Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

Film Language

Explore...

Mastering the Movie Colour Palette: del Toro

Editing Captain Fantastic

Superimposition in film

Is Vertigo the best or worst movie ever?

Fallen Angels - Explained

Pan's Labyrinth - The Pale Man article

Jonathan Glazer on Under the Skin

The importance of scene transitions

Buster Keaton - Silent Film Era

Film Editing: techniques and examples

New...

Hartismere Family Data Protection Policy and Privacy Notice

Increase in Fees for Instrumental/Vocal lessons from September 2026

Hartismere School & Sixth Form College

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

E-Safety

June 2026 Year 12 Mocks

Print Exhibition at Wingfield Barns

Summer 2026 Examinations

Discover...

Coursework Private Study Examinations GCE ZEN Media Studies Film Studies Productions SOTD A Level Test Clubs And Activities Pan's Labyrinth Be Creative School Nurse Health Art Exhibition exhibition Modernism Under The Skin Homework Silent Film House Of Flying Daggers

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...