1. Making a Cake
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2. • Look at your recipe card
• ‘Make’ your cake
• Take it out of the oven (draw it)
Now compare them- are they all the same?
• What other ingredients can you add?
• What other tins could you use?
• Add them to your drawing/draw it from scratch
Now compare them, are they all the same?
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3. How can we apply this to Film studies?
• All the cakes were very similar at the
beginning because their ingredients did not
vary.
• So far all we have studied in film studies are
mainstream narrative films.
• If we vary the ingredients (conventions) of
films and serve them up to a different
audience, then we can create something very
different.
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4. Aims
• To understand what the focus of your A2
exam is.
• To know what the different sections are.
• To start to develop an understanding and
appreciation of non-mainstream film.
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5. FM4 – Varieties of Film Experience
• Your exam topics are all focussed on alternatives
to the mainstream.
• There are 3 sections to the exam:
• Section A – World Cinema – International Film
Styles (Surrealism) 35 marks.
• Section B – Spectatorship Topics – Experimental
and Expanded Film/video 35 marks.
• Section C – Single Film – Critical Study 30 marks
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6. Section B markscheme
• Level 3
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7. Section B markscheme
• Level 4
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8. So how can a film be experimental?
• Jot down ideas- what could films experiment
with?
• Discuss in pairs films that you have seen that
were experimental in some way. What did
they do that was different?
– What was the effect on the audience?
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9. What can film-makers experiment
with?
• Time
• Place
• Method
• Technology
• Editing
• Narrative
• Repetition
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10. Homework
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