A-Level Film Studies enable you to analyze, explore, and make moving images. It offers a varied, exciting, and accessible introduction to Film theory, Film history, and filmmaking. You will investigate the way British Film reflects our society; figure out how modern Hollywood films manipulate our emotional responses; consider how films reflect the era they were made in; and expand your horizons through the study of Global Film, Documentary, and Experimental Cinema. Then, after studying professional approaches, put theory into practice with the filmmaking or screenwriting coursework component. American and British Film: Looking in depth and detail at six feature films including Inception, La La Land, Winter’s Bone, Vertigo, Blade Runner and This is England we will use them to explore modern-day Hollywood Films, Hollywood films made between the 1960s and 1990s, Classical Hollywood, American Independent Film and British Film. This unit will also act as our introduction to Film form, developing your grasp of how camera work, sound design, staging, editing, and story structure are employed by filmmakers. Varieties of Film: Here you explore everything from Silent Film (focussing on German Expressionism) to Digital Experimental Film (explored through Pulp Fiction and the films of Tarantino), the power and importance of Documentary filmmaking, European Film (Pan’s Labyrinth) and Global Film (City of God), concluding with a detailed exploration of a compilation of short films. The films we analyze here are varied, challenging, and exciting examples of what Film outside Hollywood can offer. Production: You produce either a short film or a screenplay for a short film, together with a digitally photographed storyboard of a key section from your film. This is your opportunity to develop your creative and technical skills, telling stories and making meanings through practical production or creative writing.