This is a workbook created for the Eduqas board current course ( first exam June 2019)
This has been updated again September 2021 - with an extra 30 slide PPT reviewing context, the Hays Code, the tension between Old hollywood and Wilder’s vision, images of colour stills versus the back and white
Updated 2020 and added quick fire PPTs - great for revision!
It covers the broad range of ideas with the film: context, history, aesthetics, auteur, cinematography, male gaze, gender bender. It has a suggested main essay question, short work tasks, and various stills from the film
It is not per se a viewing log, but should be used before during and after viewing.
Kia Ora,
Exam prep PPT added 2024 UK series
updarted Janu 2024! too with three new PPTS including one which gives a short but important factual details about NZ/ being Maori and Jewish which is Waititi’s background! One linking gender and humour in the film there is also and
update from June 2023 - added a sentence starter PPT for exam revision post the Summer 2023 UK exam series
this resource has been re-written for the new eduqas film studies GCSE set texts global - and I am excited! I lobbied for this film to be considered so YAY!
The workbook has been updated [ april 2022] and has a detachable back page if you want to avoid the spoiler of Rosa. It’s 22 pages and will form an teaching and revision guide
The workbook takes the students through the who what and why - and with the PPTS should get them ready to answer some questions as well as provide a solid introduction to the satire of the film, the context and filming.
There are three PPTs ** see uodates now 5+ - the longest is aimed at film, but can work with an English subject eg the NZ curriculm and will fit into an extended media study of film
The two worksheets are to support film viewing for any of the subjects as the teacher can select the emphasis
The longer PPT has a research task, an end of module essay.
Youtube markers are current as at 27/09/2020
I anticipate adding to this so please check in for updates after the UK summer 2024 exams - although this film will not be examined until 2024 by eduqas. I will be uploading more questions in August 2024
This is targetting OCR media A Level music video [ MV}
The links are current at March 2024 - but you will need to update the MV set text SUN GOES DOWN from youtube yourself - the offical version is the one referred to
As a point of comparision The old town road is suggested: to understand a bit more about the artist
The resouce introduces shot/camera/costume exploration, and detailed lyric exploration while reflecting on the artists role in hip hop and as part of the LGBTI community and conflicts with hegemony.
It does contain a bad language warning - and a reminder that this MV does refer to thoughts of suicide. OCR chose it - not me !!!
This PPT spreads over 4-5 lessons - with writing tasks ege 4 - 5 hours -
UPDATES Jan 2024 - New Music PPT to support CONTEXT
& PPT Gender and Race - New Hollywood [ revision ]
This workbook is 30+ pages to support A Level film study - for the Eduqas exams 2019 + .
The PPTS have beem added to: tfor example the rise of the BUPPIE
The workbook covers initial reactions to the film with some original reviews, it has sections on cinematograpy, props and costume, context and narrative, with a strong focus on Lee the auteur : celebrity auteur or ‘sellebrity auteur’. It looks into Mookie: the hero or anti hero, and the complexity that Lee wrote, directed and starred in the film. There is a model scene analysis, and prompt for students to start their own.
There are plenty of opportunities for students to record their own responses, and work alone, but this workbook is designed to be used with teacher support, and peer interaction.
There are discussion prompts, questions to begin paragprah writing to build into essay responses that address that this film is part of Component A - a comparative study. ( Although this workbook is stand alone and does not assume which film it will be paired with)
I like these books to be visually appealing so they look best when printed in colour. Please be respectful and do not put this work on line for your students. It is a word format so you can easily modify and insert your school logo etc., if you want.
UPDATED 2024
This is a whole introduction unit for All About Eve - targeting Eduqas and WJEC :
It does assume two things: one the teacher has some experience in teaching film and the language of film for GCE. and that the student has already had some basic film language taught
Of the new films, this really is one of the easiest that is going to write up well. As Old Hollywood, it’s a bit of a gift, using stardom, studio power, it’s Academy Award status, the cinematography and performance, costume and of course, dialogue
This is constructed for examination purposed for the UK exam boards for A Level
UPDATED April 7 2024 workbook - in word doc
New addition June 2024: theory of trauma and idealogy
[ Addition : making a link to the politics of pretty I have added a PPT which reflects students reading around the subject and idealogy - it has a quite difficult essay task but my students enjoyed it as some had read ’ women dont owe you pretty’ ]
The workbook has been updated as I continue teaching this, with real world student input. I have dipped more into ideology- gender, misogyny, continued looking at the aesthetics of cuteness, and how spectator is constructed . There is a newer section on the ‘femme fatale’
PPT1 It is a focused on how meaning is made, spectatorship and ideology and the context [67 slides0
PPT 2 is focused on the ideology of being cute and #toxicmasculinty
PPT 3 looks at some of the failures in the film - it’s a discussion prompt with several examples including the look alike to Bridget Bardot homage
PPT1 suggests viewing broken down to 3 sessions - and has short and long writing task and some discussion breaks. It also has a selection of film shots for students to explore as well in depth of how meaning is made through soundtrack, costume, context and milennial ideas of feminism - however teachers can adapt to how they teach film /length of lessons
With 67 slides - there is enough for about 10-12 one hour lessons
[It does not teach basics of film, because no one teaching this, is likely
be using it as their first text and cinematography basics would have been taught already! ]
PPT1 has some useful links - which at January 2024 are active - and a short teaching rationale for teachers
Please note I always charge very little for resources which takes hours to put together and therefore, respectfully ask you do not put my work online as your product :)
Whilst this targets A Level OCR it can be used for any board for revision: the PPT takes students through the basics of ACT 1, what really is the absolute minimum of expectation of knowledge [ teaching!]
It could be used as an online self paced module - it does have writing tasks and esssay question - a student could use this if they are concerned they need more than they have been taught, in progresive linear format
This is a work book for Film studies - as the film has a high restricted rating, it is assumed this film is done in a Year 13 class after a year of film study - so this DOES NOT go over film language as it is assumed students have already been taught basics.
The workbook is structured to explore auteur: Tarantino as the Director and, as Music sound track auteur which has become his trademark. It looks at trademark shots such as the trunk shot - the elliptical narrative, the role of discombobulated dialogue, the casting
The work book could be use as part of a remote learning scheme, but would be better suited to explicit guided viewing. The role of how differently audiences react, hyper reality, binary theory is covered in questions students should respond to.
This is a first run 30 PPT introduction to the film/documentary and 3 further PPTS - connecting F is For Fake Orson Welles to Exit, one asking Who is Banksy
and one asking who is Guetta
All have some essay questions to encourage students to think more deelpy about the complexity of fake versus fictions, authenticity, art and art fraud, and the role of graffiti
It assumes it will be teacher led and the main PPT is approximately 1/2 before and 1/2 post viewing
I introduce ideas about authenticity, cinema verite, voice over narration, and there is a slide in which the I list the sequences - this would be best printed for students!
There are writing ideas and discussion points
I have assumed students have a knowledge of the language of film and therefore the deep dives are limited to what is more unique to the documentary
This should cover somewhere between 3-5 lessons excluding viewing
This is for students to revise expectations for Component 1. It reviews the marks awarded, the timings and the gritty specifics to Comp 1. This resource is only suitable for use with teacher guidance and is only accurate to GCSE after the Summer GCSE 2018. It is quite prescriptive with timings, and working smart with the question marks and Section B.
It is an A3 format. Hope it helps.
A few exam series in, I have added a short PPT based on how my students wrote about Formation and scored overall near 100% on MV questions - they were pushing for links that were out of the ‘box’ and drilling down on ‘media’ the artist and the poltics of Music |Videos per se- Hope it helps
Contains 4 PPTS
1] This is a 90 slide PPT introducing formation:
This is a teacher led PPT and covers:
Beyonce’s connection to the Black Panthers
New Orleans Bounce culture
Relevance of Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath
Connections to Slavery
Awards
The Superbowl release
Oblique references to policing and #BLM
Costume/Mise en scene/ framing
Of the 90 slides about 12 are selections from the Music Video which focus on key moments suitable for evidence for writing task evidence - there are so many frames to choose from - what is included in this 90 PPT is A selection
This PPT is in a sense a generic unit - you may for example want to use the
2] DO NOW PPT which is a separate PPT at various stages interspersed in the main PPT I have assumed there is a general knowledge about cinematic terms and that is NOT included
3] PPT close analysis of 6 frames - this demonstrates to students how to use media language in dissecting frames each frame should have further analysis done by students - based on ‘I model, you know do’
4] PPT 4 is short extension PPT on mediated histroical stereotypes of Black women
I have been teaching City of God since 2009: in three countries and this is my updated resource[s] as at October 2021
Suitable for A level, IB or NCEA
Targets Eduqas A Level film - Global Cinema
and assume this is NOT the first film being taught!
Includes
PPTs for chronological teaching ( 2)
PPT for curated independent extending reading suitable for home learning
PPT Cinema Novo
PPTs include questions
Word doc guide to PETAL essay writing for films
PPT of film shots for guided analysis
Links etc were checked 2021 October
The poems are for AQA Crime
They are for teachers who know how to teach poetry at KS5 and they are sectioned to work through in an order building knowledge
Browning then Wilde than Crabbe
These PPTS do NOT focus on low level line by line analysis but link to higher order thought - deep links to the AO’s : if students do not write to the AOs they get lower marks. Teachers are advised to review these - this is not self paced work, not suitable to post as work from home - more suitable for students who want and work towards A* A B or a higher C
FILM STUDY
This is a set of 10 PPTS as the introduction from first to second viewing of the film. I have assumed that the teacher leading this knows how to teach film and has reviewed the film!
The PPTS use stills, and questions to prompt students to securely locate the Britishness in this film using cinematic evidence
It is not however, an introduction to cinematic terms so I have assumed basics have been taught eg lighting props costume
It has only a few youtube links which are all working at the time of upload
This does dig into the context of era so has some challenging ideas about the Thatcher era, racism and as such students should continue to be trigger warned - a heading from the Times used is genuine, sadly.
This is a teacher led - or student led work through on what is likely to be , or not be the central poem in the Summer 2024 series
It also has a short refresher on Garland and Weir, as female poets, not yet chosen as central poems, and I am NOT suggesting they will as my crystal ball is quite cloudy on this
But it does help the students reduce the selection of poems to 10 more likely candidates and help them chose from those not likely under the rules to be used again, to prepare.
Looking back, so many thought My Last Duchess was too long, not tiered etc, and how wrong was that?
This PPT merely reviews the maths - and with Poppies and Kamikaze - how to use very short quotes - dip into the language features.
It is not an exhaustive resource - more a filler last push or homework revision
This is a student workbook which allows them to view and make notes and explore in depth the ‘britishness’ of the film
The work would/should occupy about 8-10 lessons
I print it single sided and encourage them to build on the reverse pages there on own ideas and story boards so it become a solid revision tool for them
This is workbook for Winters Bone suitable for Eduqas A Level new curriculum 2018+
addition to resource revision also for AS exams 2023
addition to resourcce revision PPT Feb 2021
This approximately 32+ pages - it is best used by being printed in colour.
It has quite a bit of technical teaching for film - eg 3pt lighting, camera shot, costume. It is assumed that this film might be at the beginning of teaching A Level film and therfore introduces more techinical language.
However, the prupose is to teach spectatorship and the work book is geared towards the Eduqas ( WJEC) a level
A condition of purchase of thi resource is that it will not be shared on-line. It is supplied in word foramt so that you can personalise it.
PPTS, work book and essay template
I have been teaching Pans Lab., since 2008 and there are heap of resources out there: this is suitable for IB or A Level - I have used fo both. It is MY take on how to teach it, over 20 hours including film viewing. Th resources require teacher guidance, except the one PPT of pre viewing - this is my curated guide for students to work through by themselves before any teaching/viewing of the film! I have updated it October 2021 - if there are broken links please let me know!
The remaining PPTS - are for one guided teaching and vewing, one for cinematography, and one for revision pre exam - so four in total.
The work book is word doc and editable: and the word template doc is for PETAL structure paragraphs to build a structured essay for film.
Do check back as I am compiling a resource PPT - eg magazines and exam questions - I have the 2021 UK Autumn papers and will be paraphrasing from and you can down load that when it is available!
This is a stand alone lesson - it would take 2-3 hours to complete - it could be set for online, or if a student feels they need more than they have been taught - this is what revision should look like and could be done collaboratively online
It is is best teacher led and requires a teacher to have a sound knowledge of the play
Contains essay task - suitable for OCR but this will work with any A level board
This is a PPT with some external links [ working at the time of upload] suitable for online or teacher assisted learning
The PPT encourages the students to think about the role of the witches with Macbeth, and about how we might perceive different interpretations of witches
It has a short writing task question