Eduqas A-Level Film Studies Global filmmaking perspectives overview quiz quiz

Two mainstream Hollywood films released within the same studio production cycle

One British heritage film and one American independent film in the English language

One European film and one film produced outside Europe in a non-English language

One observational documentary feature and one early silent comedy short

It pairs the auteur approach with ideology as its two specialist lenses

It applies the spectatorship specialist study area on its own, without contexts

It uses every specialist study area at once, layered over the core areas

It uses the core study areas only, with no specialist lens

Four

Two

Three

Five

The narrative debate

The aesthetic debate

The realist debate

The digital debate

The auteur approach combined with the narrative specialist study area

Spectatorship paired with ideology as the two specialist lenses

Critical debates and filmmakers' theories

The core study areas only, with no specialist lens attached

They are interchangeable terms for the chronological sequence of all film events

Story is only the spoken dialogue, while plot is restricted to the physical action onscreen

Story is the film's ending, while plot is simply the opening sequence of the film

Story is everything that happens in order; plot is what the film shows and in what order

Ties us to one character's knowledge

Lets us know more than any character

Removes all narration

Speeds up the editing

The Hollywood blockbuster tradition, built on spectacle, stars and tight genre formulas

The art cinema tradition (the director's vision, formal experiment, ambiguity)

The Hollywood Production Code tradition of strict moral self-censorship

The early silent slapstick comedy tradition of the studio era

Only through national television broadcast in their country of origin

Through the major Hollywood studio distribution networks and global marketing campaigns

Through the international festival circuit, art-house cinemas and subtitling

They never travel beyond their own domestic market at all

The same single critical debate applied identically across every one of the sections

A direct comparison of two contrasting films in every written response

An exclusive focus on the director's biography and intentions alone

Close analysis of specific film form read for meaning and response in context