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Film Studies Intensive A Level Scheme of Work 2003 – 2004

 

Evening Class 

Week Begin

No.

*Hand-in

Notes   -   Films & activities

08/09/03

01

Intros

The Film Review.  Auteur Study.

Genre 1: Noir - Criss Cross

15/09/03

02

 

Background – German Expr

The Underneath

22/09/03

03

* FS4 Review

Storyboard synopsis + Film form

Close analysis – Macro reading

29/09/03

04

 

Macro Title? Marketing & Dist.

Gangs of New York

06/10/03

05

* FS1 Synopsis

Selling Films

City of God (if available)

13/10/03

06

 

Narrative & Genre Theory

 

20/10/03

07

* FS1 Macro

Intro post-war British film

Passport to Pimlico

27/10/03

 

HALF TERM

Homework:  Case Study

 

03/11/03

08

* 1st Catalogue

FS2 Topic Area: British Comedy

Lock, Stock ….

10/11/03

09

 

Representation & ‘Britishness’

 

17/11/03

10

* FS1 Ideas

World vs Domestic Markets?

Lady Killers (Focus Film)

24/11/03

11

 

FS2 Topic Area & Focus Film

 

01/12/02

12

* FS1 Sequence

Exhibition/ ways of seeing (film)

Chicken Run (Close Study)

08/12/03

13

 

Interpreting cine-business info

Close Study Discussion

15/12/03

14

* DEADLINE

FS1: Storyboard. Macro Reading

FS4 - Journalism 1: Film Review

22/12/03

 

Christmas

 Homework: Revise FS2

Cinema Industry/ social practice

29/12/03

 

Break

of film consumption

05/01/04

15

AS Exams

FS6 Fandom & Spectatorship

Sunset Boulevard

12/01/04

16

AS Exams

Auteur presentation

Close Analysis - Micro Reading

19/01/04

17

 

Auteur presentation. Micro title?

Lost Highway/Mulholland Dr.

26/01/04

18

* Presentation

FS 6 The Avant Garde

Maya Deren/ Stan Brakhage

02/02/04

19

 

FS6: Critical Approaches

 

09/02/04

20

 

FS1: Storyboard Evaluation.

FS1 Micro Reading

16/02/04

 

HALF TERM

Homework: Auteur Catalogue &

Commentary + Evaluation

23/02/04

21

 

FS5: World Cinema – Japan

Ugetsu

01/03/04

22

 

FS4: Journalism 2 – Article

 

08/03/04

23

 

FS5: Japan – auteur

Tokyo Story

15/03/04

24

* Film Article

FS5: Japan – genre

 

22/03/04

25

 

 

Rashomon (Focus Film)

29/03/04

26

DEADLINE

Journalism: Aims & Evaluation

Cat. Commentary & Evaluation

05/04/04

 

Easter

Homework: FS5 Revision

Japanese Cinema

12/04/04

 

Break

                 FS6 Critical debates

 

19/04/04

27

 

Coursework ‘mop-up’

La Haine (Close Study)

26/04/04

28

 

Close study discussion

 

03/05/04

29

 

FS6 Past papers.

 

10/05/04

30

 

FS5 Past papers

All About my Mother(Close St)

17/05/04

31

 

Close Study discussion

 

24/05/04

32

 

Course Round-up

 

31/05/04

 

HALF TERM

 

 

07/06/04

33

 

Exams

 

14/06/04

34

 

Exams

 

21/06/04

35

 

Exams