FiltonfilmA2

Thursday 25 October 2018

Bridging work and what a Treatment looks like

A2 level Film – your second year.

The second year of Film Studies will include Global film, Documentary film, the Silent era and the Experimental Film movement. It will also include a Non-Exam Assessment of a longer and completed screenplay – or a complete short film.

Introduction

The second year of Film Studies means the course becomes an A level rather than an AS, this means that Global Film includes Timbuktu and Pan’s Labyrinth in a two film study; Beasts of the Southern Wild is studied alongside No Country for Old Men in terms of Spectatorship, we study the advent of Digital Technology and its effect on the Documentary as well as the work of several documentary film-makers; plus we look at the work of Buster Keaton’s short ten minute films and finish with the experimental film movement and the work of Quentin Tarantino.

Task 1 Decide on your new script:

Write out the treatment – 300-600 words that explain the story and:

How the twist, enigma, single character or conflict is developed

If you’re using last term’s screenplay, how are you updating and making it better – ending?

Task 2: Global film

Watch one other non-English film (Global) from any director – try to choose something interesting like ‘Tsotse’ or ‘The Wave’ write a short appreciation of how this film was different to the Hollywood mainstream – and what messages it conveyed, if any.

Task 3: Documentary.

Find out about and learn the six modes of documentary (Bill Nichols)

Task 4: Performance.

Performance:

Find out about Performance – the Stanislavski technique and ‘the Method’ and how they are applied to acting.