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Making a Cake

MCU Glenthorne High School 2012

• Look at your recipe card• ‘Make’ your cake• Take it out of the oven (draw it)

Now compare them- are they all the same?

• What other ingredients can you add?• What other tins could you use?• Add them to your drawing/draw it from scratch

Now compare them, are they all the same?


How can we apply this to Film studies?• All the cakes were very similar at the

beginning because their ingredients did not vary.

• So far all we have studied in film studies are mainstream narrative films.

• If we vary the ingredients (conventions) of films and serve them up to a different audience, then we can create something very different.


Aims

• To understand what the focus of your A2 exam is.

• To know what the different sections are.• To start to develop an understanding and

appreciation of non-mainstream film.


FM4 – Varieties of Film Experience

• Your exam topics are all focussed on alternatives to the mainstream.

• There are 3 sections to the exam:• Section A – World Cinema – International Film

Styles (Surrealism) 35 marks.• Section B – Spectatorship Topics – Experimental

and Expanded Film/video 35 marks.• Section C – Single Film – Critical Study 30 marks


Section B markscheme

• Level 3


Section B markscheme

• Level 4


So how can a film be experimental?

• Jot down ideas- what could films experiment with?

• Discuss in pairs films that you have seen that were experimental in some way. What did they do that was different?– What was the effect on the audience?


What can film-makers experiment with?

• Time• Place• Method• Technology• Editing• Narrative• Repetition


Homework


Entertainment & Humor

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