Contexts of film overview quiz - WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Film Studies quiz

The everyday life, attitudes and social structures of the time and place

The camera lenses used

The number of awards it won

The length of the credits

The film's running time

The colour palette

The musical score

The power, politics, ideologies and events of the day

Front and back

Light and dark

Production (shaping the film) and reception (shaping how it is understood)

Sound and image

Because the film is re-edited each time

Because the actors age

Because the score is replaced

Because audiences bring their own changing knowledge and attitudes (the reception context)

Exhibition

Distribution

Production

Reception

Making the film

Getting the film to audiences and marketing it (trailers, posters, publicity)

Writing the screenplay

Designing the costumes

Showing the film to audiences (cinemas, television, streaming, festivals)

Filming on location

Editing the footage

Recording the score

Films made outside the studio system on tiny budgets

Films shown only at festivals

Big-budget films from major studios, made for wide release and large audiences

Silent films only

Films made outside the major studio system, usually on smaller budgets, often personal or experimental

Any film with subtitles

Films that lose money

Films made before 1950

The invention of the wheel

The move from silent film to synchronised sound

The first novel

The opening of the first library

It made films shorter

It removed the need for actors

It ended the use of sound

It opened up new possibilities for mood, spectacle and realism

They changed how films are shot and edited and what can be shown on screen

They made all films black and white

They removed the soundtrack

They banned widescreen

Link the context to specific features of the film

Write a general history lesson that never returns to the film

Choose the most relevant context

Consider both production and reception

It has no effect on the film

It only affects the film's title

It shapes both the kind of story told and how the film reaches viewers

It only affects the running time