Brooks College Prep Academy High School – Film Studies (DUAL CREDIT)

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

In this course, students will develop critical and analytical skills needed to be a cinema practitioner. They will be introduced to the basics of film analysis, cinematic formal elements, genre and narrative structure that are aligned to the relevant strands of CCSS. Students will develop the skills to recognize, analyze, describe and enjoy film as an art and entertainment form. To understand how films are constructed to make meaning and engage audiences, students will gain foundational knowledge in the formal elements (narrative, mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound and editing) that make up the film, as well as some fundamental principles of analysis, genre, style, performance and storytelling. Students will enter the course with a story idea and create a screenplay based on that idea as their culminating performance assessment.