Film Studies

Course summary

The A Level Film Studies course will cover all aspects of film – past, present and world-wide. It will also give you the opportunity to make your own short film or write your own screenplay. Why You Should Consider This Course? Why study film? Surely the question you should be asking is, “why wouldn’t I study film?” There has never been a better time to begin your Film journey as Barking and Dagenham Council have started building London’s largest film and TV production centre in Dagenham. Eastbrook Studios London will be the capital’s largest studio campus and film studies is a great opportunity to work your way into the film industry. Film combines both creativity and academia and as film is becoming integral in modern society, this will allow you to have a critical understanding of today’s society, as well as allowing you to begin your filmmaking career with a production opportunity in the coursework module. We continue to strive for excellence in all of our students and achieve fantastic results year on year. This is because we are enthusiastic about film and offer our young people all of the challenges and possibilities this art form can afford them. Through film we can discuss such diverse subjects as class, race, gender, politics, history, literature and all aspects of life in general. Students will learn to discuss and write about film in a lively and academic manner plus have the chance to work on their original movie scripts or their own short film.We do not discriminate between Hollywood blockbusters, small British films or the latest French art house masterpiece. Everything is up for debate and to give you an idea these are the compulsory texts we are currently studying: The beauty of Film Studies is that it compliments any subject. However History, Sociology, English, Media Studies and Drama are common.