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EDUQAS A-Level Film Studies - introduction to SPECTATORSHIP Issues
This resource closely follows the EDUQAS A-Level specification and the Lisa Wardle textbook to offer teachers a comprehensive introduction to the main issues around spectatorship. This is especially useful in teaching Component 1, Section B, American Film Since 2005.
Topics covered include active versus passive spectatorship, viewer positioning, analysis of how film form and narrative shape spectator response, viewing contexts, demographic factors, intertextuality, preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings ( Stuart Hall’s theory) with a few case study application suggestions (CAROL, Haynes, 2015).
The resource includes interactive exercises and is presented with nice visuals and text/picture animations.
Approx length of time - 1 entire lesson (1 hour).
Number of slides: 38.
A-Level Film Studies: Sunrise (Murnau, 1927) Close Study
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.
EDUQAS Component 2.Global Filmmaking Perspectives, Section B. Documentary Film
This presentation is based on insights from Patricia White’s article ‘Cinema Solidarity: The Documentary Practice of Kim Longinotto’ from Cinema Journal 46, No. 1, Fall 2006.
Using Sisters in Law (Ayisi and Longinotto) as the central case study, this 30-slide presentation forms the basis of an hour-long lesson and concludes with a past exam question.
Ideal for teaching EDUQAS A-LEVEL** FILM STUDIES**, this resource focuses on Kim Longinotto’s documentary practice and ‘theory’, allowing students to contextualise her approach in terms of wider feminist debates around the position and role of Western feminists vis-a-vis feminists from other cultures and national contexts.
Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wei) - a narrative study
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.
British Film Since 1995 (Eduqas A Level Film Studies Revision)
This 30 full colour , interactive PowerPoint Presentation is the ideal revision tool to prepare students for the A-Level Film Studies exam paper (Component 1C.).
THe two films refrenced are Trarispotting (Boyle, 1996) and Fish Tank (Arnold, 2009).
The resource closely follows the Eduqas Examination Board’s advice and guidance on how to approach ideologies. There are example questions from past papers, discussion prompts and class exercises as well as an essay structure scaffold.
This could be used on conjunction with the two films to teach ideologies and narrative, and provides example binary analyses - a tool for ideological analysis that is transferable to any narrative.
Moonlight - A Level Film Studies EXAM FOCUS
This 25 slide full colour PowerPoint Presentation provides helpful exam preparation for ideology and spectatorship (Eduqas Film Studies Component 1B.). The resource is closely focused on what examiners will expect, and offers talking points, discussion questions, and commentary on core study areas and representation.
Captain Fantastic: Ideology & Spectatorship
This is a 27 slide interactive PowerPoint to prepare pupils for the Eduqas A Level Film Studies, Component 1B. exam.
Ideology and Spectatorship are explored and applied to the film Captain Fantastic (Ross, 2016) with lots of questions for pupils to ponder and discuss throughout.
Helpful ‘talking points’ about how to interpret the ideological positioning of the Cash family.
Theory: Laura Mulvey’s ‘male gaze’ is touched on as is Stuart Hall’s reception theory. The presentation is designed to provide two-hour lesson plan.
A Marxist Analysis of TRAINSPOTTING
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.
Identity in Trainspotting
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.
EDUQAS FILM STUDIES A-Level - Silent Cinema Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
This 39-slide fully interactive presentation ends with exam questions and guidance from the EDUQAS boards, as well as offering historical context and aesthetic characteristics of German Expressionist cinema, with special focus on SUNRISE (FW Murnau).
This presentation is excellent for exam revision and conveys the key talking points for this section of the **Film Studies **Component 2 paper.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Close 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
EDUQAS FILM STUDIES A LEVEL REVISION, Component 1C. British Films
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.
No Country For Old Men Analysis (A-Level Film & Media Studies)
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.
FILM STUDIES. Component 2B: Documentary: the significance of DIGITAL TECH
This fully interactive, colour slide presentation comprises 25 slides which include links to relevant YouTube videos, classroom exercises and exam questions.
The case study used for this particular slide presentation is ‘Sisters in Law’ but any of the films on the specification could be substituted.
This is a valuable teachring resource for the EDUQAS FILM STUDIES A-LEVEL.
EDUQAS A Level FILM STUDIES: Component 2 Revision
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.
Cinema Vérité: a Revolution in Documentary Style
This is a** fully animated** and illustrated (with helpful links integrated) overview of the Cinéma Vérité film movement, comprising 44 slides. Useful for teaching the EDUQAS A-LEVEL in FILM STUDIES (Documentary Component) as well as the IB in Film or Media Studies. The content covers how Cinema Verite ** evolved in the United States, UK, Canada and France. *A- Level FIlm Studies Tutors can use this for two entire lessons.
The PowerPoint presentation is to be used over a two-hour lesson and includes breaks for discussion and feedback, as well as the option to use the built-in links to video clips / examples. The presentation includes pictures, text, exercises and video links.
It is useful for teaching at A-Level, the International Baccalaureate, or as an introductory lesson at University Level.
CAROL (2015, Todd Haynes) A Level Film Studies Resource
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 **
MUSTANG (Erguven, 2015) A Level Film Studies Revision PowerPoint
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.
Eduqas A-Level Film: Taxi Tehran (Contextual Study)
This full color, animated, interactive PowerPoint Presentation includes 49 slides with detailed discussion of context for the 2015 film. The context closely follows the Lisa Wardle Textbook to prepare A Level film studies students for the Component 2A. examination question. There are practice questions, exercises, and discussion prompts to get students involved in an interactive lesson. The resource should cover a full two hour lesson.
In addition this resource can be used for a contemporary cultural study of life in Iran. Panahi is an internationally celebrated director whose work (including Taxi Tehran) has won critical acclaim and major awards. This film offers a “way in” to Iran including its theocratic regime, its history and its artistic culture.
Themes explored: Women in Iran, Ethnicity, Representations of generational differences, history, crime & punishment, political dissent and its consequences and the nature of filmmaking itself.
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EDUQAS FILM Spectatorship Bundle
This collection of resources provides a range of
classroom ready resrouces to tackle the FIlm Studies A Level Component 1B. - Spectatorship Topic.
The Films referenced and used as examples include No Country for Old Men, Carol and Winter’s Bone. There is also an introductory PowerPoint with an overview of what examiners mean by ‘Spectatorship’ and clear guidance on how to apply it to specific films.
There is a Test included as well.