Exam paper practice

1. Title:
Exam Practice
Date:
Friday 9th January 2015
FM4:
Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

2. Why?
Aims & Objectives
• YOU WILL re-cap prior
learning.
• YOU WILL develop your
understanding of the texts
studied so far to establish
HOW certain key examples
apply to an Exam Question.
• YOU WILL learn more about
WJEC’s expectations of YOU!
• Review the learning.
AO1
Demonstrate knowledge and
understanding of film as an
audio-visual form of creative
expression together and
AO2
Apply knowledge and
understanding, including
some of the common critical
approaches that characterise
the subject, when exploring
and analysing films.

3. Re-cap – WHAT have you been able to
find?
?
?
? ? ?
Narrative
Characters
Social Issues
Crime
Location

4. Main Activity
‘The stylistic choices made by filmmakers
define not just the look but also the meaning
of a
film.’
How far is this true of the films you have
studied for this topic? (Summer 2012)

5. “SIMPLES!”
filmmakers
WHO are they?

6. “SIMPLES!”
Stylistic Choices
WHY in the native language?
Afrikaans, Zulu and XhosaPortuguese

7. HOW was this achieved in the film?
YOU MUST give x1 example of for EACH statement.
YOU SHOULD refer to your notes on the text from
previous lesson.
“Our primary intention was to make a
taut, well-paced, character driven,
psychological thriller”
“..transport our audiences into a
World of radical contrasts”
Gavin Hood

8. 1. – “READ”
2. -
“Highlight”
‘The stylistic choices made by filmmakers define not just the look but also the meaning of
a film.’
How far is this true of the films you have studied for this topic? (Summer 2012)

9. ‘The stylistic choices made by filmmakers define not just the look but also the meaning of
a film.’
How far is this true of the films you have studied for this topic? (Summer 2012)
Tsotsi –
- What are the connotations behind the white
shirt Tsotsi wears at the end?
- Use of Non-diegetic music – Meanings
presented to the spectator?
- Mise-en-scene – e.g. Setting, Lighting –
Connotations
- Use of Flashbacks – What do they reveal
about Tsotsi?
City of God–
- Non-Linear Narrative
- Non-Diegetic Voiceover
- Mise-en-scene
- Cinematography
- Representation of Violence
- Character roles
3. - “DRAW” (Plan)
YOU MUST plan (A4 Page) WHAT examples you are going to
refer to.

10. 4. - “Explain”
Feedback - WHY these examples?

11. 6. – “Answer the Question”
YOU MUST - using your planning notes and previous
work completed – Answer the Question on the
computer.

12. ALL Past Paper Questions from 2012 onwards will
be available to access in the Public Drive Folder
above in ‘A2 Film Studies’.
There are a number of hard copy past papers in
the office as well so feel free to borrow any
papers needed for further study.

13. Homework
1) FINISH your type-up to the answer – AT LEAST 3
Pages – Send to Mr Crafts for Assessment
2) Continue to revise for the exam
Due: Next Lesson –
Monday 12th January – Period 3