Moving Image Arts
Teaching Staff:
Sperrin College is the main provider of Moving Image Arts in the Magherafelt Learning Partnership and has enjoyed great success, winning 4 Foyle Film Festival awards in recent years. Delivered in the Art & Design Department, the subject is well resourced with a dedicated Mac Suite, lighting room, assortment of DSLR Cameras and access to industry standard software.
It can be said that no art or communication form is as influential, powerful or prolific in the modern era as the art of Moving Images. From film and television programming to advertising and web streaming, it’s a medium that resonates with people because its combination of all other art forms (performance, visual, physical, musical, lyrical, textual) most closely approximates the limitless creativity of our own dreams.
"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls". Ingmar Bergman, Director
Our students enjoy the opportunity of studying the theory behind film and putting this knowledge into practice by creating their own short films - whether live action or animation.
Moving Image Arts at A Level consists of 4 units:
AS Level (40% of A Level)
AS 1: Realist and Formalist Techniques and the Classical Hollywood Style – Foundation Portfolio
AS 2: Critical Response
A2 Level (60% of A Level)
A2 1: Creative Production and Research – Advanced Portfolio
A2 2: Advanced Critical Response
- Mr J Alexander BDes (Hons) PGCE
- Ms J McCarter BA (Hons) PGCE
Sperrin College is the main provider of Moving Image Arts in the Magherafelt Learning Partnership and has enjoyed great success, winning 4 Foyle Film Festival awards in recent years. Delivered in the Art & Design Department, the subject is well resourced with a dedicated Mac Suite, lighting room, assortment of DSLR Cameras and access to industry standard software.
It can be said that no art or communication form is as influential, powerful or prolific in the modern era as the art of Moving Images. From film and television programming to advertising and web streaming, it’s a medium that resonates with people because its combination of all other art forms (performance, visual, physical, musical, lyrical, textual) most closely approximates the limitless creativity of our own dreams.
"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls". Ingmar Bergman, Director
Our students enjoy the opportunity of studying the theory behind film and putting this knowledge into practice by creating their own short films - whether live action or animation.
Moving Image Arts at A Level consists of 4 units:
AS Level (40% of A Level)
AS 1: Realist and Formalist Techniques and the Classical Hollywood Style – Foundation Portfolio
AS 2: Critical Response
A2 Level (60% of A Level)
A2 1: Creative Production and Research – Advanced Portfolio
A2 2: Advanced Critical Response
Useful Links:
CCEA Moving Image Arts Microsite - Find past papers, fact files and information about the specification here.
http://ccea.org.uk/movingimagearts/
Columbia University Film Glossary - great for film language
filmglossary.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/term/
BBC Bitesize Moving Image Arts - Pitched at GCSE Students, but still a great resource for understanding MIA basics. One of our past students was involved in producing the animations.
https://www.bbc.com/education/subjects/z9c6y4j
Crash Course in Film History - A fantastic resource which covers film history and theory in phenomenal detail and at incredible speed. Possibly information overload, but there are nuggets of gold here. Watch out for areas listed in the MIA course content.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN-Bd-H_TGq72CN50Fpv_JX
Empire Magazine Film 101 - a glossary of various shot types.
http://www.empireonline.com/…/film-studies-101-camera-shot…/
CCEA Moving Image Arts Microsite - Find past papers, fact files and information about the specification here.
http://ccea.org.uk/movingimagearts/
Columbia University Film Glossary - great for film language
filmglossary.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/term/
BBC Bitesize Moving Image Arts - Pitched at GCSE Students, but still a great resource for understanding MIA basics. One of our past students was involved in producing the animations.
https://www.bbc.com/education/subjects/z9c6y4j
Crash Course in Film History - A fantastic resource which covers film history and theory in phenomenal detail and at incredible speed. Possibly information overload, but there are nuggets of gold here. Watch out for areas listed in the MIA course content.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN-Bd-H_TGq72CN50Fpv_JX
Empire Magazine Film 101 - a glossary of various shot types.
http://www.empireonline.com/…/film-studies-101-camera-shot…/
