Media and film studies
Analysing Film (E) - Year 1
Module code: P3082B
Level 4
15 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Film, Lecture, Seminar
Assessment modes: Coursework
Look. Look again. What do you see?
This module equips you with the key skills in examining film texts in close detail and thinking about how they create meanings. You’ll analyse the creative choices available to film-makers as well as the potential they have for generating meaning and pleasure when combined together.
You’ll explore the diverse ways in which film-makers use key techniques of cinematic expression such as:
- narrative
- cinematography
- mise-en-scène
- editing
- sound
- tone
The module includes many examples of contemporary cinema, such as Get Out (Peele, 2017), Carol (Haynes, 2015) and Sicario (Villeneuve, 2015).
Module learning outcomes
- Identify and accurately describe a range of filmic methods of story-telling, and audio-visual techniques of expression, at an appropriate introductory level.
- Demonstrate an understanding of connections between technological change and film aesthetics, at an appropriate introductory level.
- Deploy the above concepts and knowledges in the critical analysis of the meanings, impacts and affects generated in selected film sequences, at an appropriate introductory level.