Key Dates

Coursework Dates

Draft Catalogue Deadline: 14/10/16

Draft - Completed Catalogue & Script: 10/12/16

• Final Deadline: Catalogue & Script - 15/12/17


• Creative Project Deadline: 17/3/18

FM4 Exam: 8/6/18 (am)

FM2 Exam (AS re-sit) : 15/5/18 (am)

Year At A Glance (subject to change depending upon learning)

Week	Session 1	Session 2	Session 3	Session 4
	Induction Week
	Coursework Instruction Research FM3-Annotated Catalogue	World Cinema FM4	Urban Stories Section A	Urban Stories  ‘La Haine’
	Coursework Instruction Research FM3-Annotated Catalogue	Practice Assesment Discussion Assessment 1		Urban Stories  ‘La Haine’
	- films focusing on the struggle within communities    - films focusing on the struggle between a community and the ruling   power structures   - films concerned with ‘living with crime’  - films dealing with alienation produced by technology and social   organisation, including films set in the future The films may also be linked by stylistic approach:  - films working from a neo-realist / documentary aesthetic  - films working with new wave / experimental techniques  - films based on genre cinema (for example, melodrama or comedy)			Urban Stories ‘City Of God’ Exam Responses Test Questions
	Urban Stories ‘Chungking Express’		Coursework Instruction Research FM3-Annotated Catalogue	Coursework Instruction Research FM3-Annotated Catalogue
	Coursework Instruction Research FM3-Annotated Catalogue Individual Tutorials	Coursework Instruction Research FM3-Annotated Catalogue Individual Tutorials	Coursework Instruction Research FM3-Annotated Catalogue	Coursework Instruction Research FM3-Annotated Catalogue
	Half Term
	Spectatorship Introduction to topic – ‘Un Chien Andalou’ Group work/feedback ‘La Jetee’ – Group work/feedback	Experimental Viewing, analysis and discussion to establish approach to topic for FM4 exam Section B	Coursework Instruction Research FM3-Presentatation Script	Coursework Instruction Research FM3-Presentatation Script
	Experimental/Avant garde Cinema. The film text and spectatorship. ‘Kenneth Anger’‘	To introduce students to avant-garde cinema its elements, issues and meaning for the viewer.	Coursework Instruction Research FM3-Presentatation Script	Coursework Instruction Research FM3-Presentatation Script
	Experimental/Avant garde Cinema. The film text and spectatorship. ‘Andy Warhol’	To introduce students to avant-garde cinema its elements, issues and meaning for the viewer.	Coursework Instruction Research FM3-Presentatation Script	Coursework Instruction Research FM3-Presentatation Script
	Experimental/Avant garde Cinema. The film text and spectatorship. ‘Stan Brakhage’‘	To introduce students to avant-garde cinema its elements, issues and meaning for the viewer.	Practical Experimental Exercise 1	Research
	Critical Study	Fight Club	-Jack /Tyler Durden – the meaning and significance of this split person  -A progressive film or a deeply reactionary one? -The representation of modern urban and corporate life -The representation of masculinity and its threats  -Marla: women as object of scorn? Misogynistic? -Managing the spectator’s identification and sympathies -Distinctive stylistic features and the look of the film -Motifs and their function -The social and cultural context of production -Critical and popular responses to the film
	Issues	Analysis
	Exam Week
	Christmas
	Research Workshops
	Spectatorship Introduction to topic – Group work		Experimental Viewing, analysis and discussion to establish approach to topic for FM4 exam Section B	Compare/ Contrast
	Spectatorship Introduction to topic – Group work		Experimental Viewing, analysis and discussion to establish approach to topic for FM4 exam Section B	Compare/ Contrast
	Practical	Practical	Practical	Practical
	Practical	Practical	Practical	Practical
	Practical	Practical	Practical	Practical
	Half Term
	Practical	Practical	Practical	Practical
	Practical	Practical	Practical	Practical
	Practical	Practical	Practical	Practical
	Practical	Practical	Practical	Practical
	Practical	Practical	Practical	Practical
	End Of Term
	Urban Stories Section A		Revision
	Critical Study	Fight Club	Revision
	Issues	Analysis
	Exam Prep