Analyse key scenes and sequences to uncover embedded ideologies and understand how diverse contexts shape film production and interpretation. Films are deliberately crafted to evoke specific responses, spanning genres like Old Hollywood, European Cinema, and Experimental Film.
Delve into film aesthetics and emotional manipulation, employing theoretical and critical methods to decode underlying messages. Learn how to question directors’ intentions while considering contextual influences, honing communication, debate, and essay writing skills.
Film Studies has a 30% production element where you will put into practice all you have learnt to create your own short film. Evidence your creativity, demonstrating your understanding of the technical features of filmmaking and of the all-important relationship between the film and the audience.
Five GCSEs at grade 9-4, including GCSE English and GCSE Maths.
This course allows many students to study film at university level. It also equips students with transferable skills such as critical thinking and sophistication of thought - making it helpful for a wide range of creative and academic courses including journalism, history, English literature, American studies, and PR and marketing.
The oldest surviving movie was filmed in Leeds. Roundhay Garden Scene is a short silent motion picture filmed by French inventor Louis Le Prince at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, on 14 October 1888.