Moving Image Arts  

Moving Image Arts is an ideal choice for students wishing to pursue a career in the creative industries. This unique subject develops critical and creative abilities in all of the key creative areas of film production, including writing, directing, editing, producing and production design. While all students’ creative work is grounded in film analysis from a range of disciplines and contexts, the subject also fosters and encourages independence, originality and experimentation.  The subject is taught in small classes of 15 maximum in the Mac Suite. 

Department: Mr K Beare (HOD) | Miss R Drysdale 

Exam Board: CCEA 

GCSE Moving Image Arts 

Students develop a broad critical understanding of film language, narrative, representation and audience in both theory and practice. They investigate films from a variety of genres and contexts, demonstrating the ability to analyse and evaluate creative purpose. They also experiment with a range of film-making techniques, including animation, and create their own complete moving image portfolios. Students acquire a range of skills on this course such as leading and working with teams and managing resources and creative processes independently, with initiative and creative enterprise. 

This qualification builds on the knowledge, understanding and skills developed through the Area of Learning The Arts and the Cross-Curricular Skill of Using ICT. 

This specification is a linear qualification: students take all the assessment at the end of the course. 

The specification has three components: 

• Component 1: Critical Understanding of Creative and Technical Moving Image Production 

• Component 2: Acquisition of Skills in Moving Image Production 

• Component 3: Planning and Making a Moving Image Product. 

GCE Moving Image Arts 

Students develop an advanced critical and applied understanding of film language, exploring both formalist and realist styles and techniques taken from a variety of world film movements, practitioners and contexts.  This specification is available at two levels: AS and A2. 

In the AS units, students learn about the Classical Hollywood Style, Realism and Formalism. 

Students who continue to A2 are encouraged to further experiment and explore their ideas as creative filmmakers. 

The specification has four units: 

• Unit AS 1: Realist and Formalist Techniques and the Classical Hollywood Style: Foundation Portfolio 

• Unit AS 2: Critical Response 

• Unit A2 1: Creative Production and Research: Advanced Portfolio 

• Unit A2 2: Advanced Critical Response. 

Extra-Curricular Activities 

We arrange a range of extra-curricular trips. Each year we attend MIA Showcase of the best of Northern Ireland MIA films.  

Cinemagic workshops 

We engage with Cinemagic to bring in facilitators to run workshops with animators and directors  both in school and as part of the Cinemagic programme. 

In the past we have run a SpFX  workshop where students were taught to make realistic wounds and make up; costume workshops and broadcasting workshops. 

An after school club is run on Monday afternoon for all MIA students.