FILM STUDIES

Why Choose Film Studies?

Film Studies at Marsden High School offers students new ways to communicate their ideas, experiences and perceptions of the world through electronic technologies.

These technologies are an important means of understanding, constructing, appreciating and communicating social and cultural values of the past, present and imagining the future.

Filmmaking is a collaborative art form that involves the creative interaction of individuals using a range of artistic, technical and literacy skills.

The technical and critical study in this course involves the making and appreciation of film. It offers students the extensive knowledge, skills and appreciation required to pursue a career in film making as further study after their HSC.

PLEASE NOTE: FILM STUDIES IS A NON-ATAR COURSE

Who is this course for?

Those who seek the glory of the silver screen. The magic of tinseltown. Pressing your hands into the cement outside Hollywood’s Chinese Theatre. Alright, so that may be romanticising it a little, but there’s a reason why film has become one of the defining art forms of our generation, and created so many iconic images in pop culture.

The focus of film studies is broad, it will involve collaborative hands-on production, as well as cinematic theory. Hollywood will probably feature, but if the Transformers franchise is your idea of high art, then maybe you should think again about studying film, as you’ll be plunged into the depths of world cinema and the art of the auteurs.