Richard Gent | Thursday August 08, 2024
Categories: Science Fiction, British Film, Film Studies Skills, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, GCSE, Film Industry, Skyfall, Genre, Narrative, Tsotsi, Scriptwriting, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Independent
Edusites Film GCSE is NEW! We are a volunteer-run nonprofit, dedicated to supporting you! Your contributions go directly towards professional resource development and maintaining our services. We would love to hear from you. If you're facing any challenges or have suggestions on how we can improve, please don't hesitate to reach out. Your feedback is invaluable in helping us better serve your needs. Contact me here Component 1 Section A Films for Examination 2025 Choose one of the…
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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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Richard Gent | Monday September 11, 2017
Categories: Cinematography, OCR A Level, EDUQAS A Level, A Level Film, A Level, Film Industry, Key Skills, Mise-en-Scene, Genre, Narrative, Editing, Pre-Production, Planning, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
Would you like to see an example of an A Level Film Lesson from Edusites Film? Below is a link to a single lesson online slide show focusing on Cinematography using The Bourne Identity. The Cinematography lesson from both the teacher guide (scheme of learning) and student workbook are below to illustrate the breadth and depth of the resources being published on Edusites Film. Film Representation Unit 2 Lesson 17: 12 Slides For fast and optimum viewing use Safari, Firefox or Internet Explorer…
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Emily Prentice | Sunday October 16, 2016
Categories: Cinematography, IB Film Resources, IB, Film Industry, Key Skills, Mise-en-Scene, Genre, Narrative, Editing, Pre-Production, Planning, Audience, Film Language, Representation, Key Concepts
All work refers to the Edusites Lesson Resource Slides Pack. Lesson One: The Tool Kit 13 Slides Objectives Knowledge : To start acquisition of the Film Studies Film Language tool kit Learning : To build ideas of how to study film through its products Understanding : To consolidate understanding by completing analysis of products Starter/Loop Activity (5 minutes) Slide 3 Task 1A Pupils asked to respond to the task from the Lesson Resource: Analysis of film still of Will Smith. Students to write…
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Rob Miller | Wednesday September 09, 2015
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Drama, Action, Action Thriller, Western, Thriller, A Level, Genre, Narrative, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
Dirty Harry (1971, Don Siegel) Gran Torino (2008, Clint Eastwood) Centres can choose from a range of different American film texts: the three main areas of study are Messages, Themes and Values, Narrative and Genre, Representation of Time and Place (often linked to messages and values) and Representation of Character. You can compare in Section B but in Section C you must. The above choice of texts reflects films belonging to the same genre but it is very possible to explore two films that…
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Rob Miller | Monday September 07, 2015
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Crime, A Level, Ridley Scott, Genre, Narrative, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese) American Gangster (2007, Ridley Scott) Centres can choose from a range of different American film texts. The three main areas of study are Messages, Themes and Values, Narrative and Genre, Representation of Time and Place (often linked to Messages and Values) and Representation of Character. You can compare in Section B but in Section C you must. The above choice of texts reflects films belonging to the same genre but it is very possible to explore two films…
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Rob Miller | Thursday July 16, 2015
Categories: Cinematography, EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Micro Analysis, A Level, Hot Entries, Key Skills, Mise-en-Scene, Macro Analysis, Up, Gravity, Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shining, Skyfall, Genre, Narrative, Editing, Pre-Production, Planning, Production Zone, Shot Analysis, Moving Image Production, Film Analysis, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Non-Hollywood Films, Analysis, Film Opening Analysis, Key Concepts
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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