GCSE Film Studies

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GCSE Film Studies

Overview of the specification(slides produced by Gerard Garvey)

GCSE Film Studies

Course designed to give flexibility Encourages an integrated course structure (combining topics and ‘coursework’-like activities)

Rationale

Aim to: build on student experience introduce students to broad range of film

(some perhaps less familiar) encourage students to gain some appreciation

of industry and audience context to films gain some understanding of how films shape

people’s views

Rationale

Three inter-related study areas:

Film (Film Language)

Organisations Audiences

Overview of course

50%

Exploring & Creating

20%

Film outside Hollywood

Exam: 1 Hour

30%

Exploring Film

Exam: 1.5 Hours

Coursework

Exploring Film

Develop knowledge and understanding about filmStudy of film language (‘micro’, ‘macro’, how and what films communicate)Study one set genre Set genre for first examination in Summer 2009 and last examination in 2012 will be Disaster films. Gain an awareness of the contemporary film industry (mainly Hollywood) and of the audiences for film.

Exploring Film outside Hollywood

Candidates study one film produced outside Hollywood from a prescribed list in terms of:

• characters • narratives• representations • themes/issues raised by the film• how film language contributes to those representations

External Assessment – Exploring Film Genre Set

4 Compulsory Questions (stepped questions) Respond to an unseen moving image extract

One question on film language

One question on genre Respond to a still image

One question on marketing/promotion Creative Tasks

Series of creative tasks assessing knowledge

and understanding of films in relation to

audience and industry

Assessment: Film outside Hollywood

3 Compulsory Questions

One question on representation in close study film

People, places, events One question on issues raised in close study film One creative task

Centred on personal response – reviews, forum posting

Exploring & Creating

Four main elements:

Film ExplorationWritten exploration of ‘micro’ features in an extract of candidates choice (350 -750 words)

Pitch & Preproduction

150 word pitch for an imaginary film. This should form the basis of the preproduction tasks (chosen from a set of four options)

Production Chosen from a set of 5 options

EvaluationBrief reflective evaluation on learning about key study areas (Film language, audience and organisations)