OCR A Level Mise-en-Scene Lighting

A complete A-Level Media Studies lesson introducing mise-en-scène lighting, key terminology and exam-style analysis.

This fully editable PowerPoint (.pptx) lesson focuses on lighting as part of mise-en-scène, helping students understand how directors use lighting to create meaning, mood, genre and audience response.

The lesson introduces and develops key lighting terminology including low-key lighting, high-key lighting, natural lighting, directional lighting and silhouette. Students recap wider media language terminology before applying lighting analysis to an extract from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, focusing on how lighting constructs tension, fear, danger, hope, symbolism and conflict.

The lesson includes retrieval practice, key definitions, image-based terminology tasks, scaffolded analysis tables, model answers, sentence starters, an exam-style response task and peer/self-assessment criteria. It is ideal as part of an opening Media Language / Media Basics sequence for OCR A-Level Media Studies students.

This lesson covers:

OCR A-Level Media Studies
Media language
Mise-en-scène
CLAMPS
Lighting
Low-key lighting
High-key lighting
Natural lighting
Directional lighting
Silhouette
Shadows and contrast
Connotation and meaning
Genre
Audience response
Action/adventure and fantasy genre
Extract analysis
Exam-style written response
PEE paragraph structure

What is included:

Fully editable PowerPoint (.pptx) lesson
Do Now knowledge retrieval task
Teacher feedback/model answer slide
Recap of CLAMPS and mise-en-scène
Lesson objectives
Lighting terminology image-matching task
Feedback slide identifying lighting types
Mini plenary to assess lighting knowledge
Key definitions for lighting terminology
Printable lighting terminology table
Extract analysis task using Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Scaffolded lighting analysis tables
Word banks for lighting effects and connotations
Teacher feedback slides with completed examples
Exam-style question on lighting and meaning
Sentence starters for analytical writing
Full model response
Peer/self-assessment criteria
WWW and EBI reflection task
Key word plenary on wider media terms

This resource can be used as:

A full A-Level lesson on mise-en-scène lighting
A media language introduction lesson
A Media Basics lesson for Year 12
A lesson on connotation and visual meaning
A film extract analysis lesson
A GCSE-to-A-Level transition lesson
A revision lesson on lighting terminology
A scaffolded exam-style writing lesson

This resource is provided as a fully editable PowerPoint (.pptx) file.

This resource is independently created and is not endorsed by OCR.