Teaching Film and Media Studies – serie

This practical guide provides everything you need to introduce scriptwriting to your students, and establishes the basis for coursework for film or media studies. It demonstrates how scriptwriting, screenplays and storyboarding can be valuable both in the production context and as a way of engaging with key aspects of the media or film studies curriculum, with accessible reference to key critical and theoretical writing. This book is part of a series particularly aimed at teachers new to media studies post-16. The series provides information and ideas for teachers involved with the teaching of AS and A level media studies 9OCR, AQA and WJEC), AS and A level film studies (WJEC), GNVQ/AVCE, Btech, Scottish Highers/Advanced Highers, and Lifelong Learning courses. Each title consists of a detailed teaching guide which provides essential information and guidance on how to cover each topic effectively, with reference to assessment objectives.

Combining the creative perspectives of filmmakers with more analytic academic methods, this study invites film students to take an active approach in learning to understand how audiovisual language is used to create meaning in films. While the main focus is on the concept of film language, case study readings of The Warrior (2002) and Traffic (2001) place these films in their institutional contexts to demonstrate the multifaceted nature of how meaning is created. This study gives particular emphasis to understanding cinemaphotography, editing, music, and setting. Students are encouraged to reflect on their own responses and develop reading skills through a range of online classroom activities that demonstrate how audience interaction works to create meaning in film. Technical terms and techniques are explained in an extensive glossary and in special explanatory sections illustrated by a range of films.

Is there such a thing as 'World Cinema'? Is it simply cinema that isn't from Hollywood? Is British or European Cinema part of World Cinema or is World Cinema something other than our own? These key questions that students need to consider when studying this subject are addressed in this guide, which provides teachers with a comprehensive approach to teaching World Cinema topics. It offers opportunities for development of key concepts around case studies of national cinemas.

Music video is a popular form worldwide. It is a teachable and accessible topic because the videos are familiar to students, easy to get hold of and short. And because it is always changing, it makes an exciting and vibrant media form to study and analyse, raising interesting questions about representations, media language, institutions and audiences - the four key concepts of Media Studies. It has also had considerable influence formally and stylistically upon a range of other media and cultural artefacts globally. This teaching guide gives you everything you need to approach the topic with your students, including guidelines to practical work.

Provides a much-needed summary of the complex issues surrounding film censorship and controversy; offers some practical suggestions for teaching about the determining factors in, and ideological importance of, censorship and classification.

Examining the changes in male roles, and how these changes are explored in cinema, this book includes frameworks for teaching the topic, and accessible explanations of the cultural and critical background to changes in male roles. It provides in-depth film case studies that explore the changes and challenges to masculinity in the 21st century.

This comprehensive and insightful guide provides a theoretical understanding of the forms and functions of short films, from a variety of production contexts in this country and abroad. The guide establishes a conceptual approach to the analysis of short films and builds on this foundation to provide helpful advice for teachers and students who are producing their own short films. In addition to providing a framework for the production process, the guide demonstrates how practical work can be used to engage with key aspects of the Media and Film Studies curriculum. Contents include: Introduction - Assessment contexts, Rationale, Schemes of work; Background - history and development of the short film form; short film production - effective pre-production; production technologies; post-production; and finding an audience for short films - new possibilities in marketing and distribution. As with all the guides in this series, this title is supported by additional student materials on dedicated password accessible web pages.

What is 'black cinema'? Is it a valid category? What can films from as far afield, economically and geographically, as Nigeria and Hollywood possibly have in common? Focusing on films such as 'Lethal Weapon', 'Bullet Boy' and 'Malcolm X', this guide discusses various issues and looks at fresh ways into exploring the key concepts of Media Studies.