A Level Film Studies Coursework / Component 3 EDUQAS FIVE lesson pack

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.