WJEC Eduqas Level 3 Advanced Subsidiary GCE in Film Studies

Course summary

The WJEC Eduqas A level in Film Studies aims to enable learners to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: • A diverse range of film, including documentary, film from the silent era, experimental film and short film. • The significance of film and film practice in national, global and historical contexts. • Film and its key contexts (including social, cultural, political, historical and technological contexts) • How films generate meanings and responses • Film as an aesthetic medium • The different ways in which spectators respond to film. It also aims to enable learners to: • Apply critical approaches to film and • Apply knowledge and understanding of film through either filmmaking or screenwriting.