Film Studies
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“Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.” Steven Bochco
Department Aim
● The Film Studies Curriculum at Laurel Park School aims to develop our young people’s confidence in critically engaging with film texts of all styles and types.
● Across the course of study, students will develop an understanding of an analytical approach to films across time and regions.
Department Purpose
● The GCSE Film Studies is designed to draw on students' enthusiasm for film and introduce them to a wide variety of cinematic experiences through films which have been important in the development of film and film technology.
● To impart the importance of being socially aware of the world around us and how this world, through the study of a range of films across the world, from the US to Australia.
● To allow young people to understand the impact and influence that film studies have on them.
● To embed young people with the skills and knowledge necessary to identify and critique the different elements of the film in which we are all immersed in.
● To develop critical thinkers and young people who consider and question the world in which they live, and more specifically:
● the ways in which meanings and responses are generated through film
● a contrasting, culturally diverse range of films from different national contexts
● film as an aesthetic medium
● how films reflect the social, cultural and political contexts in which they are made
● the relationship between film and film technology over time.
● In addition, the specification aims to enable learners to apply their knowledge and understanding of film to filmmaking or screenwriting.
Our facilities
● Media suite with 30 computers all with Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Video Editing
● 60 Chromebooks for use across the department
● Green screen
Curriculum
The Film Studies curriculum booklets can be downloaded here: