Film Studies A Level

Audiences are passive and easily influenced by the films they consume How far do you agree or disagree Passive: Filmgoers are a homogenous mass who respond identically to a film's narratives/messages Active: each spectator is different and will bring their own core values and ideological beliefs to a film, responding to the film's messages in varying ways. Post structuralism: Post structuralist makes the emphasis away from the author and posits the notion that all meaning is derived by the person consuming it. Therefore, the messages in the film are shaped by the consumer's own perspectives which are shaped by a number of demographic factors. "A text (book/film/painting) only comes into existence in the act of 'reading' it. In this way the reader of the text in a way simultaneously its creator." - Nelmes

set: texas genre: western; car surprises the spectator mood: empty, the narrator is old and experienced lack of diegetic music encourages the spectator to independently form opinions. Uneasy about decision come to. Ambiguous opening, the spectator has to speculate about when and where the setting is We always study: Film form Meaning and response Contexts In this film we study: Spectatorship  ideology Questions: How far do your chosen films demonstrate a constant shift between passive and active spectatorship refer in detail to at least one sequence from each film How far do you chosen films demonstrate the importance of visual and soundtrack cues in influencing spectator response refer in detail to at east one sequence from each film How valuable has ideological analysis been in developing your understanding of the themes of your chosen films spectator vs audience: "even though theories of spectatorship isolate the self, this self is an abstract concept ra...

PULP FICTION a)       Explore how far your chosen film or films are experimental in challenging conventional approaches to narrative b)       Explore how far cinematography contributes to the ‘experimental’ identity of your chosen film or films Characteristics of Experimental film -           Deliberately opposing the conventions of mainstream cinema. -           Refusal to be bound to the typical rules of telling a story. -            rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms and alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working. [1]  Many experimental films, particularly early ones, relate to arts in other disciplines: painting, dance, literature and poetry, [2]  or arise from research and development of new technical resour...