An Introduction To Film Appreciation

A four-week introduction to understanding and appreciating film
4 Tuesday evenings, Oct 7, 14, 21 & Nov 4 *
£70

Join Depot regular, Julian Bowker as he explores the vocabulary of film; helping you to develop your own general knowledge, understanding and appreciation of film. Covering film theory, film history and film practice the course will be a mix of lecture, using a range of examples and film extracts, and group-based activities, with lots of opportunity to ask questions and discuss films.

Course breakdown:
Representation - How filmmakers present their ideas through the language of film, sound and
vision; fictional or factual.
Genre - How do we identify, categorise and classify the range of film forms available to us today? How have genres evolved? How far is genre a useful concept?
Narrative - how are stories told using narrative film form? How are myths and fairy stories used in film? What are the typical structures and patterns of film form?
Audiences - What difference do audiences make to what gets made? How does our understanding of film depend on cultural context? How do films meanings change over time?

*As there is no scheduled studio session on Tuesday 28 Oct we're offering the option to watch a film together at Depot that evening instead.

Julian Bowker.
As well as running many of our popular film theory courses here at Depot, Julian has been teaching film and film theory for over 30 years. For a time he was also an Education Officer at the BFI (British Film Institute) where his role was to encourage an ongoing appreciation of film and help develop media literacy across audiences.