Film Studies
Welcome to A-Level Film Studies
Here are a number of tasks that you should complete to feel well-prepared for September 2025 when you join the A-Level Film Studies class. It’s your enthusiasm that will make all the difference to our classes, so complete the tasks and bring them to your first lesson.
We follow the WJEC specification.
https://www.wjec.co.uk/qualifications/film-studies-as-a-level/#tab_keydocuments
Mrs B Seed
https://resources.wjec.co.uk/Pages/ResourceByArgs.aspx?subId=50&lvlId=1
Empire Film Magazine
Sight and Sound Film Magazine
The Film Review with Mark Kermode airs on BBC News Channel 6.45pm on Friday nights.
Front Row airs on Radio 4 every weekday at 7.15pm.
Mark Kermode’s The Secret of Cinema iplayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJR1Ncq4Qvs
- Read 01. Year 11 to A-Level Film Studies and find out what films we will be studying. Make sure you have watched at least two of these films. Throughout the course, you will need to be able to watch these films at home, so find out a way of accessing them all. Setting up an amazon account is usually the best way.
- Open 02. Year 11 to A-Level Film Studies NEA and watch all of the short films. Choose your favourite and one particular scene that you think is powerful. In the film glossary attachment, you will find a list of film-making techniques, covering each of the five aspects - cinematography, editing, music and sound, performance and mise-en-scene. Write an essay, with a paragraph on each technique, identifying examples of methods from the scene chosen and the meanings created. Please be aware that Curfew contains suicide ideation and indirect depictions of suicide. You do not have to watch this film, if you do not want to. This work is for Mrs Seed.
- Complete the film poster task, as described in the word document for Mrs Wildman.