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...

How to End a Movie

Composition and Framing in Film

Superimposition in film

How To Write Plot Twists

The Cinematography of "Carol" (2015) – Evan E. Richards

The importance of scene transitions

Zhang Yimou - Visionary of China's past

Top 10 Cinematographers of All Time

The Origins of Auteur Theory

The First and Final Frames of Famous Films Can Teach Us a Lot about Good Filmmaking

New...

Hartismere Technical Theatre

SENDCo

Autumn Term 2 Sports Clubs

Vacancies

Parents Evening :: Year 10

Parents Evening :: Year 12

December 2026 Mock Examinations

In the news: PHP Vulnerability

Discover...

ZEN Film Studies GCE Cinematography Sound Editing Auteur Storyboard Aesthetics Vertigo Year 13 Buster Keaton Evening Working Vulnerability Design Productions Screenplay Week Events Pan's Labyrinth Calendar Term Dates

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...