Film Studies

Assessment

The weighting for the course is 70% exam assessment and 30% practical element to be examined at the end of the two-year course. Component 1 – Film History assessed by written examination: 2 hours; 105 marks; 35% of A-Level • Film form through the ages from the silent era to the 1990s • European film movements or stylistic developments Component 2 - Critical Approaches to Film assessed by written exam: 2 hours; 105 marks; 35% of A-Level • Develop an understanding of key critical approaches to film • Develop knowledge of narrative, genre, representation and spectatorship Component 3 – Making Short Film: Non-examined Assessment; 90 marks; 30% of A-Level • The production of a five-minute short film or a ten-minute screenplay for a short film, to include a digital storyboard an evaluative analysis of the production in relation to professionally shot short films