Year 9 Film Studies Unit based on scenes from Jaws and 28 Days Later

We don’t offer Film at GCSE at my school, but we do at A Level, so we have decided to include some short units in English in Years 9-11 to familiarise the pupils with the subject.

Here is what we will be doing with Year 9 for the last couple of weeks of the summer term.

The unit starts with the students researching the 5 elements of film which the Eduqas A Level covers: cinematography, mise-en-scene, sound, editing and performance.

They then explore a (totally non-violent) scene from early in 28 Days Later, using these new terms. This will take a couple of lessons.

There is then a longer section where the pupils explore the beach scene in Jaws in several different ways. This culminates in a task which could be a written piece, a group presentation or a podcast. It’s up to you.

The final section contains two silent clips from live action and animated movies. The students then create their own Foley sound for one of those clips.

All the clips the links needed are embedded into the ppt.

The PowerPoint SoW is accompanied by a 12 side pupil booklet they can use for making notes and writing their responses.