City of God - Independent Research Project

Your Assessment Objectives for A2 state that you must be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of film as an audio-visual form of creative expression, together with its contexts of production and reception and of the diversity in film making across different historical periods and locations (AO1).



In order to develop the skills needed for study at A2, and to support your understanding of the production and reception contexts of 'City of God', Miss Ryan will be introducing an Independent Research Project on Brazil.

Power, Poverty and Conflict

Welcome back, Year 12! You wonderful lot.

We are beginning this half term with a focus on Section A of the FM4 exam: Urban Stories.

One of our films is set in Brazil and we are, in a way, very lucky that there will be a huge media focus on the country over the coming months. As well as showing information about the World Cup, media outlets are trying to show the other side of the country and that is the side we are most interested in!

Links:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/09/let-them-eat-football-rio-de-janeiro-sao-paulo-anti-world-cup-graffiti

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/jun/09/brazils-anti-world-cup-street-art-in-pictures

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04655bf/panorama-brazil-in-the-shadow-of-the-stadiums

How Movies Teach Manhood

What's your opinion on this? Were you surprised to hear about the Bechdel test?

Read this: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/06/swedish-cinemas-bechdel-test-films-gender-bias

Harvard Referencing for the Small Scale Research Project

Year 13: The blog post for Harvard Referencing can be found here.

http://filmstudiesatcampion.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/harvard%20referencing

Film 2013

Good news! Film 2013 will return to BBC One on Wednesday 6th November.

You can watch some clips from the last series here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pyxh0/clips

You can find the weekly BBC Film Review here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24404882

Mark Kermode, from BBC Radio 5 Live blogs about film here at Kermode Uncut and has an excellent Podcast 'Kermode and Mayo's Film Review':

And if you can recommend any other film sites then let Miss Ryan know.