Eduqas A-Level Film Studies film form and language overview quiz quiz

Plot, theme, character, setting and dialogue, the storytelling building blocks

Genre, narrative, style, context and audience response taken together as a set

Cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, sound, performance

Camera, lighting, colour, music and acting, the chief expressive techniques

The editing of shots together, that is the order and rhythm in which the shots are cut

Only the musical score and the non-diegetic sound added over the top of the finished film

The marketing of the film, including its posters, trailers and the studio's wider promotional campaign

Everything arranged within the frame: setting, props, costume, hair and make-up, lighting and staging

Diegetic is sourced in the film's world and heard by characters; non-diegetic is added over the film and heard only by us

Diegetic sound is simply the louder sound in a film, while non-diegetic sound is the quieter, low-volume background sound

Diegetic sound means all of the spoken dialogue, while non-diegetic sound means all the sound effects

There is no real difference between them; the two terms describe exactly the same kind of film sound

Bright high-key lighting

Low-key (chiaroscuro)

Soft, even fill lighting

Backlighting on its own

Sound design

Colour grading work

Continuity editing

Costume and wardrobe

A time-compressing sequence of shots that condenses a long period into a few moments

A long unbroken take that follows the action continuously without any cut at all

A type of sweeping camera movement that glides smoothly across the whole scene

The collision of shots to produce a new idea (intellectual montage)

The key elements of film form, meaning and response, the contexts of film

Auteur theory, film ideology and the study of spectatorship taken as the core areas

Narrative, genre and style, treated as the three central study areas of the course

Component 1, Component 2 and Component 3, the assessed parts of the qualification

Only as light entertainment, judged purely by how enjoyable an audience finds it

Both as a medium of representation and as an aesthetic medium

Only as a commercial business product, judged by the box-office money it makes

Only as a historical document, valued for the record it gives of its own period

As a separate stand-alone paragraph of historical background, kept apart from the analysis

Left out of the answer entirely, since context is not assessed in the written components

Woven into close analysis of film form, explaining a choice in light of its context

Only in the conclusion, gathered together as a final summary after the analysis is finished

Retelling the plot of the film accurately and in full before making any analytical comment

Listing as many separate techniques as possible to show the breadth of your knowledge

Describing the set and the props in close visual detail without explaining their effect

Naming a technique, then explaining the meaning and response it produces, tied to context