Hartismere School

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

Home Login

Understanding Film Theory: An Essential Guide

Explore...

What is an Inciting incident?

Truffaut on the Auteur Theory

The importance of scene transitions

Catharsis explained

Captain Fantastic editing

How To Write Plot Twists

Opening Shots Tell Us Everything

House of Flying Daggers: A Reappraisal

The Power of Music in Film

Pan's Labyrinth - The Pale Man article

New...

Paddington The Musical Savoy Theatre, London Thursday, 15 April 2027. Years 7 & 8

Early Help and Family Help

Stranger Things, The First Shadow. The Phoenix Theatre, Friday 11th September.

Harry Potter (One Part) Palace Theatre, London Wednesday, 13 January 2027.

Admissions and Application Forms :: Main School and Sixth Form

Local Governing Body Information

Operation Mincemeat. Fortune Theatre, London Tuesday, 22 September. Years 9 to 13

School Policies

Discover...

ZEN Film Studies GCE Cinematography Sound Editing Auteur Bullying Do The Right Thing Buster Keaton Examinations Year 13 Trustees Year 12 Policy Sound Engineering No Film School NEA GCSE Drama Theatre Cinema Year 9 Short Film

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...