The mark schemes provided by the board are great, but they tend to be very specific to the questions in the SAMs and past papers. So I could issue a highlighted mark scheme to all my stdents, whatever the title I set, I pared the Eduqas schemes down to the bare bones. In other words, where an Eduqas Global Film scheme will mention the specific elements of film idenitified in the question, mine does not. I find that using these schemes makes the students very familiar with the recurring key words and phrases, and helps them target their responses more relevantly. I have also included a box at the bottom for you two write comments and targets, as well as the mark.

This sheet is for use with Eduqas A Level Film students who have chosen to make a short film for their coursework. Once they have made an early rough-cut, you can use this sheet to give them some guidnace on where their work sits so far, and how they could improve it. I have boiled down the mark scheme to the key descriptors, and used the Excellent/Good/Satisfactory etc language from the Bands.

A worksheet containing three activites: writing interesting sentences , each beginning with one of ten given adverbs; using ambitious vocabulary in sentences; finishing sentences which contain semi-colons I devised it as a revision exercise for my Year 8, but it might work with older kids, too, if they are shaky on sentence structure and vocab.

This is for students who know the whole film well, but who need to carefully prepare a few key scenes for the exam. This resource focuses on the Specialist Study Area of Narrative, and takes students through the structure of the sequence and the 5 elements of film. There is an essay title at the end, and some prompts to help them tackle it. There is nothing on Ideology in this resource as I tend to teach that separately. It’s an electronic resource with boxes that expand as students type in them, but you could easily enlarge the boxes yourself, print it off and get them to write in it by hand.

This is for students who know the whole film well, but who need to carefully prepare a few key scenes for the exam. This resource focuses on the Specialist Study Area of Narrative, and takes students through the structure of the sequence and the 5 elements of film. There is an essay title at the end, and a couple of sample paragraphs to show how they might tackle it. There is nothing on Ideology in this resource as I tend to teach that separately. It’s an electronic resource with boxes that expand as students type in them, but you could easily enlarge the boxes yourself, print it off and get them to write in it by hand.

I made this for use with middle and lower ability Year 9s. It is the complete story, but now and then are boxes with questions in about the text and room to write notes. It also contains a writing task which focuses on the use of direct speech.

In my school, lower ability students only do Language at GCSE which leaves a little free time which we are starting to use to increase their media literacy, with the aim of increasing numbers for A Level Film Studies. This brief unit (which should only take a couple of weeks) builds on their existing knowledg of literary techniques, and uses extracts from ‘Kes’ to improve both their understanding of film and their creative writing. It involves: revising and using common literary devices; exploring the 5 elements of film form (as contained in the Eduqas spec); an analysis of how character and setting are established in the opening scene; narrative writing based on the scenes where Billy trains Kes; descriptive writing about an animal of their choice. It is written with Edexcel IGCSE Language students in mind, and is a great lead-in to the H is for Hawk Anthology extract. However, it could easily be adapted to suit any spec. It would also work well with bright Year 9s.

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.

The sheet explains how syndetic lists differ from lists using commas. It then requires the students to write their own syndetic lists using common nouns and proper nouns and abstract nouns and verbs and adjectives and adverbs. (See what I did there?)

Firstly, this sheet quickly explains what fronted adverbials are and why they are useful. Subsequently, the students write sentences beginning with adverbs I have chosen. Finally, they write sentences beginning with adverbs they chose themselves. (See what I did there?)

I find that studying a film full of political ideas and views is easier if the students have grappled with these ideas first a bit themselves. This resource contains many statements about a wide range of political views expressed or shown in the film. I print it onto card, cut them up and then get the students to sort the cards into three piles: statments they agree with; staments they disagree with; and ones they are undecided about. The cards can then be used to provoke discussion and debate.

The scene where Combo bursts in to Gadget’s house with Banjo is a really pivotal one. This resource breaks it down into small chunks and asks the students to consider how Meadows uses the elements of film in each chunk. There are some refelctive, longer-answer questions at the end about the scene as a whole. It’s best given electronically so the boxes can expand to accommodate lengthy answers.

This resource is best used electronically so the students can type lengthy answers in the boxes provided. It asks them to think about several often contardictory ideas about how the film has been structured and then use evidence from the film to support each one. It is a really useful revision resource.

This is a great way for A Level Film students to keep track of the structure of This is England. It’s a largely linear film, but it is divided in half when Combo draws a spit-line on the floor, dividing the skinheads. The first page has all the scenes in two columns, reflecting this split. Students should use coloured pens to colour scnes on each side of the divide which ‘mirror’ each other, such as the two montage scenes, or the scenes when Shaun’s image is transformed, first by Woody and Lol, and later by Combo. On the second sheet, they record in detail how these paired or mirrored scenes are similar and different.

This resource is intended for A Level Lit students, but could work with able GCSE students studying ‘Hamlet’. It works best if the pupils already know the whole plot (from, say, watching a production) and who are now embarking on the nitty-gritty of studying each scene. It is presented here as a Word document whose boxes expand as they are typed in. I find this helps the students’ revision because the questions are near the answers, and can easily be added to as their knowledge grows. I encourage the students to include as much quotation as they can and to do so in a different colour text, again to aid revision later.

This resource is intended for A Level Lit students, but could work with able GCSE students studying ‘Hamlet’. It works best if the pupils already know the whole plot (from, say, watching a production) and who are now embarking on the nitty-gritty of studying each scene. It is presented here as a Word document whose boxes expand as they are typed in. I find this helps the students’ revision because the questions are near the answers, and can easily be added to as their knowledge grows. I encourage the students to include as much quotation as they can and to do so in a different colour text, again to aid revision later.

This resource is intended for A Level Lit students, but could work with able GCSE students studying ‘Hamlet’. It works best if the pupils already know the whole plot (from, say, watching a production) and who are now embarking on the nitty-gritty of studying each scene. It is presented here as a Word document whose boxes expand as they are typed in. I find this helps the students’ revision because the questions are near the answers, and can easily be added to as their knowledge grows. I encourage the students to include as much quotation as they can and to do so in a different colour text, again to aid revision later.

There are two sheets here. One contains a passage which has been set out correctly, but all the punctuation is missing. The second is correctly punctuated, but the layout is wrong. Pupils rewrite the passages correctly.

Each of these is an A4 sheet covering one of the poems from the Lit exam. Included are: Blessing; Half Past Two; Hide and Seek; Poem at Thirty Nine; War Photographer. They are very useful for revision purposes. They can be enlarged and used as posters, too.

This 26 page booklet breaks the film down into all its scenes. Each page has boxs for notes on 4 elements of film (not sound), plus expressionistic and realistic aspects. This makes it perfect for preparing for the Silent Film questions in the exam.