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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Richard Gent | Monday January 13, 2014
Categories: Micro Analysis, Shot Analysis, Film Analysis, Film Language, Analysis, Key Concepts
Semiotic terminology applied to moving image media. Semiotics/Semiology The study of signs that help us to deconstruct film e.g. Technical and Symbolic Codes in Film Technical Codes Constructed codes e.g. Camera angle, types of shot, types of edit, type of lens, SFX, Sound, Framing, Focus Symbolic Codes Cultural Representations – in film the mise en scene can be described as symbolic codes ie they ‘stand’ for something Mise En Scene The Mise en Scene comprises – setting, objects and…
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Rob Miller | Monday October 01, 2012
Categories: OCR A Level, Micro Analysis, A Level, Hot Entries, Shot Analysis, Film Analysis, Film Language, Analysis, Key Concepts
Richard Gent | Monday September 17, 2012
Categories: Hot Entries, Shot Analysis, Film Analysis, Film Language, Analysis, Key Concepts
The Thinking Film project is comprised of DVDs of selected film clips, CD-ROMs containing downloadable, curriculum-related teaching materials to accompany the extracts as well as online CPD and additional supporting materials. Please click on the relevant subject icon below for further information on each pack as well as training programmes and other supporting materials. This project has been made possible through the generous support of the Film Distributors’ Association and all of its…
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Richard Gent | Wednesday April 25, 2012
Categories: Theory, Film Theory, Micro Analysis, Hot Entries, Shot Analysis, Film Analysis, Representation, Analysis, Key Concepts
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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abateman | Wednesday November 16, 2011
Categories: Hot Entries, Shot Analysis, Film Analysis, Analysis, Film Opening Analysis, Title Sequences
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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Caroline Bagshaw | Wednesday November 16, 2011
Categories: Hot Entries, Shot Analysis, Film Analysis, Analysis, Film Opening Analysis, Title Sequences
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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jeremy | Monday September 12, 2011
Categories: Shot Analysis, Film Language, Analysis, Key Concepts
BIG CLOSE UP (BCU)
CLOSE UP (CU)
MID CLOSE UP (MCU)
MID SHOT (MS)
LONG SHOT (LS)
VERY LONG SHOT (VLS)
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