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A Level Film Studies – Twilight

  • September 2020

  • Year 12 sessions: Tuesday and Thursday 4 pm – 6 pm

  • Year 13 sessions: Monday and Wednesday 4 pm – 6 pm

  • Bridgend College, Cowbridge Road Campus

Entry requirements

5 GCSEs, grades A* – C

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Course overview

Film is one of the main cultural innovations of the 20th century and a major art form of the last hundred years. Those who study it characteristically bring with them a high degree of enthusiasm and excitement for what is a powerful and culturally significant medium, inspiring a range of responses from the emotional to the reflective. Film Studies offers the opportunity to investigate how film works both as a medium of representation and as an aesthetic medium.

What you will study

This course offers opportunities to study mainstream American films from the past and the present as well as a range of recent and contemporary British films, American independent films and global films, both non-English language and English language.

The historical range of film represented in those films is extended by the study of silent film and significant film movements so that you can gain a sense of the development of film from its early years to its still emerging digital future. Studies in documentary, experimental and short films add to the breadth of the learning experience.

At the root of all film studies is a recognition that films are made: they are constructed using a range of elements – cinematography, mise-en-scène, sound, editing and performance (the key elements of film form). These are then organised structurally in terms of narrative and often genre (the structural elements of film form).

How filmmakers use these elements, frequently in complex and highly artistic ways, is a large part of what constitutes the formal study of film. Equally important is how spectators respond to the work filmmakers create and how you interpret the films with reference to spectator response, relevant contexts, critical approaches and debates. In turn, these formal studies have a direct impact on your own work as a filmmaker and screenwriter.

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