Film Criticism
Subject Overview
Students will be introduced to the process of critical analysis and new terms to describe film as well as to identify the negatives and positives of a film, what they liked and didn’t like about a film and use appropriate descriptors in context. Students will explore two areas to critique: performance and direction. They will discover the basics of analysing film structure and interpret how well the director used mise-en-scene in a film and provide their opinions on whether the performances were authentic. Students will also learn how to structure a film review and work towards producing a film review during the course. BYOD: Students will need access to a dictionary and thesaurus.
Duration
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Contact Hours: 3 hours per week
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Total Hours: 30
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Duration: 10 weeks
Aims
- Explore how context impacts on film story and form.
- Examine aspects of film craft such as mise-en-scene, diegetic and non-diegetic sound, musical composition and genre, and their relationship to the creation of meaning in film
- Discover and break down ‘story world’ and how a story world is different for each film
- Develop and create film reviews independently as well as in teams