Thursday 21 May 2009

What has Rough Trade got to with the examination?

You may well ask the very question at the top of the page - and there is an answer - here are some helpful slideshows to get you started - then you need to work the case study into the surrounding structure.

Basically - write about this and then write about that [ROUGH TRADE] and then conclude - marks are then in the bag




Friday 15 May 2009

for those that like to do stuff at home

here are a number of articles, essays, powerpoints and general notes to aide the learning process and make you somehow feel safe and secure that you can do examinations and all that stuff. In order to fully address what's been going on in class i will 'break it down' [an old hip-hop reference - you can see that i am street] for all those at the back

Year 13 Film Studies
FS5 World Cinema - as you know we studied the new wave - particularly the French New Wave and as it is celebrating 50 years of being 'hip, cool and generally subversive' their have been a number of features written looking at its impact. Which is good - because that's what your question will be like. So here goes - something to get your teeth into and make notes from,

The Sight and Sound feature
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49531/

a really heavy article all about Godard and history - it has some excellent quotes about the ways in which his work developed and relates to the social conditions of the time.
http://www.h-france.net/rude/Nettelbeck2.pdf

and finally - because who reads more than three articles in an evening - here's one about Agnes Varda - because it wasn't only men who made new wave films.
http://itpworld.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/varda-and-the-nouvelle-vague/


FS6 Critical Studies

Here's some stuff on current censorship debates

This is the screeenonline site that links to the BFI - it really is the most up to date resource you can have.
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/445733/
this one is all about sex and violence
http://www.filmreference.com/encyclopedia/Academy-Awards-Crime-Films/Censorship-SEX-AND-VIOLENCE.html
and here's Julian Petley's webpage at Brunel University [they really do teach people] it outlines his role in the whole violence and regulation debate - you can use the references to begin an exploration of his ideas.
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sa/artstaff/filmtv/julianpetley

Year 13 Media Studies

Here's an incredibly long powerpoint detailing the birth and development of the horror genre.




Here is another one that deals with the 'slasher film' don't be put off by the graphics on this one - it contains a great deal of theory matched to good examples.


I just thought i'd put this here as well - because it is scary - actually i think it may well have scarred me for life. My mother made me watch this - because my dad was on nightshift and she'd already watched the first part and wanted to see how it would conclude. Suffice to say my brother and I screamed a great deal that evening.




I will blog more later on - for year 12s and stuff - keep on coming back - i hear the film owl's in town.