Hartismere School

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

Home Login

What is a frame narrative?

See also...

Three act structure

Catharsis explained

What is an Inciting incident?

Explore...

Fifty Plot Twist Ideas for Your Work-In-Progress!

Writing Short Films: 7 Rules Successful Filmmakers Follow

Automatic Movie Plot Generator

Top 10 Cinematographers of All Time

7 Editing Tips That Are Simple And Beautiful

Visual Storytelling 101

Swimmer (2012)-Lynne Ramsay PLUS Curfew!

Top 10 Opening Shots of All Time

How 50 Famous Female Characters Were Described in Their Screenplays

3 Brilliant Moments in the Visuals of Character

New...

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Hartismere Family Data Protection Policy and Privacy Notice

June 2026 Year 12 Mocks

Hartismere School & Sixth Form College

E-Safety

Increase in Fees for Instrumental/Vocal lessons from September 2026

Summer 2026 Examinations

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

Discover...

ZEN Film Studies GCE Screenplay Productions Narrative Music Short Film Phillip Van Carol Year 9 Options Health Safeguarding Storyboard Hartismere Year 12 Film4 Cinematography Plot Wellbeing Vimeo Editing

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...