Submarine: aesthetics — Eduqas GCSE Film Studies C670
Eduqas GCSE Film Studies · C670
Submarine: aesthetics
Submarine
What you need to know
The film's distinctive, stylised look: colour symbolism, framing, chapter cards, and super 8 footage.
Influences on its style: the French New Wave, Woody Allen and American indie film, and Ayoade's own signature.
Aesthetic effects in single sequences, and how typical one scene is of the whole film.
Where the style draws attention to itself more than the story, and why that suits Oliver's point of view.
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.
