, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Representation, Shot Analysis, Film Theory, Theory
We had an enquiry recently about Postmodernism which led to some productive responses. Ellen Grundy’s approach involved: (L)ooking at representation and postcolonialism (as follows): A research task on Gurinder Chadha and her films. How do her life and the themes of her films suggest a post colonial identity? For example Bend it like Beckham as a coming together of different ethnicities / cultures. The classic clip of going for an ‘English’ in Goodness Gracious Me that turns…
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vikiwalden | Thursday November 17, 2011
Categories: A Level, Hot Entries, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Film Theory, Film Language, Theory
What is Auteur Theory? There are various debates underlining the existence of Auteurs; how to define an “Auteur? has been much theorized. The original concept took birth in the pages of the Cahiers du Cinema in the 1950s, particularly voiced by French Nouvelle Vague filmmaker, Francois Truffaut. Truffaut was both very critical of the trend in French cinema to identify the author as the screenwriter and very aware of both his, and his other Nouvelle Vague counterparts’ signature styles. In…
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