Richard Gent | Monday March 11, 2024
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Non-Hollywood Films, British Film, Horror
click on image to enlarge How do genre conventions in the films that you have studied link with messages and values? (40) My chosen genre is horror and the two texts I have chosen to focus on are The Wicker Man (1973) and 28 Days Later (2002). The Wicker Man falls into the sub genre of horror and psychological thriller, with its own recognisable codes and conventions. As a film that was seen as problematical then in 1973 (hence its X/18 certificate) it has since become a cult classic exploring…
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jclarke | Tuesday April 18, 2023
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Adventure, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Comedy, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
Copyright © 2023 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 Sightseers, we are considering a film that’s regarded as a contemporary ‘classic’, and perhaps even a ‘cult’ film. There are a wealth of ideas to engage with in the…
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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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jclarke | Thursday March 10, 2022
Categories: Genres & Case Studies, GCSE, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Thriller, Drama, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Representation, Audience, Film Language
click on image to enlarge Introduction Exploring films that have been produced outside of those made and distributed globally by the Hollywood film studios offers us an exciting opportunity to broaden our horizons: in terms of storytelling (the way of telling, or organizing the elements of a story), the stories themselves become of broader interest in other cultures and their cinemas. Watching films from around the world, rather than only those made by American and British film producers is an…
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Rob Miller | Sunday January 23, 2022
Categories: Genres & Case Studies, World Cinema, GCSE, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Tsotsi, Drama, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Representation, Audience, Film Language, Crime
Clips Tsotsi Opening Sequence Tsotsi End Sequence Further Reading Studying Tsotsi: Judith Gunn (Auteur Publishing) Awards Best Foreign Language Film - 2006 Academy Awards Institutional Factors and Representation of People, Places, Events and Issues Tsotsi (urban slang – thug) is a film based on a novel by Athol Fugard set in the impoverished township of Soweto, Johannesburg in South Africa – Fugard is best known for his plays with political narratives opposing the historical South…
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Rob Miller | Friday October 01, 2021
Categories: OCR A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Romance, Comedy, Drama, British Film, Film Analysis, Analysis
Institutional Factors | Distribution Submarine was written and directed by Richard Ayoade and released at UK cinemas in March 2011 after significant critical success at festivals including the London Film Festival (LFF) but particularly the Toronto Film Festival. Toronto success secured the film a distribution contract with the Weinstein Company (formerly Disney owned Miramax) – Bob and Harvey Weinstein’s company in essence can be described as a ‘Mini Major’ film…
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Graham Panton | Wednesday November 13, 2019
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Richard Linklater, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
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jclarke | Tuesday September 10, 2019
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Romance, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Independent Film
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jclarke | Tuesday September 10, 2019
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Documentary, Film Analysis, Analysis
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jclarke | Sunday September 08, 2019
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Silent Era, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Romance, Comedy, Silent, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
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jclarke | Monday February 11, 2019
Categories: Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Drama, Horror
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Morag Larsen | Friday January 25, 2019
Categories: Codes & Conventions, Deadpool, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Analysis, Film Trailers
Deadpool (2016) Yes, it is a superhero film, albeit with spoof elements, fully deserving of the hybrid description of superhero/comedy. As officially the 8th film in the X-Men franchise it takes a satirical look at the genre, whilst also following the codes and conventions within a familiar formula – Wade Wilson wears a superhero costume that could be argued is a cross between Iron Man and Superman, he has special powers (a classic convention), the film is produced by Marvel (a superhero…
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jclarke | Saturday January 19, 2019
Categories: OCR A Level, Gus Van Sant, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Thriller, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Independent Film, Crime
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jclarke | Wednesday November 28, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, World Cinema, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Crime
YouTube Link:
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jclarke | Sunday November 25, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Documentary, Film Analysis, Analysis
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jclarke | Wednesday October 17, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Adventure, Genres & Case Studies, World Cinema, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Action
YouTube Link:
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jclarke | Saturday October 13, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Comedy, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
YouTube Link:
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jclarke | Sunday September 16, 2018
Categories: A Level, GCSE, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Film Analysis, Analysis
The Dark Knight at Ten: The Joker is quite a serious matter James Clarke | Autumn Term Film Blog 1 When Wade Watts enters the Distracted Globe nightclub in Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg’s movie adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel, he walks right past The Joker. Today it is almost enough to just give the character’s name and no other frame of reference speaks to the sure foothold that the character has, not only in comic book culture but across the broader pop culture…
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jclarke | Thursday September 13, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS A2, Genres & Case Studies, World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Metropolis, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Posters, Film Poster Analysis, Representation, Audience, Film Language
European Cinema History: German Cinema of the 1920s Introduction One of the most rewarding aspects of Film Studies is to be found in recognising how films produced at one, quite distant moment in time often made long ago, continue to influence more contemporary films with which we might all be more familiar. This is certainly true of the impact of some examples of German cinema produced in the 1920s. If you watch Edward Scissorhands (1990), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Bringing out the…
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jclarke | Monday September 10, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Independent Film, Crime
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jclarke | Friday September 07, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Romance, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
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jclarke | Monday September 03, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Crime
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Richard Gent | Thursday August 16, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, European Film, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
YouTube Link:
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jclarke | Wednesday August 15, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, European Film, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Fantasy, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, War
YouTube Link:
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jclarke | Wednesday August 15, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, World Cinema, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Documentary, Man With A Movie Camera, Film Analysis, Analysis
YouTube Link:
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Darin Caudle | Friday July 06, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, Fancis Ford Coppola, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Thriller, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Mystery
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrhRsZ56b4g Copyright © 2017 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. Guide Navigation The Conversation Single Film Study: Part 2 Rationale Section A of Paper 1 focuses upon the micro-elements of film form and the construction of meaning…
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Darin Caudle | Wednesday July 04, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Comedy, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pdqf4P9MB8 Copyright © 2017 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. Guide Navigation La La Land Single Film Study: Part 2 Contexts Context of Production Damien Chazelle had initially conceived of the idea of making a musical that was…
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jclarke | Thursday June 28, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
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jclarke | Wednesday May 23, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, European Film, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, French New Wave, Avant-Garde, Crime
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jclarke | Monday May 14, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, Adventure, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Science Fiction, Film Analysis, Analysis
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jclarke | Monday May 07, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, Silent Era, Adventure, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Comedy, Film Analysis, Analysis, Action
YouTube Link:
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jclarke | Wednesday April 18, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Billy Wilder, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Romance, Comedy, Film Analysis, Analysis
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Richard Gent | Thursday March 01, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS A2, A Level Film, World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Non-Hollywood Films, Key Concepts
Click to see our Revision Part 1: Knowledge Organisers The exam reports from the Summer 2018 AS exams identified areas for development which may well be similar for the A Level students taking the exam this summer. I certainly identified with some of the issues as they were very similar to ones I had seen on the student attempts at the Mock exams. A knowledge organiser (KO) sets out the important, useful and powerful knowledge on a topic on a single page. Linked below are Knowledge Organisers…
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Richard Gent | Tuesday February 27, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, A Level Film, World Cinema, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Non-Hollywood Films, Key Concepts
Click to see our Revision Part 1: Knowledge Organisers The exam reports from the Summer 2018 AS exams identified areas for development which may well be similar for the A Level students taking the exam this summer. I certainly identified with some of the issues as they were very similar to ones I had seen on the student attempts at the Mock exams. A knowledge organiser (KO) sets out the important, useful and powerful knowledge on a topic on a single page. Linked below are Knowledge Organisers…
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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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Darin Caudle | Wednesday January 10, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Science Fiction, Film Analysis, Analysis
Guide Navigation E.T. the Extra Terrestrial Single Film Study: Part 1 Key Sequence Analysis E.T. goes home (final scene in the film) – 1:43:53 – 1:50:59 The sequence begins with a close-up on the makeshift communicator that Elliott and E.T. have constructed, an important prop that signifies E.T.’s ability to transform the everyday items of childhood and suburbia into something fantastical. As Elliott approaches the communicator, the lights from E.T.’s mothership beam down causing the…
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Darin Caudle | Wednesday January 10, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Science Fiction, Film Analysis, Analysis
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vikiwalden | Friday January 05, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Film Noir, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Crime
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vikiwalden | Friday January 05, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, Stagecoach, John Ford, Adventure, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Film Analysis, Analysis, Western
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Richard Gent | Thursday January 04, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, Silent Era, Adventure, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Comedy, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
YouTube Link:
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Richard Gent | Thursday January 04, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, Raging Bull, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Sport
YouTube Link:
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vikiwalden | Friday December 08, 2017
Categories: OCR A Level, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Mystery
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Barry Rainsford | Wednesday November 29, 2017
Categories: OCR A Level, David Wark Griffith, Silent Era, The Birth of a Nation, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, History, War
YouTube Link:
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jclarke | Wednesday November 22, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Film Library, Crime
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jclarke | Wednesday November 22, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Ava DuVernay, Selma, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, History
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Richard Gent | Thursday November 09, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Mike Leigh, Secrets and Lies, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
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Richard Gent | Thursday November 09, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Trainspotting, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
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vikiwalden | Wednesday November 08, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Edgar Wright, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Comedy, Film Analysis, Analysis, Horror
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jclarke | Thursday October 19, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Adventure, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Fantasy, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
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Darin Caudle | Friday October 06, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Winter’s Bone, Debra Granik, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
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