Coursework
AS1  Show knowledge and understanding of how film form & style both
engage audiences.  An ability to identify and explore your own
responses to range of examples from film texts.

Exam: Producers and Audiences
AS2  Show knowledge and understand of how cinema functions as a
business & an institution.  An ability to discuss the relation of
cinema to audiences and to articulate your participation as a
consumer, as a critic & as a fan in the social practice of cinema.

Exam: Messages and Values
AS3  Identify messages & values through the study of representation in
British & Irish cinema.

Coursework + Exam: Messages & Values
AS4  Show understanding through the practical application of learning
from the textual study of film.

Coursework + Exam: Studies in World Cinema
AL1  Show further knowledge and understanding of spectator/text
relations, by refering to 'authorship' and to films from different
historical periods & cinematic traditions.

Coursework + Exams: Studies in World Cinema + Critical Studies
AL2  Show further knowledge and appreciation of the relationship of
producers & audiences.  An ability to locate cinema institutions in
their economic, social & cultural context.

Exams: Studies in World Cinema + Critical Studies
AL3  Further identification of messages & values, specifically through
critical approaches to film extracts, to whole films and to groups
of films.  To be able to evaluate the uses of these critical
approaches.

Coursework
AL4  Show knowledge and understanding from textual & critical study, in
creative work, such as journalism.
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Film Studies   ~ Better by Direction  ~
Advanced Level Assessment Criteria
i.e. The Aims and Objectives of the A Level Course.
Corresponding Modules

FS1




FS2





FS3



FS1 &
FS3


FS1
FS5 &
FS4



FS4,
FS5 &
FS6



FS5 &
FS6




FS4