OCR Thursday 7 October 2021 – Morning A Level Film Studies H410/01 Film History. PREDICTOR QUESTIONS

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SECTION A – Film Form in US Cinema from the Silent Era to 1990 Answer Questions 1 and 2, and either Question 3 or Question 4. You should have studied one US film from each of the lists below. Ques... tions 1–4 require you to write about the US films you have studied. Silent Era 1930–1960 1961–1990 Birth of a Nation (1915). Directed by D.W. Griffith. USA Citizen Kane (1941). Directed by Orson Welles. USA 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Directed by Stanley Kubrick. USA The Gold Rush (1925). Directed by Charles Chaplin. USA Singin’ in the Rain (1952). Directed by Gene Kelly / Stanley Donen. USA Raging Bull (1980). Directed by Martin Scorsese. USA The Mark of Zorro (1920). Directed by Fred Niblo / Theodore Reed. USA Stagecoach (1939). Directed by John Ford. USA E.T. (1982). Directed by Steven Spielberg. USA The General (1926). Directed by Clyde Bruckman / Buster Keaton. USA Vertigo (1958). Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. USA Do the Right Thing (1989). Directed by Spike Lee. USA Sunrise (1927). Directed by F.W. Murnau. USA Double Indemnity (1944). Directed by Billy Wilder. USA The Conversation (1974). Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. USA The Wind (1928). Directed by Victor Sjostrom. USA All that Heaven Allows (1955). Directed by Douglas Sirk. USA West Side Story (1961). Directed by Jerome Robbins / Robert Wise. USA Answer Questions 1 and 2. 1 Explain why casting is an important element of film production. Give two examples from one film from 1930–1960 that you have studied. [10] 2 Analyse how costume is used to create meaning in at least two examples from one film from the silent era that you have studied. [10] Answer either Question 3 or Question 4. EITHER 3* Compare how sound contributes to the aesthetics of one film from 1930–1960 and one film from 1961–90 that you have studied. Give detailed examples from both films. [35] OR 4* Compare how editing contributes to the aesthetics of one film from the silent era and one film from 1961–90 that you have studied. Give detailed examples from both films. [35]3 © OCR 2021 H410/01 Oct21 SECTION B – European Cinema History Answer Question 5 and either Question 6 or Question 7. You should have studied both of the experimental surrealist films below: Un Chien Andalou (1929). Directed by Luis Buñuel. France. L’Age d’Or (1930). Directed by Luis Buñuel. France. You should also have studied one film from the table below: German expressionist French new wave The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920). Directed by Robert Wiene. Germany The 400 Blows (1959). Directed by François Truffaut. France Nosferatu (1922). Directed by F.W. Murnau. Germany À Bout de Souffle (1960). Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. France Metropolis (1927). Directed by Fritz Lang. Germany Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962). Directed by Agnes Varda. France Answer Question 5. 5 Analyse how either the German expressionist or the French new wave film you have studied displays innovation in its use of the micro elements of film. [15 [Show More]

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