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...

Mastering Composition + Cinematography with Will Smith

The importance of scene transitions

The Magic of Making Sound | That's Amazing

How To Do A Plot Twist

5 Brilliant Moments in Patterns

Superimposition in film

How Spike Lee directs a Film

The Origins of Auteur Theory

What is Auteur Theory? | Deep Focus

ED LACHMAN talks the cinematography of CAROL: Interview Exclusive

New...

Summer 2026 Examinations

Impact Evaluation of LAMDA Exams in Schools

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

LAMDA Performance and public speaking exams 2026-2027

Open afternoons

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

Change of Head of Year 7

June 2026 Year 12 Mocks

Discover...

ZEN Film Studies GCE Cinematography Sound Editing Auteur Captain Fantastic Theory Do The Right Thing NEA Storyboard A Level Year 9 Options Evening Year 5 Head Of Year Visit Trips Aesthetics Afternoon Phillip Van 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...