Code: A1WFS
Film Studies is an academic A-Level, built around critical analysis and evaluation of a wide range of film texts. By studying film, you will develop your critical thinking and enrich your understanding of how cinema mirrors people, places and ideas. You will learn how films are bound to their social, cultural and historical contexts and how filmmakers from a range of backgrounds represent these features through engaging and inspiring artistic choices.
Film Studies will expose you to a wide range of film criticism, wider-reading, and journalism. It will give you an opportunity to develop your creative thinking and hone your research skills, as well as the opportunity to experience diverse approaches to the art of filmmaking that you will never have considered before.
In Year 12 you will study ground-breaking films from Classical and New Hollywood, contemporary mainstream and independent American cinema, and the challenging and socially conscious nature of British Film.
In Year 13 you will study examples of Spanish language and Iranian cinema, documentary film, silent cinema from the Soviet era, and the experimental work of Quentin Tarantino. You will also complete a screen-writing project as a Non-Examined Assessment.
Examined film texts:
Minimum Entry Requirements:
All Loughborough College
Sixth Form courses have minimum entry requirements of at least five GCSEs at
grade C/4 or above, including English Language and Maths.
Subject Specific Entry Requirements:
GCSE English
Language or English Literature at grade 5.
Film Studies is a suitable platform for progression to a range of Higher Education degree and vocational level courses. For those who do not wish to progress further within the field of Film Studies, this course also provides a coherent, engaging and culturally valuable course of study.
The skills developed on the course will also help further study in English literature and other analytical centred subjects. It also develops skills that can enable direct progression into employment.
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