Activities
Production
Transitioning from pre-production to production can be scary at first. However, if you have a strong pre-production process and a collaborative team, this can be the most rewarding and exciting part...
Activities
Pre-produduction
There is no way around it. While luck can be a good friend of the filmmaker, planning is insurance against when things go wrong. Plan for things to go wrong. They will. ...and that's not always a bad...
Assessments
List of Films Previously Used for Textual Analysis
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” — Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love (1963) This page gathers every film IB has prescribed for the Textual Analysis, plus the legacy titles...
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Italian Neorealism
Neo-realism leaned into the gritty life and struggle of the post-war Italian working class and stories of hardship, inequity and oppression with an uncompromising documentary style approach. Please bear...
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Film Movements
Film movements refer to groups of filmmakers who work within a specific time period and geographical region and share common aesthetic, thematic, and ideological approaches to filmmaking. These movements...
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Psychoanalytic Film Theory
Dr. Malcolm Crowe, The Sixth Sense On this page, we will provide some answers... about Psychoanalytic Film Theory Two radical new ways of seeing the world and understanding the human condition emerged...
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Masculine Film Theory
Batman (The Dark Knight) The field of film studies that grew out of Marxist film theory focused on looking at issues of inequality and therefore on the representation of various marginalized groups; women,...
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Feminist Film Theory
Laura Mulvey Please bear in mind that you must do your own research for all final assessments. This is just an introduction to help you familiarize yourself with this topic. This should not be considered...
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Race & Ethnicity Film Theory Free
Please bear in mind that you must do your own research for all final assessments. This is just an introduction to help you familiarize yourself with this topic. This should not be considered a reference...
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Postcolonial Film Theory
What can we learn about post-colonialism from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)? Probably quite a lot. Please bear in mind that you must do your own research for all final assessments. This...