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A-Level Film Studies (WJEC Eduqas) — the major board for Film Studies.
Overview
A-Level Film Studies (WJEC Eduqas) — the major board for Film Studies.
Complete topic map
Every topic recorded for this subject in the curriculum is reproduced below in its full hierarchy. The descriptions reflect the mapped scope without implying additional exam rules.
Micro-analysis of cinematography (including lighting), mise-en-scene, editing, sound and performance.
Film as a medium of representation and an aesthetic medium, and spectator response.
Social, cultural, political, historical, institutional and technological contexts.
Spectatorship, narrative, ideology, auteur and aesthetics, with critical debates and filmmakers' theories.
The technological transformation of production, editing, visual effects and distribution.
One Classical Hollywood and one New Hollywood film studied through auteur and context.
One mainstream and one independent contemporary US film studied through spectatorship and ideology.
Two contemporary British films studied through narrative and ideology.
One European and one non-European film studied through representations of cultures and societies.
A set documentary studied through a filmmaker's theory and the impact of digital technology.
A silent-era film studied through debates on its artistic and historical significance.
An experimental film studied through narrative and auteur, exploring non-mainstream form.
A short film or a screenplay with storyboard (non-exam assessment).
A written evaluation of the production against professionally produced short films (non-exam assessment).
How film form constructs representations of gender, age, ethnicity and place, and their ideology.
Film as an aesthetic medium and the auteur's signature style.
Where this subject applies
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AS-Level
Advanced Subsidiary — the first year of A-Level study (standalone or first half of the full A-Level).
A-Level (A2)
The full Advanced Level — AS content plus the second-year A2 content.
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