Moving Image Arts study guides

A guide to the CCEA A2 1 Advanced Portfolio: the Illustrated Essay researching a chosen film practitioner, the pre-production materials, the longer completed film or animation sequence, and the original creative idea. Explains how the non-examined coursework applies practitioner research and film movements, and how it extends the AS 1 Foundation Portfolio.

A deep-dive CCEA A-Level Moving Image Arts guide to the A2 2 Advanced Critical Response examination. Covers the major film movements - the Classical Hollywood style, Soviet Montage, German Expressionism, Italian Neo-Realism and the French New Wave - and the advanced exam skills of comparative unseen-clip analysis and writing director's notes from an unseen script.

A guide to the CCEA AS 1 Foundation Portfolio: the Statement of Intention, the pre-production documents, the completed film or animation sequence, and the evaluation. Explains how the non-examined coursework applies the Classical Hollywood, realist and formalist technique you study for the AS 2 Critical Response examination, and how it is assessed and moderated.

A deep-dive CCEA A-Level Moving Image Arts guide to the AS 2 Critical Response examination. Covers the elements of film language assessed in unseen clips - mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and montage, sound, narrative and genre - and the realist and formalist approaches that organise them, with the analytical method the exam rewards.