Film Studies study guides

A complete overview of the British and global film parts of OCR A-Level Film Studies. Explains British film since 1995 and ideology, social realism and context, the global film comparative study, the narrative approach, and world cinema contexts and distribution.

A complete overview of the critical approaches in OCR A-Level Film Studies. Explains spectatorship, ideology and representation, and auteur and narrative, how each is attached to the set films, and how to apply and evaluate a critical approach in the higher-tariff essays.

A complete overview of the documentary film section of OCR A-Level Film Studies Component 02. Explains documentary form and Nichols's modes, applying a filmmaker's theory, the critical debates around realism, ethics and digital technology, and how to analyse the set documentary.

A complete overview of film form in OCR A-Level Film Studies. Explains the micro-elements (cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, sound, performance) and macro-elements (narrative, genre), how they make meaning and shape the spectator's response, and how context fits the analysis.

A complete overview of the Hollywood and American film parts of OCR A-Level Film Studies Component 01. Explains the Hollywood comparative study (1930 to 1990), Classical and New Hollywood, American film since 2005 and spectatorship, and the auteur and ideology approaches.

A complete overview of the silent and experimental film movements in OCR A-Level Film Studies Component 02. Explains silent cinema as a film movement, German Expressionism, Soviet montage and silent comedy, analysing silent film form, and experimental film (1960 to 2000) through auteur and narrative.

A complete overview of the OCR A-Level Film Studies Making Short Film NEA. Explains the production options (a short film or a screenplay with storyboard), producing the work by applying film form, the evaluative analysis against set short films, and the AO3-led assessment.