Y12 - AUDIENCES AND INSTITUTIONS BLOG: This is a blog set up with all the resources from your lessons and links to sites that will help you with extra revision
Y13 - BFI - Screenonline: A useful resource for researching the British Film Industry. Remember, the exam focuses on contemporary (modern) British cinema so don't spend too long learning the history
Y13 - Shane Meadows - links to his website. He is an independent film maker who makes low budget, low revenue films but they are excellent. The website has links to many interviews and clips of his films. Click on Extras and read the transcript from the Brief Encounter Film Festival. He says some interesting things about how having a bigger budget and well known actors compromised his creativity.
Monday 16 March 2009
Past Exam Questions for British Film Industry
January 2007
Contemporary British Cinema
7 Discuss what you consider to have been the strengths of the British cinema industry in recent
years. [45 marks]
8 “The country of origin of a film is irrelevant. Why should we be bothered if all the films at our
cinemas were made in the USA?” Discuss this view. [45 marks]
June 2007
Contemporary British Cinema
7 Discuss the view that British films, regardless of their quality, struggle to achieve commercial
success. [45 marks]
8 “The British film industry mainly consists of a wealthy and privileged elite who represent British
culture in a very narrow way.” Discuss this view. [45 marks]
January 2008
Contemporary British Cinema
7 To what extent is the British film industry influenced by films produced in the USA? [45 marks]
8 “British film makers have been guilty of producing a string of films no one wants to watch.”
(film maker Alan Parker). Discuss this view. [45 marks]
June 2008
Contemporary British Cinema
7 Discuss the factors that limit the success of the British film industry.
8 “Most young audiences are put off by the style and the subject matter of British films.”
Discuss this view.
Contemporary British Cinema
7 Discuss what you consider to have been the strengths of the British cinema industry in recent
years. [45 marks]
8 “The country of origin of a film is irrelevant. Why should we be bothered if all the films at our
cinemas were made in the USA?” Discuss this view. [45 marks]
June 2007
Contemporary British Cinema
7 Discuss the view that British films, regardless of their quality, struggle to achieve commercial
success. [45 marks]
8 “The British film industry mainly consists of a wealthy and privileged elite who represent British
culture in a very narrow way.” Discuss this view. [45 marks]
January 2008
Contemporary British Cinema
7 To what extent is the British film industry influenced by films produced in the USA? [45 marks]
8 “British film makers have been guilty of producing a string of films no one wants to watch.”
(film maker Alan Parker). Discuss this view. [45 marks]
June 2008
Contemporary British Cinema
7 Discuss the factors that limit the success of the British film industry.
8 “Most young audiences are put off by the style and the subject matter of British films.”
Discuss this view.
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