Attack the Block: aesthetics — Eduqas GCSE Film Studies C670
Eduqas GCSE Film Studies · C670
Attack the Block: aesthetics
Attack the Block
What you need to know
A science fiction look in a realist setting: lighting, colour and the tower block.
Influences on its style: 1980s Amblin films, John Carpenter and action films.
Contrasts in style: bright, cared-for flats against the dark exterior, and the ending.
Aesthetic effects in single sequences, and how typical one scene is of the whole film.
A worked answer to a practice Section C question on the film's style, part by part: the short parts that ask you to identify and explain, and the 15-mark final part on a key sequence.
How to answer each part: the marks, and what the short identify and explain parts need as well as the extended answer, since naming a technique instead of a specific example from the film loses marks there. Practice questions to try, each headed 'Practice question' with its marks.
Quote only short lines of dialogue you're sure of, a few words at a time, and base every point on what happens in the finished film.
