Film Studies is designed to enrich your existing appreciation and enjoyment of film. It is a well-established academic subject which offers you the opportunity to engage with a wide range of different films and gain confidence with a range of critical approaches to film. Learning to ‘read’ a film, considering the nature of the relationship between an audience and a film, and studying the importance of social and institutional factors to film production are core aims of the course.

 

Entry with:

GCSE grade B in a subject requiring good writing skills e.g English or humanities. 

• • The opportunity to study a wide range of films from a variety of approaches
• • Opportunities for examination work, coursework, creative work and analytical writing.
• • Opportunities for cinema visits.
• • A wide range of approaches: class discussion, individual study and research, written analysis, essays, writing screenplays, producing storyboards and film journalism.

 

Awarding body: WJEC

AS Level Units

Unit 1: Exploring film form 40%.
Unit 2: British and American film 60%.
 

Advanced (A2) Level Units

Unit 3: Film research and creative projects 50%.
Unit 4: Varieties of film experience: issues and debates 50%.
 

 

 

• • Purpose-built, well-equipped accommodation.
• • Large resource area.
• • Three editing suites and digital video cameras for students interested in making their own films.
• • Well-stocked library with film books and videos.

 

“I have thoroughly enjoyed studying Film Studies at Hills Road. Lessons are engaging and well thought out, course content has been diverse and stimulating. I feel that an A level in Film Studies has added depth to my understanding of both film and wider culture, and would therefore recommend the course to anyone with an interest in cinema or visual arts.”
Fergus Tevlin