Richard Gent | Wednesday August 24, 2011
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Legacy
New WJEC Eduqas GCSE Film Studies Resources We are developing a series of new resources for the new GCSE and A Level Film Studies specs. The first resources will be a series of case studies of specific films. Legacy Resources 2013-2018 WJEC GCSE Film Studies Superhero and Film Outside Hollywood Overview Welcome to Edusites Film’s comprehensive resources and materials links covering all aspects of the WJEC GCSE Film Studies Superhero Specification (Summer 2013-2018 Award). Studying film is…
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jclarke | Thursday March 10, 2022
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, The Wave, Genres & Case Studies, Drama, Thriller, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Audience, Film Language, Representation
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: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, World Cinema, Tsotsi, Genres & Case Studies, Crime, Drama, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Audience, Film Language, Representation
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 | Tuesday November 01, 2016
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Analysis
This resource is to be used in conjunction with the in-depth Unit 2 Controlled Assessment Guide. 3 productions will be evaluated: Short 2-minute Film Sequence which creates tension or atmosphere School Magazine Feature based on the production of the film – 2 pages including star/director interviews, biographies, and at least two captioned images Poster Campaign for the film – 3 different posters These productions will be evaluated using the key questions below: How did your…
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Rob Miller | Tuesday September 13, 2016
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE
Q1. (a) Identify one important place in your chosen film. (2 marks) Rainer’s home is an important place in the film as an adult contrast to the school, pool and classroom environments. (b) Briefly describe this place. (3 marks) Anke arrives with flowers while Tim and Rainer are preparing food in the kitchen of their home; Rainer’s home represents a form of domesticity and normality. It is a home where Rainer and Anke both live together as a couple and provides a brief haven for Tim after…
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Rob Miller | Tuesday September 13, 2016
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE
Associated Resources Paper 1 Resource Material.docx Q4 c Annotated Poster.jpg The four-minute clip is an extended opening sequence and trailer from Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) that introduces audiences to key characters including Captain America/Steve Rogers played by Chris Evans and Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff played by Scarlett Johansson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORJAE3pVOMY Q1.(a) Identify one example of sound used in the extract. (1 mark) Fast paced non-diegetic…
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Rob Miller | Thursday September 08, 2016
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Batman v Superman, Deadpool, Genres & Case Studies, Action, Action Adventure, Superhero, Hot Entries
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Batman v Superman) is a 2016 blockbuster superhero movie produced by DC, and distributed by Warner Bros. From a marketing point of view (common question 3 in Paper 1) it is an attempt to compete with the most successful franchise in film history – Marvel Cinematic Universe, whose recent films have been distributed by the owner of the franchise, Disney Motion Picture Studios. To simplify, Marvel and DC Comics were,…
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Rob Miller | Thursday April 16, 2015
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Genres & Case Studies, Superhero, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Film Language
Superman (1978): First recognised, and globally successful superhero film of the modern era. Marvel: American publisher of comic books, frequently pertaining to the superhero genre founded in 1939 e.g. Hulk, Thor, Fantastic Four, Spider-man, Iron Man and Wolverine. Disney acquired (bought and owned) Marvel in 2009. Stan Lee: At age 92, Stan Lee is president and chairman of Marvel Comics and co-creator and writer of Spider-man, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man and X-Men among others. Marvel…
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Rob Miller | Tuesday November 11, 2014
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Films & Case Studies, World Cinema, 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 World Cinema Context This lesson would be delivered between weeks 21-23, in April/May as a preparation for Paper 2: Exploring Film Outside of Hollywood. It is expected that pupils have not studied world cinema and are relatively unfamiliar with non-English language films at GCSE level, or…
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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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jclarke | Thursday July 10, 2014
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Ratcatcher, Genres & Case Studies, Drama, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Audience, Film Language, Representation
click on image to enlarge Introduction Lynne Ramsay’s film Ratcatcher is a key British production of the late 1990s and is notable for its thoughtful and sensitive focus on the representation of a young person. The film explores the representation of childhood, guilt and atonement in a dysfunctional environment. Although on the paper 2, GCSE list of films, Vicky LeBeau’s analysis of the narrative and ideological function that children typically embody in movies can apply when she writes…
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Rob Miller | Wednesday April 16, 2014
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, X-Men, Non-Hollywood Films, Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Devil’s Backbone, Genres & Case Studies, Superhero, Hot Entries, Mock Exams, GCSE Mock Exams
Associated Resources
WJEC GCSE Film Studies Mock Exam Paper 1 A Grade Response 2013.docx
WJEC GCSE Film Studies Paper 2 A-B Exemplar The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.docx
WJEC GCSE Film Studies Mock Exam Paper 2 A Grade Response 2013.docx
WJEC GCSE Film Studies Mock Exam Paper 2 D-C Grade Response 2013.docx
WJEC GCSE Film Studies Paper 2 Non Hollywood Exemplars
WJEC GCSE Film Studies Paper 1 A-B Grade Response Summer 2014.docx
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jclarke | Wednesday April 16, 2014
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Rabbit Proof Fence, Genres & Case Studies, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Audience, Film Language, Representation
click on image to enlarge In this resource we will consider the film Rabbit Proof Fence (2002) and explore some aspects of its film style, by which we mean the choices made the filmmakers in terms of how they deploy sound and vision. As such, we are considering the storytelling devices with which the film expresses a range of meanings and values embodied within the drama. Through the way that the stylistic choices of the film’s producers’ (writer/director/producer/actors/camera/sound/music)…
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Rob Miller | Thursday March 13, 2014
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Analysis, Film Analysis, Genres & Case Studies, Superhero, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Audience, Film Language, Representation
click on image to enlarge WJEC GCSE Film Studies Paper 1 Superhero Film Codes and Conventions It was not until Superman in 1978 that the superhero film genre took off with the film securing critical and commercial success and for many years creating a genre template. This is why when we talk about historical examples of the genre it is difficult to cite examples before 1978 as in terms of cinema the genre has only featured broadly since the late 1970s. Yes, you could talk about Batman on…
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Rob Miller | Wednesday March 12, 2014
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Iron Man, Genres & Case Studies, Action, Action Adventure, Adventure, Science Fiction, Superhero, Hot Entries
click on image to enlarge Paper 1 | Superhero Film Case Study | Iron Man (2008) Institutional Factors Literary Origins Production and Funding Distribution Cast and Crew Iron Man is a successful film franchise - Iron Man 2 (2010), Iron Man 3 (2013) and rumours of Iron Man 4 are all based on Marvel Comics characters developed by Stan Lee in 1963. In terms of the 1960s comics, ‘Iron Man’ Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey Jr. in all three films) is an American billionaire playboy,…
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jclarke | Thursday March 06, 2014
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, The Devil’s Backbone, Genres & Case Studies, Drama, Horror, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Audience, Film Language, Representation
WJEC GCSE Film Studies Paper 2 Exploring Film Outside Hollywood: The Devil’s Backbone (2001 – Spain/Mexico) Introduction In his book The Uses of Enchantment, Bruno Bettelheim writes that “The deep inner conflicts originating in our primitive drives and our violent emotions are all denied in much of children’s literature, and so the child is not helped in coping with them. But the child is subject to desperate feelings of loudness and isolation, and often experiences mortal anxiety.? [1]…
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Amy Charlewood | Wednesday February 12, 2014
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Persepolis, Genres & Case Studies, Animation, 1990 Onwards, Biography, Drama, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Audience, Film Language, Representation
WJEC GCSE Film Studies Paper 2 Exploring Film Outside Hollywood: Persepolis (2007) Introduction and Synopsis Persepolis (2007) is based on a graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi’s called The Complete Persepolis and is a coming-of-age memoir that tells of the author’s experiences growing up during and in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. Persepolis was also adapted into a 2007 animated film of the same name, written and directed by Satrapi along with Vincent Paronnaud. …
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Rob Miller | Friday February 07, 2014
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Audience, Film Language, Representation
click on image to enlarge Students need to produce one Film Exploration and one Production broken into: Film Exploration (must be the same film for both tasks) Industry Research: 10 Marks Micro Analysis: 20 Marks Production Pitch: 10 Marks Pre Production: 20 Marks Production: 30 Marks Evaluative Analysis: 10 Marks Total: 100 Marks: 50% of GCSE NB. The Controlled Assessmentmust not be based on the examined topic, 2013-2015: The Superhero Genre. WJEC say: “The work is designed to draw on…
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Rob Miller | Friday October 04, 2013
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Films & Case Studies, American, Hollywood Films, Non-Hollywood Films, World Cinema, Genres & Case Studies, Hot Entries
Non-Superhero Films – Areas of Study Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011): Production values and genre Titanic (1997): Film Form, Narrative, genre and representation Cloverfield (2008): Genre and production values The Bourne Identity (2002): Narrative, film franchises and genre The King’s Speech (2010): Film Form, Film funding, genre and representation Gulliver’s Travels (2010): Hybrid comedy, Action Adventure Star Trek into Darkness (2013): Genre, sequels, franchises and…
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Rob Miller | Wednesday January 09, 2013
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, X-Men, Non-Hollywood Films, Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Genres & Case Studies, Superhero, Hot Entries, Mock Exams, GCSE Mock Exams
Associated Resources
WJEC GCSE Film Sudies Mock Exam Paper 1 2013.docx
WJEC GCSE Film Studies Mock Exam Paper 2 2013.docx
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Rob Miller | Wednesday January 09, 2013
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Genres & Case Studies, Superhero, Hot Entries, Mock Exams, GCSE Mock Exams
Associated Resources
WJEC GCSE Film Studies Paper 1 Mark Scheme 2013.docx
WJEC GCSE Film Studies Paper 2 Mark Scheme 2013.docx
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karenardouin | Wednesday December 19, 2012
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, The Devil’s Backbone, World Cinema, Genres & Case Studies, Drama, Horror, Hot Entries
Associated Resources
WJEC GCSE Film Studies Paper 2 Non Hollywood High Level Exemplar The Devil’s Backbone.doc
GCSE Film Studies Paper 2 Non Hollywood B Grade Exemplar.doc
GCSE Film Studies Paper 2 Non Hollywood C Grade Exemplar.doc
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vikiwalden | Monday November 05, 2012
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Yasmin, Genres & Case Studies, British Film, Drama, Independent, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Audience, Film Language, Representation
Paper 2 | Non-Hollywood Film | Yasmin Synopsis The opening of Yasmin reveals a Britain where racism prevails. Khalid and his son (Nasir) open the shutter of the family shop, which has been coated in racist graffiti. Nas proceeds to sing morning prayers – his voice echoes over the city and surrounding hills through the loud speaker - calling everyone to prayer. Several Muslims are seen hurriedly preparing, except one - Yasmin. In a field, just outside of town, she swaps her hijab for skinny…
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Rob Miller | Monday October 01, 2012
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Analysis, Film Analysis, Micro Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Your Highness, Genres & Case Studies, Action Adventure, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Hot Entries
nicoleponsford | Wednesday September 12, 2012
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Hot Entries, Starters, KS4 Film Studies Starters
A-Z of Films Students are to think as many films as they can either for one letter: ‘A’ is for Amelie, American Pyscho. Or they have to think of one for A, then B etc. Test Your Technical Knowledge Show a music video and get the students to write down as many examples of a moving image technique: Camerawork Editing Sound Mise En Scene Special Effects As music videos are about 3 minutes long, you have time for them to discuss/ share their thoughts as a class. A Mix Up Using key words, jumble…
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nicoleponsford | Monday September 10, 2012
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Thor, Genres & Case Studies, Superhero, Hot Entries
Paper 1 | Superhero Films Case Study | Thor Synopsis Earth Puente Antiguo, New Mexico. Three astro-physicists are in the desert: Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard) and Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings). They are studying atmosphere disturbances and aurora. When a lightning storm starts, they head quickly towards it in their van. The van hits a man and they stop. The victim is a handsome, well built young man. He is not dead, but semi-conscious. Asgard A voiceover (Anthony…
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vikiwalden | Thursday September 06, 2012
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, World Cinema, Genres & Case Studies, Children, Drama, Families, History, War, Hot Entries
Paper 2 | Non-Hollywood Film Synopsis 8 year old Bruno doesn’t have a care in the world as he pretends to be a plane flying through the streets of Berlin, on his way back from school. He is blissfully ignorant of the terror happening around him – Jewish families being rounded up and transported out of the city. When he returns home however, his family are preparing for a celebration. His father, Ralf, has received a promotion that means they must all leave the capital; a move that will…
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