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Course Overview EDUQAS GCSE FILM STUDIES

Please note: Specifications changed in Sept 2017. To read, please click here

For example exam papers click here.

What about

A Level

Film?

Those who choose to study this course bring with them a huge enthusiasm and excitement for film which constantly motivates them. You will experience a powerful medium which inspires a range of responses from the emotional to the reflective as you are drawn into characters, their narratives and the issues films raise. It is not surprising that many consider film to be the major art form of the last hundred years and that many feel it important to study a medium which has such a significant influence on the way people think and feel.

 

 

COURSEWORK

30% of the GCSE

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This component assesses your ability to apply knowledge and understanding of film to a production and its accompanying evaluative analysis. You will produce:

 

• one genre-based film extract (either from a film or from a screenplay)

 

• one evaluative analysis of the production, where you will analyse and evaluate your production in relation to comparable, professionally-produced films or screenplays.

 

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THE EXAM

70% of the GCSE

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Component 1: Key Developments in US Film

 

Written examination: 1 hour 30 minutes

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35% of qualification

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This component assesses knowledge and understanding of three US films chosen from a range of options.

 

Assessment consists of four questions on one pair of US mainstream films and one US independent film:

 

Section A: US film comparative study

 

• one stepped question on the first of the chosen pair of films (produced between 1930 and 1960)

 

• one stepped question on the second of the chosen pair of films (produced between 1961 and 1990)

 

• one question requiring a comparison of the chosen pair of films

 

Section B: Key developments in film and film technology

 

• one multi-part question on developments in film and film technology

 

Section C: US independent film

 

• one question on one US independent film.

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Component 2: Global Film: Narrative, Representation and Film Style

 

Written examination: 1 hour 30 minutes

 

35% of qualification

 

This component assesses knowledge and understanding of three global films produced outside the US chosen from a range of options.

 

Assessment consists of three questions in three sections: •

 

Section A:

 

  • one stepped question on one global English language film 

 

Section B:

 

  • one stepped question on one global non-English language film

 

Section C:

 

  • one stepped question on one contemporary UK film.

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