CCEA A LEVEL MOVING IMAGE ARTS

If you enjoy watching films, being creative or developing your technical and analytical skills then you should consider Moving Image Arts. The two year course will teach you some of the main developments in cinema history, film language and all the skills you need to plan and produce your own short film.

CCEA are the only examination board to offer this innovative subject which allows students to develop a range a skills including:

• technical and expressive competence making films

• critical understanding of film language, narrative and audience

• developing the ability to manage resources, people and equipment

• developing team-work, creativity and problem-solving skills

• using their initiative and evaluating their effectiveness.

Unit AS 1: Realist and Formalist Techniques and the Classical Holywood Style: Foundation Portfolio

Students produce:

• a statement of intention

• pre-production materials

• pne 3-4 minute narrative film sequence or 1.5 - 2 minute animation sequence based on provided stimuli; and

• an evaluation

Teachers mark the coursework and CCEA moderate the results

Weighting: 60% of AS, 24% of A Level

Unit A" 2: Critical Response

Students take a 1 hour 30 minute online examination with questions on clips from set study areas

Section A - Alfred Hitchcock and the Classical Holywood Style

Section B - Formation: Early European Cinema and American Expressionism

CCEA set the examination and mark it

Weighting: 40% of AS, 16% of A Level

Unit A2 1: Creative Production and Research: Advanced Portfolio

Students produce:

• an illustrated essay

• pre-production materials

• one 4-7 minute long narrative film or 2-3.5 minute long animation; and

• an evaluation

Teachers mark the coursework and CCEA moderate the results

Weighting: 36% of A Level

Unit A2: Advanced Critical Response

Students take a 2 hour 15 minute online examination with questions based on clips from set study areas and an unseen script

Section A - Realism: Narrative and Visual Style

Section B - Creative Exercise

Section C - Comparative Analysis

CCEA set the examination and mark it

Weighting: 24% of A Level