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 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:
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 has been designed for the updated EDUQAS Film Studies specification; first teaching SEPTEMBER 2023
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This pack contains 1 52-slide PowerPoint presentation, and an accompanying 23-page student booklet
This lesson has been designed to cover the key social and political contexts surrounding the production of *Alien. *
1 - starter task - students to discuss then share/debate their own readings of the film
**2 - Starter Task 2 **- Students to review their own knowledge of 1970s America - feedback
**CONTEXT: 1970s USA was a time of immense upheaval across all levels of society **
Major social/political issues are listed and discussed
Key social issues relating to the study of the film are highlighted and reinforced here
Discussion about the use of CORPORATIONS as antagonist in 70s/80s ‘liberal science fiction films’ - establishes that Alien was part of larger trend that tapped in to social issues of the time
CONTEXT continued:
GLOBALISATION - defined and discussed
Consequence of GLOBALISATION on the US workforce/economy
Rise of corporations
Union busting / anti-union sentiment and action
Strikes and calls for workers rights dominate the era
Rise of NEOLIBERALISM as a formative force in US society
FILM ANALYSIS
Task - students reflect on their new contextual knowledge; create mind-map of all elements of Alien that link to, comment up or reflect these social issues
Analysis - Part 1 - The Nostromo - Workplace of the Future
Analysis of the film’s opening sequences
Student analysis task
Feedback with students - detailed notes are included in the PowerPoint to help students develop and consolidate their learning
What do the academics say? - a series of quotes from academic papers that reinforce and support our reading of the film
Analysis - Part 2 - Character introduction -
Student scene anlaysis - Breakfast / roles within the organisation
**Identify key themes that are established: **workers pay, exploitation, bonuses, working conditions!
Feedback with students - detailed notes are included in the PowerPoint to help students develop and consolidate their learning
**Character types/roles - **
Several short scenes are chosen and analysed. Extracts from the screenplay are highlighted, with specific links between character dialogue/characterisation and contextual issues studied earlier
Discussion of each crew member; their role and what they represent within the NEOLIBERAL structure of the CORPORATION
Analysis Part 3 - Character types
A discussion and break down of each character’s role on The Nostromo - a look at how each crew member represents a different type of worker
Ripley as ‘the perfect worker’
Analysis Part 4 - The Xenmorph
Xenomorph - scene analysis
Representation of ‘physical emodiment of the Corporation’s greed’
Analysis Part 5 - Ripley
Detailed analysis of Ripley from a feminist perspective - all points linked to contextual issues re: 2nd wave feminism
This pack contains TWO lessons.
Lesson 1 - Social Context &
Intro to film and module
Review of past paper questions - these are used to structure the entire session and all students will be able to answer the questions by the end of the session
Film’s genre and director/stars
Genre
Series of key scene analysis tasks covering: genre, CHARACTER TYPES
Lesson 2 - Production Context
What is ‘Production Context’
Review of past paper questions - these are used to structure the entire session and all students will be able to answer the questions by the end of the session
How to compare the films directly
Social context: 80s, latch-key kids, Booming economy, new understanding of ‘teenagers’, teens re-positioned as important consumers
Reaganism and rise of patriotic attitudes in the USA
John Hughes; Auteur
Example exam questions, tasks
Students are guided through the response and analysis needed for each question
Assessment task and essay plan included in PowerPoint
This pack contains a 31-slide PowerPoint Presentaiton and accompanying 29 page student booklet
The lesson covers:
Starter task: In pairs, students discuss and reflect upon the design aspects of the film, specifically the Nostromo, and the Alien
Introduce exemplar question that can be set as assingment
Aethetics of Alien
Introduce ‘Metal Hurlant’ magazine and its influence on Scott
Introduce two main designers and their different design philosophies: Ron Cobb (Ship), H.R. Giger (Alien)
Task - what is the function of ‘the monster’ in horror/sci fi films? - example provided, points consolidated
Quick Re-cap of context session task
Establish the aesthetic of Sci-Fi films in the 1970s and show how Alien broke away from establishes tropes
Analysis - The Nostromo
Link mise-en-scene of the ship to meaning/contextual issues
Detailed analysis of the ship
Doors - designed to evoke the Alien’s mouth
Analysis H.R. Giger
Introduction to him/his style
Biomechanical nature of the Alien - “fusion of man and machine”
Case study - the Xenomorth - 1 - phallic symbol, 2 - psycho-sexual imagery of the film - linked to meaning and response
Analysis - The Derelict ship
Vaginal imagery of the film
Analysis - The Chestburster scene
Link to meaning - fear of feminine power, fear and anxieities surrounding gender roles in society at the time
Analysis The Xenomorph -
discussion of *Vagina dentata*
Reading - article then reflection
SUmmary
Plenary -
Essay question set / essay plan included in PowerPoint/booklet
This pack contains a 22 slide PowerPoint, and an accompanying 16-page student booklet.
The lesson covers:
Starter - students review the cinematography of Alien - feedback
Explain past questions - exemplar question included; this will be returned to at the end of the session
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Style and approach of Scott / how to start the analysis:**
Scott wanted a grimy sense of realism
Short reading activity - Scott explains how he rejected ‘traditional’ cinematographers in favor of new, unknowns - all to increase the realism of the film
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Analysis Part 1 - The Nostromo (Exterior)**
Dicsussion of techniques used, their effect
Links to social/political contexts are made
Analysis Part 2 - The Nostromo (interior) - workplace of the future
Dicsussion of techniques used, their effect
Analysis of = The Ship, the sleeping/living quarters
Links to social/political contexts are made
Analysis Part 3 - The Death of Brett - in-depth /deep dive analysis
[this task has been designed to help students develop SKILLS, as well as their knowledge and understanding of Alien)
This section will break down each shot of this sequence
Screen the extract
Students (in groups) analyse the camera
Powerpoint then goes through each shot in detail (6 slides of focused analysis)
Assessment:
Exam question
Planning activity
(Optional - set assessment)
This pack contains TWO lessons designed for the EDUQAS Film Studies course: Component 2 - Section B- DOCUMENTARY. Focus film: Amy
The lessons cover:
What does ‘filmmakers’ theories’ mean?
Introduction to Kapadia and his style
Analysis task - watch first 15 mins of Senna, and first 15 mins of Amy - what conventions does Kapadia adopt/reject in his approach to documentary?
Kapadia’s narrative film background and his ‘true-fiction’ approach
Research task
Article review to consolidation learning of Kapadia’s ‘filmmakers’ theory’
Lesson 2- Michael Moore
Who is Moore?
How does Moore define his style?
Criticisms of Moore’s style
Analysis - watch first 30 mins (or entire film) of Bowling for Columbine
Students to analyse his film and identify what conventions of documentary he uses/rejects
Detailed PowerPoint slides that explicitly explain each filmmakers unqiue approach, conventions of documentary they use and the ideological nature of their work.
plenary - essay planning and setting activity
Also included:
articles about Moore and Kapadia’s style
Sample responses
Filmmaker profiles for each filmmaker
and more…
This pack addresses the PRODUCTION CONTEXT of Alien, and it contains: TWO POWERPOINT lessons:
**POWERPOINT 1 - New Hollywood (31 slides)
POWERPOINT 2 - EMERGENCE OF THE BLOCKBUSTER (16 slides)
Both PowerPoint are accompanied by a detailed student booklet
Both PowerPoints are full of images, are animated and have been designed with student engagement in mind (see screenshots for examples)
NEW HOLLYWOOD PowerPoint:**
Starter - Vertigo production context starter task (optional)
KEY TERMS defined
Q&A - Why did the studio system fail? - test student knowledge
NEW World = New Hollywood - history of post-war USA, studios failed to resonate with the public
NEW HOLLYWOOD
How did America change in the 50s/60s?
Counterculture
Studio productions in the 60s - films that failed to resonate with the boomer generation
Rise of New Hollywood
Easy Rider - analysis and feedback task
[detailed notes included on slides]
NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS of New Hollywood
What is an ANTI HERO?
THEMEATIC & STYLISTIC conventions of New Hollywood
Bonnie and Clyde: case study -analysis tasks
[detailed notes included on slides]
CONSOLIDATION:
Short writing task
Suggested: further reading/viewing for students
POWERPOINT 2 - Blockbuster era
STARTER task: re-cap the ways Alien DOES and DOES NOT reflect the New Hollywood of filmmaking
RE=CAP@ contextual issues addressed by Alien
THE RISE OF THE BLOCKBUSTER
Student discussion: view, opinion and thoughts on ‘80s’ cinema
Conventions of the Blockbuster task: watch several trailers; students to identify and discuss conventions of the BLOCKBUSTER
[detailed noted provided]
HIGH CONCEPT cinema
Alien: A film between production modes:
Assessment: detailed essay planning activity
Assessment: Question and essay plan provided
This pack contains ONE PowerPoint presentation and one student booklet
This session is largely students led, hence the price
The PowerPoint covers:
Starter: students discuss their thoughts on the soundtrack/use of sound in Alien [feedback and class discussion]
KEY TERMS: task/re-cap
Students to make list of ajdectives that describe the sound
Short reading activity: define the sound of alien as ‘dread’
Anlaysis scene 1 - The Nostromo {interoir and exterior]
screen extracts
student group anlaysis
class feedback and note taking
Anlaysis scene 2 - TheFace Hugger
screen extracts
student group anlaysis
class feedback and note taking
Anlaysis scene 3 - The Death of Brett
screen extracts
student group anlaysis
class feedback and note taking
Anlaysis scene 4 -Ripley vs. Alien (final escape/chaotic sound)
screen extracts
student group anlaysis
class feedback and note taking
Consolidation:
Reading (two detailed analyses for students to review/annotate)
Guided essay planning activity
Optional assessment included
This pack contains a detailed 37-page Power Point presentation, one student handout, one ‘answer booklet’ for mini assessments.
**This is a very detailed and focused session that will enable students to address both context, technical analysis and aesthetics of SkyFall **
The lesson covers:
Re-cap of exam, example questions discussed, special focus: Aesthetics introduction
**- Starter 1 **- Key terms task
Starter 2 - Questions about Bond/Skyfall - students encourage to draw out central themes that will later be linked to aesthetic choices
Feedback
Answering Questions 1 a, b,c,
- Scene analysis
- Student analysis activity
- detailed feedback slides
- sample paragraphs and review of sample
Question D - breakdown of question / key terms
Case study - discussion of Aesthetics using German Expressionism and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question C - use of colour juxtapositions and how colour is used to convey meaning i.e.
Use of framing to position Bond centrally - detailed scene analysis, clear links to meaning and context
Mirrors/Reflections/Doubles - detailed analysis of the use of Doubles/mirrors in the film - links to the film’s central themes discussed and reinforced.
Assessment:
Content from session is used to plan, write and review answers to the questions posed at the start of the session.
The lesson contains sample paragraphs and an essay plan
This pack contains a 32-slide PowerPoint presentation that covers Quentin Tarantino’s experimental Auteur status [using Pulp Fiction as primary text]
The lesson covers:
Hyper-Real nature of QT’s work
Starter Task: revisit Auteur theory
Discuss exam questions - then introduce exam question this PowerPoint will answer
Group task - mind-map everything you know about QT and his signature style
Feedback - mind-map included within the PowerPoint - run through this with students after their task
optional research task
How to write an introduction to this question
The following signature features of QT’s ouevre are covered:
Subversion of genre / influences
Post Modern approach / narrative
French New Wave - influences (with scene analysis/comparison task)
‘Subversion of realities of social structures’ aka QT’s approach to representation (essay to be read by students then discussed)
More technical features and interior meaning - foot fetishism and representation of women in his films
mise-en-scene
Music
Essay planning acticity
Pack also includes:
Essay discussing QT’s approach to representation
sample essay
This pack contains:
49 slide PowerPoint
2 part student booklet
Essay planning booklet / assessment materials
The PowerPoint has been designed to answer the question: “How far does your chosen films reflect its production context?
[20/40]”
The PP covers:
Explanation of ‘Production context’
Starter: students reflect on ‘classica era’ films they have seen
Introduce exam / essay question for this module
Introductions
Case study: The Classical Era
Studio system / The Big Five & Little Three
Vertical Integration / Studio heads control everything!
Scorsese explains the Studio approach (video and task)
The Key signifers of the classical approach: macro and micro elements
Narrative in the Classical era
Protagonists of the CLassical Era
The Hays Code
Analysis task: Angels with Dirty Faces
Analysis of Vertigo: How does it reflect the production context?
Analysis of Ernie’s:
Narrative
Contunity editing
Star System
Orchestral Score
Shooting on a sound stage
Hays Code & Veritgo
The Studio’s attempt to enforce an alternative ending
Hitchcock’s refusal to attach the ending
Decline of the studios / rise of the auteur director as signified by the ending of Vertigo
PLenary:
Detailed essay planning activities
Assessment: students to write a 20-mark response using their plans.
This pack contains TWO lessons.
Lesson 1 - Social Context:
Intro to film and module
Review of past paper questions - these are used to structure the entire session and all students will be able to answer the questions by the end of the session
Film’s genre and director/stars
Social Context - post war USA
Boomer generation and conflict with teens/youth
Rebellion in the 1950s
Series of key scene analysis tasks covering: social context, mise-en-scene
Lesson 2 - Production Context
What is ‘Production Context’
Review of past paper questions - these are used to structure the entire session and all students will be able to answer the questions by the end of the session
Classic era Studio system/factory filmmaking
Sound in cinema - analysis and history
Stars
Studio model
Patriarchal nature of the classic era
Male Gaze
Genre
In-depth analysis of Cinematography - 10 mark past paper question - analysis tasks and in-class assessment for this question
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 can be used to introduce any DOCUMENATRY module for both Film and Media studies A Level courses.
This pack contains a 40-slide PowerPoint AND an accompanying YouTube video that covers the following topics/content
PART I -
What is a documentary - Student starter task: define ‘documentary’
Discussion of how uses of key elements may differ from narrative film
Student experiences with documentary
Types of Documenaty (task)
Technical conventions of Documentary (task)
True/false / discussion task
Introduction to Bill Nichols and ‘Documentary Modes’
Short research task - students given one ‘mode’ each and then asked to research for 10 mins - feedback to the class
Discussion for each of Nichols’ Modes
Polemic
Expository
Observational
Participatory
Reflexive
Performative
PART II -
John Grieson on what a documentary is
‘Edge of Reality’ - dealing with actuality; the real
Task - comparing the represenation of WWI in narrative film (Paths of Glory) with documentary film (They Shall Never Grow Old)
Slides are included that go through each clip and consolidate the key points
Fictional Actors / Social Actors
PLenary: this is to be added but suggest task is:
Research the documentary that you and your students will be studying for your course - note down:
Documentary mode
Conventions used etc
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 SEVEN lessons that cover DISTRICT 9.
All lessons have been planned using exam board past papers, guidance and additional materials. Each lesson focuses on a specific element of the course and builds towards an assessment based upon previous exam papers/questions.
The lessons included all come with accompanying handouts and additional resources:
Lesson 1 -Intro to Science Fiction Genre and Screening tasks
Lesson 2 - Character Types - The Hero’s Journey applied to Wikus
Lesson 3 - Cinematography of District 9
Lesson 4 - Representation & Context: Apartheid
Lesson 5 - Mise-en-scene of District 9
Lesson 6- Narrative of District 9
Lesson 7 - Sound of mise-en-scene
This pack contains one 43-slide PowerPoint lesson and a 24 page student booklet.
The lesson covers:
What is ‘digital technology’ starter?
Review of former exam questions
Celluloid vs. digital
Tasks: how has digital technology impact the viewing, exhibition and distribution of film? (student research task)
Discussion in class: How has digital tech changed/impacted the students’ own use of digital media?
Article / reading task: Jenkins and ‘Transmedia’; unbundling, convergence, etc.
How is this all relevant to documentary?
Exploration of documentary in the digital world.
Photo-journalistic approach in documentaries
Cannon Mark II digital camera
Editing - digital non-linear editing and ‘avid’
Analysis of Amy:
Scene 1 - Amy is introduced to Heroin by Blake / attempted rehab - detailed notes for students/teacher included in PowerPoint and booklet
Assessment included - sample response also included (original response)
This PowerPoint addresses representation of ethnicity and race in Blade Runner (Scott, 1982).
The lesson covers:
Whiteness in Blade Runner
Techno-fascism
Replicants - ubermensch, and analogue for US slave trade
Asian culture and characters - Use of Asian cultural symbols in the city
othernesses
Other as exotic
Representation of Latino/hispanic characters
Essay structure/note taking handout
**This pack is designed for the Eduqas Film A Level, but it suitable for any one teaching/studying Non-Linear narratives/Pulp Fiction and narrative.
The pack contains a 26-slide PowerPoint presentation that covers:
Pulp Fiction: Experimental Narrativ**e [Specialist Study Area]
starter - recap key narrative terms
intro discussion: how does Pulp Fiction subvert traditional approaches to narrative?
Section 1 - Goal Orientated Narratives - study of how PF’s approach to goal orientation is experimental
Section 2 - Narrative resolutions - study of how PF’s approach to narrative resolution is experimental
Section 3 - Binary Oppositions - study of how PF’s approach to binary oppostions is experimental
Dialogue - how dialgue is used in place of cause and effect
Themes - how themes drive the narrative and give coherence
Final scene - analysis
Plenary activities
Assessement activities - essay planning and writing
Additional resources:
11-page gapped handout for students to complete in the lesson
A3 sized print out of film’s non-linear structure
Breakdown of the three chapters and how themes are used
This pack contains a 59-slide PowerPoitnt presentation and accompanying student booklet
This PowerPoint will take approx 3 lessons / hours and ends with an in class, timed assessment activity
The lessons covers:
Starter - How do students interpret the term ‘experimental’ cinema? - discussion and feedback
Introduce Pulp Fiction as our focus text, reinforce student areas, etc
Show past paper questions - student read questions - Q&A session to address student’s initial concerns
Read and evaluate the ‘Indicative Content’ provided by EDUQAS
Define: Mainstream cinema
Task - students to outline conventions of ‘mainstream’ cinema
Define: Experimental Cinema
Discussion task after definition provided
Students discuss the ways a filmmaker can experiment with film form, approach to ideology and representation
Conventions of Experimental / Post-modern cinema
Intertextuality
Self-referential
Fragmentation of Time and Space
Homage
Pastiche
Parody
Hyper-reality
Non-sequitors
Consoidation task - screen fist 5 minutes from Une Chien Andalou (this can obviously be swapped out for your own examples/texts)
Part II - Starter - re-cap conventions of EXP cinema
Students to work in pairs/groups to find their own examples of the Experimental conventions used in Pulp Fiction (could be set as a homework task)
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Analysis of Pulp Fiction**
Part 1 - introductions - students are provided with a question ‘In What Ways Can Your Chosen Film be Considered Experimental’?
Key points to include in the introduction to the answer are provided to students/
Explain HIGH ART vs/ LOW ART as a convention of Post modern cinema
Compare a scene from The Wire with a scene from Superfly* - analysis task and feedback ***
This point links to the title card used to open the film
Discussion of ‘Pulp Fiction novels’ and how *Pulp Fiction the film reflects the post-modern approach
Part II - Experimental Techniques
Comparison between ‘Road Wars’ scene from Fast and Furious 7, and the ‘Royale With Cheese’ sequence from PF
Student’s analyse in groups then feedback
Analysis of Butch and Marcellus’ first meeting - task: analysis and feedback - breakdown of all experimental approaches used the in the scene
Part III - Representation
Students asks to discuss their views on representation of race and gender in PF
feedback
Introduce the view that Tarantino’s films subvert industry standard approaches to gender and racial representation
Reading task - read section from book to refinforce and develop this argument
students are encouraged to respond to this view and share their own thoughts on Tarantino’s approach
Examples from PF provided to support student understanding
Assessment - timed assessment. Mark scheme included.