1. SUPERHERO
movies
ARE YOU READY FOR THE EXAM?

2. What will the exam cover?!!!

3. QUESTION ONE
• will be about Film Language and how it communicates
to the audience
• Make sure you know your film terminology for all the
MICRO FEATURES
• CINEMATOGRAPHY
• SOUND
• EDITING
• MISE-EN-SCENE
• THEY CAN ALSO ASK YOU ABOUT
SPECIAL EFFECTS

4. ELEMENTs OF MISE-EN-SCENE
• You need to able to comment on how the elements of
mise-en-scene communicate something to the
audience
Objects/Props
Setting/Location
Lighting
Shadow
Colour
Characters position within the frame
Facial expressions and body language
Costume, hair and make-up

5. sound
• YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO USE THE RIGHT
TERMINOLOGY,
• You need to be able to recognise and describe
diegetic and non-diegetic sound and explain
the effect they have

6. Sound terminology
• Diegetic sound
• sound that comes from the
narrative world
• Non-diegetic sound
• sound that is external to the
narrative world
• Sound bridge
• sound that carries over into
another scene
• Voice Over
• a narrative voice
• Parallel sound
• sound that matches the
action
• Contrapuntal sound
• sound that doesn’t match
the action
• Dialogue
• spoken script (think about
tone and pace)
• Pleonastic sound
• exaggerated sound

7. Describing sound
• Ambient
• Eerie
• Orchestral
• Instrumental
• Pace
What other words can you
think of to describe sound?

8. QUESTION TWO & THREE
• will usually be about TYPICAL FEATURES this
means codes and conventions or characters. You
will need to apply this knowledge to the film clip
AND another Superhero Film of your choice
• MAKE SURE YOU COMPLETE PGS17-24 IN YOUR
REVISION BOOKLET
• Question 3 & 4 can also be about the film
industry – for example how films are marketed
and publicised

9. QUESTION four
• will be a creative question you will most
probably have to use your imaginations and or
design something. So it will be useful to have
colouring pencils.
• You could be asked to come up with an idea
for a brand new Superhero film.