Eduqas GCSE Film Studies Production NEA overview quiz quiz

The Production non-exam assessment (NEA), worth 30 per cent, carrying AO3

A written exam all about US film, sat at the end of the course in the exam hall

A multiple-choice test of facts about the films you have studied during the course

A written exam on global film, comparing films from several different countries

A film poster or a trailer made to advertise an imaginary upcoming film

A short film (or a section of one), or a screenplay for a short film with a storyboard

A written essay about a film, or a spoken presentation given aloud to the rest of the class

A factual documentary or a music video, with no other options allowed

A film you choose to copy

The exam timetable

The annual Eduqas brief

A set film from Component 1

Writing the longest possible analysis, packed with as many words as you can manage

Copying a professional film exactly, shot for shot, so that your own work looks just as polished

Spending the most money you can on the production, hiring equipment and locations

Controlling the key elements of film form to make meaning in original work, and evaluating it

Deliberately and meaning-led, to create a specific effect in keeping with the brief

Only so that the production looks and sounds technically competent, with no meaning behind it

By closely imitating a favourite film, reusing its shots and ideas as your own

At random during the filming itself, deciding shots and sound on the spot

The full cast list, naming every single performer and the character that each one plays

The intended film form of a key section (shot types, framing, transitions, sound cues)

The total budget, listing the cost of every item used in the production

The full script written out once again, exactly word for word

So you can copy them exactly, lifting their very best shots and ideas straight into your own production without changing them

It mainly fills the time before filming starts and keeps you busy while you wait

It shows how films use film form to create effects, giving techniques to apply (not copy) and feeding the evaluative analysis

It is not really useful and is best skipped to save time for filming

Only a budget that lists the cost of every item you intend to use

Only the final edited cut of the film, with no documents made beforehand

A quiz about the film and a poster advertising it to a possible audience

A treatment, a script, a shot list, a storyboard and a schedule

A written piece reflecting on your choices and relating them to films studied, evaluating how well they made the intended meaning

A plain description of the whole filming process, simply recounting each thing that you did, step by step, in the order you did it

A list of all the equipment used during the production, such as cameras, lights and sound gear

A second short film made to go alongside the first one you produced

Between writing a long piece and writing a short piece, where the longer one always scores more highly

Between describing (recounting what you did) and evaluating (judging how well it worked and why)

Between choosing the short film option and choosing the screenplay option

Between shooting your production in colour and shooting it in black-and-white