Component 1: Variety of Films and Filmmaking (35%) Section A: You will compare films produced in Hollywood during the periods 1930-1960 and 1961- 1990. A particular focus of the study will be on how various social, production, and auteur contexts impact and shape films produced within them. Section B: A study of American mainstream and independent filmmaking from 2005 onwards. Here you will consider the concept of spectatorship – how do texts communicate meaning and provoke a variety of responses in spectators? Section C: Here you explore the concepts of narrative and ideology in relation to two British films. Component 2: Global Filmmaking Perspectives (35%) Section A: Here you further your knowledge of form in films from two very different contexts, focussing on their aesthetic and representational dimensions. Section B: Here you will delve into the debates relating to documentary films and the truth. Section C: We turn our attention to 1920 USSR to study the rise of Soviet Montage Cinema, as an alternative to American and European filmmaking. Section D: You will analyse Quentin Tarantino’s postmodern classic ‘Pulp Fiction’ as an example of experimental cinema. Component 3: Screenplay (30%) This component provides an opportunity to produce high quality creative work. You will produce a screenplay for a short film that focuses on narrative construction from a list of prescribed narrative situations. The screenplay is accompanied by a digitally photographed storyboard sequence, which will indicate how the screenplay could be realised visually. Students will also provide an evaluative analysis of the work in relation to professionally produced screenplays.
70% Exam; 30% Coursework
About Education Provider
| Region | North West |
| Local Authority | Oldham |
| Ofsted Rating | Good |
| Gender Type | Co-Educational |
| Address | Union Street West, Oldham, OL8 1XU |
Component 1: Variety of Films and Filmmaking (35%) Section A: You will compare films produced in Hollywood during the periods 1930-1960 and 1961- 1990. A particular focus of the study will be on how various social, production, and auteur contexts impact and shape films produced within them. Section B: A study of American mainstream and independent filmmaking from 2005 onwards. Here you will consider the concept of spectatorship – how do texts communicate meaning and provoke a variety of responses in spectators? Section C: Here you explore the concepts of narrative and ideology in relation to two British films. Component 2: Global Filmmaking Perspectives (35%) Section A: Here you further your knowledge of form in films from two very different contexts, focussing on their aesthetic and representational dimensions. Section B: Here you will delve into the debates relating to documentary films and the truth. Section C: We turn our attention to 1920 USSR to study the rise of Soviet Montage Cinema, as an alternative to American and European filmmaking. Section D: You will analyse Quentin Tarantino’s postmodern classic ‘Pulp Fiction’ as an example of experimental cinema. Component 3: Screenplay (30%) This component provides an opportunity to produce high quality creative work. You will produce a screenplay for a short film that focuses on narrative construction from a list of prescribed narrative situations. The screenplay is accompanied by a digitally photographed storyboard sequence, which will indicate how the screenplay could be realised visually. Students will also provide an evaluative analysis of the work in relation to professionally produced screenplays.
70% Exam; 30% Coursework