Global English language film
50 revision questions with answers for C2A Global English language film in Eduqas GCSE Film Studies (spec C670QS). Practise with flashcards, a topic quiz, a random quiz across the course, 5 crosswords, or read every question and answer below. Not official Eduqas material.
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Question 1 · Spec p11
What is narrative in film?
Answer:The way a film organises and communicates events, characters and their relationships to create a story and guide spectator understanding.Question 2 · Spec p11
How do linear and non-linear narratives differ?
Answer:A linear narrative presents events mainly chronologically. A non-linear narrative changes their order, for example by using flashbacks.Question 3 · Spec p11
How can plot order affect spectator understanding?
Answer:Presenting an event later can delay an explanation; showing it earlier can create anticipation. Plot order controls when we understand causes and consequences.Question 4 · Spec p11
What role does the screenplay play in narrative?
Answer:It organises scenes, action and dialogue into a plot. Filmmaking then realises those ideas through images, sound, editing and performance.Question 5 · Spec p11
What does cause and effect mean in narrative?
Answer:One event or decision leads to another. Explaining these connections shows how the narrative develops rather than simply listing events.Question 6 · Spec p11
What is narrative ellipsis?
Answer:The omission of a period of story time. Spectators infer what happened between the events the film actually shows.Question 7 · Spec p11
What does withholding information achieve?
Answer:It delays knowledge about events, motives or outcomes, encouraging curiosity, uncertainty or suspense and giving spectators reasons to continue watching.Question 8 · Spec p11
How can releasing information change a narrative?
Answer:A revelation can explain earlier events, alter our view of a character or redirect expectations about what will happen next.Question 9 · Spec p11
What is a three-act structure?
Answer:A narrative pattern of setup, development or confrontation, and resolution. Turning points connect the stages and alter the protagonist's situation.Question 10 · Spec p11
What is an inciting incident?
Answer:An event that initiates the central conflict or gives the protagonist a new problem or goal, setting the main narrative in motion.Question 11 · Spec p11
What is a plot point?
Answer:A significant event or decision that redirects the action. Explain how it changes the situation, stakes or goal of the narrative.Question 12 · Spec p11
What is a narrative climax?
Answer:A decisive high point where the central conflict or pressure comes to a head, often determining the outcome for the protagonist.Question 13 · Spec p11
How can an ending provide partial resolution?
Answer:It may settle a central conflict while leaving other questions unanswered. This can combine emotional satisfaction with uncertainty about the characters' future.Question 14 · Spec p11
What is a protagonist's narrative function?
Answer:The protagonist is the main character around whose goals, experiences or conflicts the narrative is organised. They need not be morally faultless.Question 15 · Spec p11
Must an antagonist be an evil character?
Answer:No. An antagonist opposes the protagonist's aims. Conflict may also come from institutions, circumstances, relationships or the protagonist's own fears.Question 16 · Spec p11
What does character development mean?
Answer:Changes in a character's attitudes, choices or relationships across the narrative. Compare specific early and later moments to explain that development.Question 17 · Spec p11
How do themes and issues arise from narrative?
Answer:Repeated conflicts, decisions and outcomes develop broader ideas, such as belonging, inequality or grief. Explain how events give those ideas significance.Question 18 · Spec pp9,11
How can setting shape narrative development?
Answer:A setting can create obstacles, limit movement, establish social pressures or make a goal possible. Its significance goes beyond providing a backdrop.Question 19 · Spec pp9,11
How can editing control narrative information?
Answer:Cuts can connect causes and effects, move between times, omit events or reveal parallel action, shaping what spectators know and expect.Question 20 · Spec p11; 2025 mark scheme
What makes a narrative-analysis answer convincing?
Answer:Identify a precise event or technique, explain its role in narrative development and connect it to meaning or spectator response.Question 21 · Spec pp11,18 · Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
How do quiz questions structure Slumdog Millionaire?
Answer:They prompt episodes from Jamal's past, linking apparently extraordinary knowledge to personal experience and gradually explaining his success.Question 22 · Spec pp11,18 · Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Why are flashbacks important in Slumdog Millionaire?
Answer:They reveal how Jamal learned particular answers and build his relationships, turning interrogation into an explanation of his life.Question 23 · Spec pp11,18 · Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
What drives Jamal beyond money in Slumdog Millionaire?
Answer:His desire to find Latika gives the quiz success a romantic purpose, connecting the public competition with a personal goal.Question 24 · Spec pp9,11,18 · Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
How do settings contrast in Slumdog Millionaire?
Answer:The polished quiz studio contrasts with the slums and police station, making differences in power, wealth and experience visible.Question 25 · Spec pp11,18 · Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
How does Slumdog Millionaire build towards its climax?
Answer:The final quiz question raises the financial stakes while uncertainty about Latika keeps the romantic outcome unresolved.Question 26 · Spec pp10-11,18 · Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Which social issues shape Slumdog Millionaire's narrative?
Answer:Poverty, inequality and exploitation shape the obstacles faced by Jamal, Salim and Latika, connecting personal choices to their social environment.Question 27 · Spec pp11,18 · District 9 (2009)
What event transforms Wikus's situation in District 9?
Answer:Exposure to alien fluid begins his physical transformation, turning an official involved in eviction into someone pursued and exploited.Question 28 · Spec pp9,11,18 · District 9 (2009)
How does District 9's opening release narrative information?
Answer:Interviews and news-style footage establish the aliens' arrival and segregation while raising questions about what later happens to Wikus.Question 29 · Spec pp11,18 · District 9 (2009)
How does Wikus develop in District 9?
Answer:He moves from enforcing human control towards dependence on and cooperation with Christopher, complicating the division between human and alien.Question 30 · Spec pp10-11,18 · District 9 (2009)
How does District 9's setting connect narrative and context?
Answer:Forced alien segregation in Johannesburg recalls apartheid, making eviction and discrimination central to the conflict rather than incidental background.Question 31 · Spec pp11,18 · District 9 (2009)
How does District 9 withhold a final resolution?
Answer:Christopher's promised return leaves uncertainty about whether Wikus can become human again, extending the narrative beyond the ending.Question 32 · Spec pp9,11,18 · District 9 (2009)
How does District 9 change our response to Christopher?
Answer:Scenes focused on him and his son reveal motives and vulnerability, encouraging sympathy beyond the hostile labels applied by humans.Question 33 · Spec pp11,18 · The Babadook (2014)
What central relationship structures The Babadook?
Answer:The troubled bond between Amelia and Samuel. Their conflict connects supernatural danger with bereavement, exhaustion and the pressures of motherhood.Question 34 · Spec pp9,11,18 · The Babadook (2014)
How does the book develop The Babadook's narrative?
Answer:Its disturbing images introduce and anticipate danger. Its return after destruction makes the threat appear persistent and difficult to escape.Question 35 · Spec pp11,18 · The Babadook (2014)
How does The Babadook withhold certainty?
Answer:Events are closely tied to Amelia's distressed perspective, allowing uncertainty about the boundary between supernatural threat and psychological experience.Question 36 · Spec pp9,11,18 · The Babadook (2014)
How can reaction shots create suspense in The Babadook?
Answer:Showing a frightened reaction before its cause delays information, leaving spectators to imagine the threat before it is revealed.Question 37 · Spec pp11,18 · The Babadook (2014)
How does The Babadook's ending alter horror expectations?
Answer:The creature is contained and cared for rather than simply destroyed, suggesting that grief must be managed rather than erased.Question 38 · Spec pp11,18 · The Babadook (2014)
How does Samuel's narrative role change in The Babadook?
Answer:He initially seems a source of disruption, but later protects Amelia, complicating the assumption that his behaviour is the main danger.Question 39 · Spec pp11,18 · The Breadwinner (2017)
What disruption drives The Breadwinner?
Answer:Parvana's father's arrest leaves the family struggling to survive under restrictions on women, prompting her to seek work disguised as a boy.Question 40 · Spec pp11,18 · The Breadwinner (2017)
How does Parvana's disguise create cause and effect in The Breadwinner?
Answer:Passing as a boy enables access to work and public spaces, allowing her to support the family and pursue her father.Question 41 · Spec pp11,18 · The Breadwinner (2017)
What is the function of stories within The Breadwinner?
Answer:The embedded tales parallel Parvana's struggle and connect personal hardship with memory, courage and the power of storytelling.Question 42 · Spec pp9,11,18 · The Breadwinner (2017)
How does animation distinguish The Breadwinner's story worlds?
Answer:The embedded tales use a contrasting illustrative style, helping spectators recognise the shift from Parvana's everyday experience to imaginative storytelling.Question 43 · Spec pp10-11,18 · The Breadwinner (2017)
How does context create obstacles in The Breadwinner?
Answer:Taliban restrictions on women's movement and work make an ordinary survival task dangerous, connecting family conflict with political control.Question 44 · Spec pp11,18 · The Breadwinner (2017)
Why is The Breadwinner's ending only partly resolved?
Answer:Parvana rescues her father, but war and displacement leave the family's future uncertain. Personal progress does not remove the wider danger.Question 45 · Spec pp11,18 · Jojo Rabbit (2019)
What belief shapes Jojo at the beginning of Jojo Rabbit?
Answer:His enthusiasm for Nazism and his imaginary Hitler shape his expectations, establishing prejudices that the narrative will challenge.Question 46 · Spec pp11,18 · Jojo Rabbit (2019)
How does meeting Elsa redirect Jojo Rabbit's narrative?
Answer:A real relationship challenges Jojo's imagined ideas about Jewish people, creating conflict between learned prejudice and developing empathy.Question 47 · Spec pp9,11,18 · Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Why are Rosie's shoes a significant motif in Jojo Rabbit?
Answer:Earlier attention to shoes and laces prepares the later recognition of her death, turning a familiar detail into an emotional revelation.Question 48 · Spec pp11,18 · Jojo Rabbit (2019)
How does withholding shape Rosie's role in Jojo Rabbit?
Answer:Her resistance activity is not fully explained at first, so later revelations change Jojo's and the spectator's understanding of her actions.Question 49 · Spec pp11,18 · Jojo Rabbit (2019)
What does Jojo's rejection of imaginary Hitler signify?
Answer:It marks a decisive rejection of his earlier beliefs, making internal character change visible through an action within the narrative.Question 50 · Spec pp11,18 · Jojo Rabbit (2019)
How does dancing resolve a theme in Jojo Rabbit?
Answer:Jojo and Elsa's final dance suggests connection and freedom after fear and indoctrination, offering hope without undoing the losses already suffered.