Student Resources
Example Exam Questions
The Film Industry
- To what extent are Hollywood films simply ‘products’ made to make a profit?
- How important is marketing in influencing people to watch Hollywood films both at the cinema and on DVD?
- How are billboard posters and poster-style advertisements in newspapers and magazines used to create audiences for films?
The Film Audience
- What role does the internet now play in enabling people to develop their interest in films?
- In what ways do factors such as who we watch films with and where we watch films influence our viewing experience and our response to film material?
- How has the experience of watching films changed in recent years and how do you think it might develop in the future?
Stars
- To what extent are star images controlled by the film industry?
- To what extent are fans now able to determine the success or failure of individual stars?
- What are some of the ways in which fans and the film industry work together to create a star’s image?
British Comedy
- How is comedy used to represent serious situations and issues in the films you have studied?
- How useful have you found it to know something about the period in which the comedies you have studied were made?
- To what extent in your experience do comedy films tend to rely on stereotypes?
- What have been the chief comedy features of the films you have watched and how useful have these features been in helping to convey messages and values?
- What have the films you have studied had to say about the concept of ‘Britishness‘?
Swinging Britain 1963–1973
- What for you are the most striking uses of narrative construction in the films you have studied?
- Do the directors of the films you have studied employ narrative in particular ways to say make comment on class in this period?
- The films of Swinging Britain are essentially about freedom. Discuss how the films you have studied present freedom.
- Is there any benefit to understanding the narrative structures in the films of Swinging Britain in exploring the cultural context of the films you have studied?
- What particular Micro aspects employed in the films you have studied are significant in advancing either Narrative or Genre in the Swinging Britain period?