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Legacy OCR A Level Film Studies »

Richard Gent | Wednesday January 17, 2018

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR A2, OCR AS, Legacy

New OCR A Level Film Studies Resources We are developing a series of new resources for the new A Level Film Studies specs. These include an overview planner, teaching guide, online slides, student workbook and a glossary. Legacy Resources Welcome to Edusites Film’s comprehensive resources and materials link covering every aspect of the OCR AS and A2 Film Studies specification. Studying film is a skill and a pleasure for both students and teachers focussing on key areas of academic study and we…
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Submarine Case Study »

Rob Miller | Friday October 01, 2021

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR AS, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, British Film, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Hot Entries

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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OCR AS Film Studies Foundation Portfolio in Film »

Rob Miller | Monday September 14, 2015

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR AS

The purpose of this unit is to build upon the broader macro skills developed in Unit F631: Film Text and Context. This is an individual portfolio. The unit is marked out of 100 and comprises four elements: A textual analysis of two contemporary English language film texts (40 Marks) Evidence of planning for a creative artefact which should be related to the textual analysis (10 Marks) A creative artefact (30 Marks) An evaluation (20 Marks) It is strongly advised that you spend significant time…
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Film Studies Contemporary English Language Film: Gone Too Far! and Sightseers »

Rob Miller | Friday September 11, 2015

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR AS, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Gone Too Far!, Sightseers, Genres & Case Studies, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama

This resource will be studying the seven frameworks for analysis in Gone Too Far (2014) and Sightseers (2012). Gone Too Far! Authorship Gone Too Far! (GTF) is a British-Nigerian comedy/social realist drama directed by Destiny Ekaragha. She is only the third black British woman to have directed a feature length film that received UK theatrical distribution (cinemas). All of her previous short films premiered at the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) while GTF premiered at LFF in October 2013 and had…
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OCR AS Film Studies F631 Extended Exemplar: Film Text and Context »

Rob Miller | Wednesday September 09, 2015

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR AS

Section A: Contemporary English Language Film 1. How are the key messages and values communicated in the two films you have studied? (40) The two films I have studied are Richard Ayoade’s 2013 British independent film, The Double and the 2013 American film, Saving Mr. Banks which explores the working relationship between Walt Disney and the writer of Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers. The Double is a dystopian vision of the future (and the past) through the eyes of a central protagonist who is…
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Exemplar WJEC & OCR AS Lesson Plan | An Introduction to the Film Industry »

Rob Miller | Wednesday November 12, 2014

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR AS, EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, FM1, Film Industry, Hot Entries

Associated Resources Edusites Lesson Plan Template.docx NB. Please note this is a suggested template, your school may require a different layout. Length of Lesson (minutes): 60 Lesson Title: An Introduction to the Film Industry Context This lesson would be delivered in the first week after induction of an AS Film Studies course, whether WJEC or OCR. It is a generic introduction to the core Film Studies concepts underpinning this academic subject. Aims and Objectives To introduce students to…
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Film Studies Induction Resources and Activities »

Rob Miller | Friday November 07, 2014

Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, A Level, OCR A Level, OCR AS, EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Hot Entries

Welcome to FilmEdu’s Film Studies Induction Resource – please find belowsuggested only ways of introducing WJEC and OCR AS Film Studies students, and also GCSE students to the study of Film. Schemes of Work and assessment deadlines are tight these days but there is always/should always be an Induction Week, or week and a half at the very start of the course when the students/pupils can grapple with the fundamentals of the subject. What is Film Studies? In one sentence, write down what you…
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OCR AS Film Studies Revision Quiz »

Rob Miller | Wednesday March 19, 2014

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR AS, Hot Entries, Quizzes, Film Studies Quizzes

click on image to enlarge Open OCR AS Film Studies Revision Quiz Click on the back button to return to FilmEdu when you’ve finished using the quiz.
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OCR AS Film Studies Revision Workshop »

Rob Miller | Wednesday January 15, 2014

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR AS, Analysis, Film Analysis, Hot Entries

click on image to enlarge Book A Half or Full Day Revision Workshop in Your School Programme Details Edusites Film provides visually dynamic, interactive Revision Courses on Contemporary English Language Film dedicated to, and focusing on specification requirements. We have experts on all areas of the specification from F631 Section A, covering a range of British and American texts and exploring key areas of representation, messages and values. It is envisaged for Section B that centres will…
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OCR A Level Film Studies Recommended Texts »

Rob Miller | Tuesday January 14, 2014

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR A2, OCR AS, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Hot Entries

AS Film Studies Section A Films to teach 7 Frameworks for Analysis – Representation, Messages and Values, Genre, Narrative, Theme, Style and Authorship Red Road (2006): Style and Authorship Fish Tank (2009): Style, Representation, Messages and Values, Genre and Authorship Millions (2004): Style, Genre and Authorship Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Style, Genre and Authorship Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (2005): Style, Representation and Authorship Frankenweenie (2012): Style, Representation…
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The Impact of World War Two on British Cinema »

jclarke | Tuesday December 03, 2013

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR AS, Analysis, Film Analysis, Film History, Cinema in Context, Film Industry, Censorship & Regulation, Copyright & Licensing, Film Distribution, Film Marketing, Film Publicity, Film Promotion, Production Companies, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, In Which We Serve, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Genres & Case Studies, Drama, Romance, War, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Audience, Film Language, Representation

click on image to enlarge World War Two impacted ferociously on Great Britain: cities were attacked by German bombers, air battles were fought and daily life was severely tested over the six years of conflict. It’s understandable though, if the war seems a long, long time ago to you. Cinema, however, offers us a meaningful way to reconnect with, and reflect on the event and to develop a sense of the relationship between World War Two and British cinema. Attendance at cinemas was acutely…
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Spectatorship and Early Cinema Before 1917 »

jclarke | Saturday November 30, 2013

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR A2, OCR AS, EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS A2, FM4, Section B: Spectatorship Topics, Analysis, Film Analysis, Film History, Cinema in Context, Film Industry, Censorship & Regulation, Copyright & Licensing, Film Distribution, Film Marketing, Film Publicity, Film Promotion, Production Companies, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Audience, Film Language, Representation, Theory, Spectatorship Theory

click on image to enlarge Cinema is now nearly 120 years old and it’s a magnificently broad, deep, complex and exciting subject. It’s understandably easy to think that the way films are now is how they have always been, in terms of their technology and particularly how they organize (tell) their stories. However, this isn’t the case and so it’s important for us to be aware that all forms of cultural expression evolve across time and that they are subject to many influences, intended or…
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Developments in 21st Century Cinema and Film (2000-Present) »

jclarke | Wednesday November 27, 2013

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR A2, OCR AS, EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, EDUQAS A2, Film History, Cinema in Context, Film Industry, Censorship & Regulation, Copyright & Licensing, Film Distribution, Film Marketing, Film Publicity, Film Promotion, Production Companies, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Avatar, World Cinema, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Audience, Film Language, Representation

click on image to enlarge Film is technology. It’s an obvious point, and an essential one. Film established itself as a symbol of the modern, mechanical age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and so it is particularly interesting to now witness how the medium is moving into the digital age. Indeed, we should perhaps talk not of new technology but of now technology because it is so quickly ever changing and evolving. In Western Europe we live in an increasingly digital and…
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Authorship in Contemporary Cinema: The Films of Danny Boyle and Tim Burton »

jclarke | Tuesday November 19, 2013

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR A2, OCR AS, EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, EDUQAS A2, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Directors, Danny Boyle, Tim Burton, Hot Entries, Theory, Auteur Theory, Film 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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Film Regulation and Classification »

jclarke | Thursday November 14, 2013

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR A2, OCR AS, EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, EDUQAS A2, Film Industry, Censorship & Regulation, Hot Entries

click on image to enlarge Britain is one of the most highly regulated nations in the ‘west’ in terms of what can be shown at cinemas and in this resource we will explore aspects of the institutional roles of film regulation and classification and the dynamic that is legally required to operate between the institutions of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and the film industry. To put it very simply, if you want your film distributed and shown to the paying public, at a cinema…
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Film and Audience Experience »

jclarke | Wednesday November 13, 2013

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR A2, OCR AS, EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, EDUQAS A2, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Audience

Everyone seems to enjoy talking about movies. Why is that? Not everyone enjoys talking about sport or politics or literature or cookery or healthcare for example. The variety of movies we talk about is diverse. Films are made to be watched by audiences. It’s the most obvious fact to state but it does remind us of a set of fundamental concerns. This resource will concern itself with a number of issues that you can also revisit in more detailed in several of our other FilmEdu resources. For…
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Social Realism Case Study »

Rob Miller | Monday December 10, 2012

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR AS, Analysis, Film Analysis, Film History, Genres & Case Studies, Social Realism, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Audience, Film Language, Representation

Origins and Development Social Realist films originate in the 1950s/1960s but drew in terms of their form and style from the British documentary tradition of the 1930s popularised by the GPO Film Unit (Nightmail) who ultimately became the Crown Film Unit at the start of WW2 (Fires Were Started, Britain Can Take It). In the 1960s social realist films became critically and commercially successful and benefitted from the fact that television was only a feature in some middle class households –…
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Technical & Symbolic Codes for Moving Image »

Rob Miller | Monday October 01, 2012

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR AS, Analysis, Film Analysis, Micro Analysis, Shot Analysis, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Film Language

Associated Resources Technical and Symbolic Codes - Moving Image.ppt
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OCR AS Film Studies Scheme of Work »

Rob Miller | Monday October 01, 2012

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR AS, Hot Entries

Scheme OCR AS Film Studies SOW.doc Associated Resources OCR A Level Film Studies Overview Concepts Understanding the Macro and Micro Features of Film Textual Analysis of Film - Internal Assessment Planning for a Creative Artefact - Internal Assessment (Storyboarding) Producing / Editing Creative Artefact - Internal Assessment (2 Minute Theatrical Trailer) Evaluation Cinema in Context (Industry - Blockbuster / Multiplexes / 21st Century Technology) Skills Textual Analysis - Identifying and…
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KS5 Film Studies Starters »

nicoleponsford | Wednesday September 12, 2012

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR A2, OCR AS, EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, EDUQAS A2, Hot Entries, Starters, KS5 Film Studies Starters

Synergy Starter Ask students to come up with as many ways that they can use synergy to sell a film. You can give them the genre / narrative, or get them to come up with this. Works best in small groups. Compare and add to one another’s ideas. See What is Synergy? for assistance. Explore The Theory ICT Give the students a range of film theories to explore. You can share these out amongst the group, or get them to focus on one a lesson so you can discuss it later. Examples include Post…
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AS OCR Film Studies: Contemporary English Language Film »

nicoleponsford | Tuesday September 11, 2012

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR AS, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Hot Fuzz, The Woman in Black, Genres & Case Studies, Action, British Film, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Independent, Mystery, Thriller, Hot Entries

In both the exam and in the coursework, candidates will be asked to study English Language Texts. They are NOT able to study the same texts for both sections and will prepare for this in different ways. For example, the coursework will act as a catalyst for their creative work in their portfolios. In the exam, students will have part of a two hour exam to answer a specific (unseen) question on an aspect of the film. Both the coursework and examination texts will have shared aspects. This is…
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