OCR A-Level Film Studies British and global film overview quiz quiz

Auteur

Spectatorship

Genre

Ideology

Naturalistic performance and location shooting

Glossy purpose-built studio sets and a cast of established stars

Heavy reliance on CGI and digital visual effects throughout

A guaranteed happy ending that resolves every plot thread

A huge vertically integrated studio system rivalling Hollywood in scale

A small, often publicly funded industry overshadowed by Hollywood

A complete and total lack of any trained or working directors at all

A long-standing legal ban on any kind of location shooting in Britain

Two mainstream American studio films released since the year 2005

One single documentary feature studied entirely on its own merits

Two global films, one European and one from outside Europe

Two silent-era films made before the arrival of synchronised sound

It always relies on even tighter cause-and-effect chains than Hollywood does

It never tells any kind of story and avoids narrative entirely on principle

It always resolves with fully closed endings and complete narrative closure

It may use slower pacing, open or episodic structures and ambiguity

Story is all events in chronological order; plot is the selection and arrangement the film shows

They are simply the same thing described using two interchangeable terms

Plot is the printed cast list, while story is simply the order in which the credits appear on screen

Story is the film's soundtrack and plot is the dialogue spoken by characters

Beginning, middle and the rolling of the closing credits

Equilibrium, disruption, new equilibrium

Establishing wide shot, then a close-up, then a cut

Scripting, shooting and finally editing the footage together

Only ever through English-language Hollywood remakes of the original

Exclusively through wide saturation blockbuster releases worldwide

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

They never travel beyond their own national market under any circumstances

Judged strictly against mainstream Hollywood norms and conventions

Ignored entirely so the film can be assessed on pure form alone

Treated as a weakness or a barrier that the analysis should overlook

Read in light of the society and history the film comes from

Comparing the two films directly and respecting cultural specificity

Describing each film in turn separately with no direct cross-reference

Listing the festivals and award ceremonies each film appeared at

Judging both films strictly against Hollywood norms and conventions