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 a one off lesson - about 60 to 90 minutes - and has links for students to do further reading which is why it could take 90 minutes.
It has some excerpts from the controversial Ed West article in the Telegraph from 2011 which no longer seems to be online
Primarily this is guided lesson, wherein the student task is to summarised what they have learned and do some independant learning
Either class room or online
There once was a teachit resource for the two newsaper articles [ back in 2017] but you would need to source that yourself!
This contains two PPTS revised as at February 2023 - one is a general revision to compare and contrast the set texts from Mars and Beyonce and the second PPT is a an in depth refresher on Mars uptown funk
Neither need teacher support - but if teacher led would take 2-3 lessons to work through
There are some exam style questions - with guidance on ’ get to the point’ style answers, stongly focussed on there are no points in waffle!
There are slides with core vocab refreshers.
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.
UPDATED 20 AUGUST 2020
This is work book intended for A Level students ( film study) using the current curriculum for Eduqas (WJEC) board with the first exams 2019.
( I think it is impossible to teach spectatorship witihout acknowledging casting choices in light of#blacklives matter and the wake of #metoo)
Update includes an extra page towards the end on more sound information
The resource focuses on Spectatorship, but assumes that some spectatorship has already been taught. As this film has attaracted over 50!! PHD thesis - I have got this down to what I think is a manageable 25 pages ( just under 6,500 words) with some student interaction, but all the interaction comes back to what will be the key question focus for the 2019 - 2021 exams with this film - spectatorship.
The key scenes I have targeted are the coin toss, and the motel scene post Moss death, with sections on camera, lighting, costumes, and of course the Coen’s and Deakin.
There are many themes one could chose - I have included Nihilism, religion , ageing, law and order, as they seem the most obvious and will I hope write up well in the exams. I have not done much focus on the acting because I have assumed that any teacher would easily identify that its realism, and method with the main three!
I have left this as a word document - so you can alter adapt and personalise as you wish - or not if you choose - but I do ask that you do not distrubute this online.
This is for students studying THE BIG ISSUE [TBI]
It includes references to the Sgt Pepper cover used in the 2021 November exam series.
PPTs cover TBI going digital and the impact of covid
Issue practise with Marcus Rushford
Digital impact and key word practise: bricolage homage
Theorist used Clay Shirkey