Film Studies

Course summary

For this specification, these underpinning elements have been used to create a framework for studying film, which learners will be able to apply to all the films they explore: - The key elements of film form – cinematography, mise en scène, editing, sound and performance - The structural elements of film form – narrative and genre - How film creates meaning and generates response, including how it functions as a medium of representation - Film as an aesthetic medium - The spectator and spectatorship - The social, cultural, political, historical and institutional, including production, contexts of film - Critical approaches to studying film - Key debates and filmmakers’ theories of film.