I am an A Level tutor who teaches Film Studies A Level & G.C.S.E., Sociology A Level, E.P.Q., English Language G.C.S.E.
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I complete schemes of work for each of my courses and aim to upload as many resources as I can in the near future. If you like my work and would like to request a resource, please let me know and I will produce what you need.
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I am an A Level tutor who teaches Film Studies A Level & G.C.S.E., Sociology A Level, E.P.Q., English Language G.C.S.E.
*PLEASE REVIEW*
I complete schemes of work for each of my courses and aim to upload as many resources as I can in the near future. If you like my work and would like to request a resource, please let me know and I will produce what you need.
I produce video resources here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC31WbZO2OQW3Ul108I0QUmw
This pack contains a 33 slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student booklet that covers the following:
This lesson will show students how to analyse Beasts of the Southern Wild whilst applying theories of spectatorship. The lesson is structured to help students ‘build an A Level response’ to several spectatorship/ideology questions.
Starter:
Key term re-cap (key terms with missing vowels = student must identify the term then define it)
Example questions
Preferred reading - group task
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
Students to list technical approaches that encourage a preferred reading of the film
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
IDEOLOGY: - introduce the importance of ideology in driving response
Define and explore: Libeterianism and Anarchism
Tentants of Anarchism explored
Group task: students find examples of anarchistic principles found in the film
feedback
Scene analysis - opening scene (recognition / driving the preferred response
Detailed analysis of intro scenes (including ‘community party’ sequences)
Address The Levee = anti-corporate/capitalistic ideologies
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
ACTIVE RESPONSE - discussion: What does the Auroch represent?
Negotiated response
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
FEMA/Hospital scene analysis
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
Oppositional response
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
‘Beast It’ scene analysis
Bell Hook’s response to the film
NEW CONTENT: viewing BOTSW from a 2024conservative perspective: oppositional responses in 2024
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
Assessment: planning time and assessment included [optional use]
This pack contains THREE lessons. A break down of each session is listed below:
(in case you re returnign to this listing: it used tolist FOUR lessons - this was an error by myself that has been corrected)
All three lessons are fully animated, thoughtfully designed, engaging, and come with student booklets
The pack also includes a ‘screening notes’ handout - teacher’s screening notes whilst watching the film with students.
**Lesson 1- Introduction to Mogul Mowgli / production context
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Bio of director Basam Tariq
Bio of writer/star Riz Ahmed
Ted Talk from Tariz " The Beauty & Diversity of Muslim Life"
Defining terms: MOGUL / MOWGLI
Produciton context slides - covers studios involved, intent of filmmakers, support from the UK Muslim Film organisation
Research task: research Ahmed and Tariq’s inspiration for the film / their reasons for creating the film / their perspectives of representaiton of ethnic minorities in cinema.
Lesson 2- Pre-Screning / Context / Post Colonial Theory
*** Context covered**:
History of Partition
British Empire’s role in India
Consequence of Partition (At the time and modern)
Ghost Trains - phenonemon associated with Partition, and one that is central to the narrative of MM.
Trauma
Generational Trauma
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POst-Colonial Film Theory; Tony Gilroy**
Task: Indiana Jones analysis task - representation of formerly colonised groups in Western media
Overview of Post Colonial Theory (See screenshots for level of detail in slides)
Albonic Nostaliga vs. Post-Colonial Britain
‘Racial Otherness’
Ideological representation of Muslim people / Muslim way of life in cinema:
Task - analysis and student reflection
‘The Muslim Other’
Examples of ‘othering’ across different British media
Great interview of Riz Ahmed reacting to the othering of Muslim peoples
Lesson 3 - Post Screening response
This powerpoint includes all former questions for this module (up to 2022)
A history of TOBA-TEK-SINGH
Several guided tasks and activities that are designed to draw out student understanding of both NARRATIVE & IDEOLOIGICAL messaging within Mogul Mowgli.
Assessment included in this lesson.
This pack contains a 40-slide PowerPoint presentation, a 24-page student booklet, and several other resources to be used in the session.
The lesson covers:
Starter - student experiences with crime and deviance in media
Media Representation of Crime and Deviance overview: (1 slide on each of these topics:)
Violence and Sex Crimes
Media representation of victims
Media exaggeration of certain crimes
Media exaggeration of risk to victims
Crime represented as a series of events
Media overplay extraordinary crimes
Dramatic Fallacy
Soothill & Walby: the Balaclava Rapist / exaggeration of criminal acts
New Values and Coverage
Mediation of Crime / Crime as a social construct
Selection / Organisation /Focus
Task - students read Sky News article covering the mugging of Sajid Javid and analyse the use of langauge, exaggeration of crime, idelogical underpinning of this media report
(the entire article is broken down in the PowerPoint (see screenshots for examples)
News Values
Fictional Representations of Crime:
Surette [1998] – Fictional representations of crime, criminals and victims are the opposite of the official statistics.
Immitaiton
Arousal
Desensitisation
Transmission of Knowledge
Stimulating Desire
PROTRAYING THE POLICE AS INCOMPETENT or CORRUPT
BY GLAMOURISING OFFENDING
Evaluation of Fictional Representations of Crime
Reading task - students read extract from the ‘Myth of Media Violence’ study and compare the findings to what we have covered in the lesson
FEAR OF CRIME:
Distortion of crime in the media
RELATIVE DEPRIVATION AND CRIME
Left Realist view
Cultural Criminology
Cultural Criminology with examples
Global Cyber Crime
The PowerPoint has a short ‘Moral Panics’ lesson attached to it. The slides are not to the same standard as the content listed above and have been included free of charge. I have covered Moral Panics in a more depth and with better resources in a previous Crimes and Deviance lesson pack: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-sociology-paper-3-conflict-theories-of-crime-and-deviance-12790478
Tasks are included throughout the lesson and student knowledge is tested throughout the session.
The student booklet is to be filled in and completed during the lesson.
This pack contains a 20-slide PowerPoint presentation, a booklet students fill in and complete during the lesson
The lesson covers:
A Starter Task - students complete a short key term starter task - vowels have been removed, students must identify the word AND provide a definition
‘What is genre?’ recap
Types of Musicals
-Task - compare a sequence from Yankee Doodle Dandy to a sequence from The Greatest Showman
Analysis and feedback tasks
Non-Integrated vs. Integrated musicals
Richard Dyer = Entertainment as Utopia
Musicals Reflect ‘Social Tenions’ and 'Utopian Solutions
PLENARY
Grease Case study - application of all theory that has been taught in the lesson
EXT task - analysis of *La La Land’s opening sequence
This pack contains a 26 slide PowerPoint presentation addressing IDEOLOGY and meaning in J Glazer’s Under the Skin
The pack also contains a student handout, a complete (assessed) response, essay plan, additional reading materials.
I have also attached a YouTube link to a video version of this lesson students can use to consolidate their knowledge and understanding.
This lesson is ideal for anyone teaching UTS as part of the EDUQAS AL Film: Component 1 - Section C: British cinema, module.
This lesson contains a lot of content, is primarily focused on linking theory/ideology with the textual elements of the film.
The lesson covers:
Starter - re-cap sci-fi genre conventions
Introduce exam question
Starter 2 - 'How are binary oppositions used in the film Under the Skin?
Feedback - discussion of the techniques filmmakers can use to construct women on screen.
1 - Opening scene analysis - watch scene - students to analyse the opening
Detailed feedback on slides
2 - The ‘White Room’ scene -students to analyse the scene
Detailed notes on slides
3 - The ‘MALL and VAN scenes’ - adoption of gender signifiers - students to analyse the opening
Detailed notes on slides
4 - Alien in the Van / Stalking of men scene - students to analyse the scene
Detailed notes on slides
5 - The ‘disfigured man’ scene - students to analyse the scene
Detailed notes on slides
6 - Ending - chase in the woods/death of the Alien - students to analyse the scene
Detailed notes on slides
This pack contains the following lessons:
1 - Introduction to Component 3
2 - How to Generate Ideas
3 - How to Develop a Protagonist
4 - People on the Move; cinematography and editing introduction/tutorial
Bonus lessons: Wallace & Gromit - short film analysis
1 - Introduction to Component 3
Run down of Component 3
Introduce the Briefs
Introduce Short Film Analysis
The GunFighter - genre research, genre discussion, analysis of The Gunfighter
Guide: How to analyse short films
2 - How to Generate Ideas
This lesson aims to help students get started. The lesson contains a variety of tasks that should help students generate their own ideas. These include:
Development of ‘Two-sentence’ stories
Development of existing news stories
Development of Genre films
Development of aesthetics; mood board tasks
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3 - How to Develop a Protagonist**
Discussion of techniques used to introduce students’ favourite protagonist
Analysis of Raiders of the Lost Ark opening / Introduction to Indy.
Narration - define and look at different modes of narration
Task - analysis of Patrick Bateman’s introduction
Mise-en-scene task - how to develop a character visually and via mise-en-scene
**Lesson 4 - People on the Move
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A fun and engaging lesson designed to help students learn how to frame a shot, construct a short film, and edit.
Students will have one lesson to plan a 60-second/10 shot film around the concept ‘People on the Move’
One lesson to film
One lesson to edit
Lesson 5- guided detailed analysis of The Wrong Trousers:
Note - this lesson will show students how to edit using Adobe Premier. All lessons are editable so you can modify the resources.
This pack contains one 31-slide PowerPoint lesson, 1 student booklet, 1 ‘notes and analysis’ handout
The lesson covers:
1 - Aesthetics of Pan’s Labyrinth
Cold/Blue fascist world
Orange/Red/Fantasy world
Aesthetic styles: Magical Realism
Magical Realism as a mode of exploring horrors of 20th Century fascism.
Analysis =- opening scenes: use of aesthetics to communicate social/political issues related to the film
Analysis of: Ofelia's introduction / Magical realism
Analysis of: The Captain; control, order, blue/black aesthetics
detailed feedback and notes provided for each 'textual analysis' task
Asthetic inspiration: Disturbing Art
Goya's Black Painting / Saturn Devouring his Son
Analysis - The Pale Man - links to Fascism, the Catholic Church, destruction of women and children
Fascist and Catholic imagery in the Pale Man scenes - detailed exploration of key elelemts of mise-en-scene:
Stations of the Cross
Stigmata
Forbidden Fruit
The Holocaust
Assessment task included to consolidate student learning.
This pack contains:
1 PowerPoint Quiz - 31 questions [and answers]
1 - picture round - 20 questions
1 - student handout to record answers/scores
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All resources are editable**
This is a fun way to end the term!
**This pack contains a 31 slide PowerPoint addressing a contextual reading of the film. A 14 page student booklet is also included. **
This lesson covers:
**Aesthetics - magical realism, Phantasmagoria, The Grotesque in Del Toro’s work
Aesthetics of PL **- Blue/Black for the real world vs. Orange/red for the fantasy world.
Discussion of how aesthetic choices drive meaning in the film.
Consideration of past exam question (students will work towards answering this question as they go through this lesson with you)
Magical Realism - define and explore.
Magical Realism - a vehicle for exploring the horrors of the 20th century.
Dr. Tom Shippey article re: magical realism and fascism in the 20th century.
Film Analysis
Each scene is explored in DETAIL with the students. There are detailed notes provided (these can be given to students, used by teachers to inform their own reading, or ignored in favour of a student lead approach)
1 - intro to the film
2 - Intro to Ofelia
3 - The Captain
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Using Disturbing Art to reflect a disturbed world **
Discussion of 'disturbing art’
Introduction to Goya and his Black Paintings
Study of Saturn Devouring his Son - primary aesthetic inspiration for the Pale Man
**Analysis:
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4 - the Dinner scene
5 - the Pale Man - links to fascism, the catholic church, symbolism of the Pale Man as the Captain.
Assessment included.
This pack contains a 39 page PowerPoint presentation and a 16 page student booklet.
The lesson can be taught as one linear session, or split in to smaller, more manageable sessions. This lesson contains everything you need to prepare students for the contextual issues, and stylistic choices, that inform the film.
The lesson covers:
Look at past questions - looking for trends and recurring topics
Intro to film (basic production context info)
Del Toro - mini-auteur study and formation of his style / themes.
(Task - watch clips from some Del Toro films. Students to note down stylistic and thematic consistencies in his work)
Contextual Issues
What is Fascism?
History of Fascism in Europe
Franco’s Spain - rise of fascism in Spain.
Gender - how Franco’s fascist policies impacted women, minorities, non-Fascists in Spain (specific focus on women and how this informs the representation of gender in the film).
Role of the Catholic Church - links to Fascism and Franco
Additional research links
Pre-screening consolidation task - this can be re-visited AFTER the screening. Students can begin building contextual links to the film on their own/in groups before in-depth study begins with the teacher.
This pack contains a 62-slide PowerPoint and accompanying 20 page student booklet. The lesson offers a comprehensive analysis of Vertigo’s post-WWII cultural context with a focus on Post War Gender Relations.
The lesson covers:
Starter - breakdown of exam / types questions students will face
Students to discuss their response to the film and list adjectives for key characters (to be used later in assessments)
Analysis of the opening scenes (credits and roof-top chase)
Introduction of key themes: voyeurism, women under scutiny, castration anxiety/loss of masculine status
Historical Context: the cold war, 1950s as ‘Age of Anxiety’
Gender roles and gender anxiety in post war America
Image analysis: compare images of Rosey the Riveter / WWII propaganda that promotes women with 1950s advertisements that position women as domestic, passive, in the home - reflects change in attitudes toward gender roles post WWII
How were traditional gender roles reinforced?
Psycho-analysis - introduction of key concepts
re-analysis of opening sequence - explore castration anxiety in post WWII USA
Analysis of Midge’s apartment scene: castrated males, powerful women
Repetition compulsion
Ernie’s - the feminine ideal / Madeleine = the ‘ideal’
The Bell Tower - phallic image / Scottie’s trauma prevents masculine duty
Second Bell Tower scene - the return of the traditional, untraumatised male
Assessment included with a plan