This year we will watch, engage critically with and explore a wide range of film, including films from different cultural perspectives and films from the Silent Era to the present day, in order to develop and sustain confident, personal responses to film via textual analysis.

Assessment objectives:
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of elements of film
- Apply knowledge and understanding of elements of film to analyse and compare films, including through the use of critical approaches
- Evaluate the significance of critical approaches
- Analyse and evaluate own work in relation to other professionally produced work
- Apply knowledge and understanding of elements of film to the production of a film or screenplay

We will:
- explore the contexts in which films are made, distributed and viewed, including social, cultural, historical, institutional, technological and political contexts
- develop a working knowledge of the language and syntax of film
- consider film as an aesthetic medium
- interrogate how concepts such as narrative, genre, representation, spectatorship and aesthetics are used to generate meaning
- evaluate the different ways in which spectators respond to film
- apply a variety of critical approaches to film
- produce a short film or screenplay

Students will be expected to view at least one film each week and to write one blog each week as assessed homework, so it is important to keep on top of the work and prepare fully for classes. I am sure we will have a fascinating and stimulating year studying some amazing films!