Richard Gent | Tuesday March 28, 2023
Categories: Analysis, Film Analysis, Shot Analysis, Title Sequences, Films & Case Studies, World Cinema, Amores Perros, Genres & Case Studies, Mexican, Social Realism, Key Concepts, Audience, Film Language, Genre, Narrative, Representation, Research, Starters, KS5 Film Studies Starters, Theory, Auteur Theory, Film Theory
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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Rob Miller | Thursday July 16, 2015
Categories: A Level, EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, FM1, Analysis, Film Analysis, Film Opening Analysis, Macro Analysis, Micro Analysis, Shot Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Grand Budapest Hotel, Gravity, Skyfall, The Shining, Up, Non-Hollywood Films, Submarine, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Genre, Narrative, Representation, Key Skills, Cinematography, Editing, Filming, Mise-en-Scene, Planning, Pre-Production, Reflective Analysis, Production Zone, Moving Image Production
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: Analysis, Film Analysis, Micro Analysis, Shot Analysis, Key Concepts, Film Language
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: A Level, OCR A Level, OCR AS, Analysis, Film Analysis, Micro Analysis, Shot Analysis, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Film Language
Richard Gent | Monday September 17, 2012
Categories: Analysis, Film Analysis, Shot Analysis, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Film Language
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: Analysis, Film Analysis, Micro Analysis, Shot Analysis, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Representation, Theory, Film 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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abateman | Wednesday November 16, 2011
Categories: Analysis, Film Analysis, Film Opening Analysis, Shot Analysis, Title Sequences, Hot Entries
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: Analysis, Film Analysis, Film Opening Analysis, Shot Analysis, Title Sequences, Hot Entries
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: Analysis, Shot Analysis, Key Concepts, Film Language
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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