This full colour poster outlines Czech-American film director Milos Forman’s key directorial attributes and achievements. Perfect for the Auteur study question on the Eduqas Film Studies A-Level curriculum.

For **FILM STUDIES A-LEVEL ** This class exercise allows students to consider class representations in the 2009 UK independent film Fish Tank. It will prompt discussion and allow students to think about how a variety of characters are represented. The objective is for students to fill in their worksheets independently or in pairs, and then for each individual or pair to feedback to the whole group. In this way, a wide range of answers and insights can be explored. The exercise could fill nearly an entire 1 hour lesson, depending upon the group size.

This is a 50 slide full colour PowerPoint Presentation on national identity versus British identity (as well as multicultural, globalized Britain) in the 1996 film Trainspotting (Danny Boyle). This is very useful for** EDUQAS A Level Film Studies** because of the focus on representations in the film, including how particular aspects of **mise-en-scene **link to identity, narrative themes and character. This presentation can be used to study the film’s binary oppositions and how Scotland and London come to represent different outlooks, rather than just different geographical locations.

This study of the 1996 film TRAINSPOTTING by Danny Boyle explores how Scottish identity and culture are represented in the film. This is a 46 Slide PowerPoint Presentation and it comprises sufficient material for a comprehensive lesson plan. This is useful for media studies, film studies and cultural studies. The resource explores how stereotypes, identity and representations are constructed in a media text.

This chart helps to understand how the narrative conflicts in Winter’s Bone are related to different ideological positions, with respect to values such as community versus individual rights, ‘omerta’ versus whistleblowing, and ‘honour’ versus responsibility/ humanity.

This Graphic provides an overview of the key ideological issues for the film Winter’s Bone. There are other possibilities for the A-Level Film Studies Exam (such as gender or class) but this graphic provides possibly the best understanding of the more subtle political ideologies within the narrative and their contexts than the more ‘identity’ based approach to ideology. This graphic places the film within its concurrent social and political contexts, and these bear upon how the film will be** ‘de-coded’** (vis. Stuart Hall’s theory) by viewers, depending upon the background knowledge they bring to their viewing experience. Therefore, this resource provides possibilities for** spectatorship issues** as well as ideology.

This 14 slide, fully-animated presentation involves key revision in preparation for Component 1, Section A: Hollywood 1930 – 1990 Comparative Study. Focus is on the auteur debate and industrial contexts, with other factors such as gender representation and genre also considered. The presentation involves interactive exercises and should fill one lesson.

This 23 full colour slide presentation offers A-Level Film Studies Students many interactive exercises that will help them to compare and contrast these two films from global cinema. Mustang (Erguven, 2015, Turkey/France) tells the story of five sisters living in rural Turkey, where village and local Islamic traditions are still strictly enforced. Timbuktu (Sissako, 2014, Mauritania/France) dramatises the occupation of Northern Mali by Jihadist Islamists in 2012, and revolves around the real life story of a couple who were stoned to death for having a child out of wedlock. The two films are studied as excellent examples of post-millennial global cinema and offer many points of comparison. Both films offer means of studying religious debates, culture and global politics. This presentation should fill an entire one hour lesson and may be extended into longer or more developed exercises.

This 69 slide full-colour interactive PowerPoint Presentation covers very targeted learing objectives for the EDUQAS A Level Film Studies Specification on Global CInema. Objectives include: Core Study Areas (Mise-en-scene, Social and Political Contexts, Reception, Exam Questions and Mark Schemes, and Production notes. This resource will be used in a two-hour lesson and promotes discussion of key symbols and themes, as well as allowing for close analysis of mise-en-scene.

This is a 63 slide full-colour interactive PowerPoint Presentation. It provides a two hour lesson plan covering the production context, social & political contexts, reception,** spectatorship ** (including past exam questions, Hall’s reception theory and how to apply it to CAROL, viewer positioning, binaries in the narrative, and symbolism in the mise-en-scene. This is useful to EDUQAS A Level Film Studies Tutors but also to MEDIA studies teachers. ***Also useful for LGBTQ+ History Month **

This GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST film from the late silent period showcases many features of German Expessionist cinema, as well as being a key example of a film made in Hollywood for an American audience. Made in 1927 by Fox Studio, this film forms the basis of a lesson around German Expressionist cinema and its visual techniques. This 32-Slide presentation provides lots of detail as well as explanation about how certain visual effects were achieved. Ideal for teachers fdollowing the EDUQAS Film Studies A-Level, Component 2.

This 37 full colour slide show (PowerPoint Presentation) provides an overview of the Component 2 - Global Cinema exam. It offers many detailed tips for candidates, and supports their work on the following films: Mustang (Erguven), Timbuktu (Sissako), Sisters in Law (Longinotto), Sunrise (Murnau) and Fallen Angels (Wong). There are interactive questions allowing for students to get involved and to be fully engaged for an entire two hour lesson.

This is a fully animated, full colour interactive 32 slide Power Point Presentation. It provides an excellent lesson plan for a two hour lession, and includes four practice questions from past papers, with lots of suggestions on how to tackle 'ideologies’ questions. It suggests some binary analyses of the films Trainspotting and Fish Tank and provides some indicative content tips from the exam boards. Much of the content is based on advice from EDUQAS Film Studies examiners.

This 25 Slide PowerPoint Presentation can be used for an hour long lesson on gender representations in Billy Wilder’s 1959 film ‘Some Like It Hot’. This can be used for the Component 1A. American Film Exam preparation in Film Studies, or it could be useful in AS Film Studies or Media Studies to discuss gender transgression, homoerotic subtext and feminist themes or messages in the film. The film challenges gender binaries and stereotypes and cleverly uses subtext and indirect or double meanings to get across its progressive messages in subtle ways that would not have alienated 1950’s American audiences. This is an interactive presentation that ends with a 15 minute exercise.

For the** EDUQAS Film Studies A Level** Component 1C. British Films, this resource provides a great exam revision preparation lesson. This is a 24 slide PowerPoint including interactive activities that allow students to reflect on ideological meanings and to share their ideas. The resource is focused on the EDUQAS A Level examination, and includes past questions to guide pupils in how to craft good answers targeted on ideological analysis. Includes key prompts and talking points for ideology and a sample binary analysis.

This Resource is a 44 Slide interactive PowerPoint Presentation offering students a lot of room for discussion and debate around the identity politics within the film, as well a the contextual issues that would have influenced the narrative and the filmmakers (as well as the novelist). Students are encouraged to reflect and to discuss, activities get them involved in dissecting the film’s meanings - both literal and subtextual. Perfect revision for the Eduqas A-Level Film Studies Component 1A. Paper. https://resource.download.wjec.co.uk/vtc/2017-18/17-18_3-7/eng/sam2-component-1.pdf

This 35-slide PowerPoint Presentation can be used for the ‘ideologies’ study of Trainspotting for the Eduqas A Level Film Studies Component 1C. (British Films). It provides a full interactive 2 hour lesson plan with focus on exams. Marxist ideology is introduced gently with a few key concepts including: class struggle, alienation, exploitation, consumerism, commodity fetishisaton and false consciousness. Marxist concepts are applied to particular aspects of the film’s mise-en-scene and to particular sequences. Issues are explored through discussion with lots of question prompts to allow discussion and debate.

This fully animated, interactive presentation is comprised of 43 full colour slides. The analysis of narrative, formal elements and spectatorship aims at preparing film studies students for the A-Level Exam, (EDUQAS FIlm Studies, Component 1B - American Cinema). It is equally useful for any film or media course. Elements of narrative, as well as camera, sound design, mise-en-scene and lighting are all analysed in this comprehensive study of this modern Western gothic film. This presentation is designed to form the basis for a full one hour lesson, and could be extended to further sessions.

This is a great revision exercise for the EDUQAS Film Studies A-Level, Component 2, Global Filmmaking Perspectives: Silent Cinema. This is a 20 slide Quiz presented in PowerPoint. It works well for team or small group competitions.

This fully animated, interactive 20 Slide illustrated Power-Point presentation forms the basis of a lesson, ideal for a post-screening discussion of narrative in Wong Kar-Wei’s 1995 Hong Kong New Wave film FALLEN ANGELS. The presentation provides several opportunities to pause and discuss aspects of narrative in the film and encourages students to think about the ways in which Wong’s cinema breaks away from conventional genre storytelling methods. The presentation is ideal for the Global CInema / Experimental Cinema component of EDUQAS Film Studies A-Level or for any film studies course interested in Hong Kong New Wave, Auteur studies, or Global Cinema.