Assessments
Textual Analysis
The textual Analysis is a fundamental aspect of the IB Film Course, as it allows students to develop their critical thinking, analytical, and interpretive skills by engaging with a variety of film texts. ...
Assessment
Textual Analysis
The textual Analysis will allow you to demonstrate your critical thinking, analytical, and interpretive skills by engaging in depth with a film text. *Note: The Necronomicon (pictured left) is a text...
Assessments
Film Portfolio
The film portfolio allows students to demonstrate their learning, skills, and creativity in a variety of film production roles while embracing challenges, applying their analytical work, and practicing...
Assessment
Film Portfolio
The film portfolio allows you to demonstrate their learning, skills, and creativity in a variety of film production roles while embracing challenges, applying your analytical work, and practicing your...
Syllabi & Lessons
Student Film Critique
This approach focuses on thinking of the class as an inclusive student-centered... film studio. For smaller film exercises (that sometimes make it into the portfolio) a single critique at the conclusion...
Syllabi & Lessons
Mini Lesson: Types of Sound
Sound Randomizer↵ This lesson will help in the analysis of how sound creates meaning in film, as well as deepen the students' engagement in how they consider including sounds in their own films. Students...
Syllabi & Lessons
Lesson: Dialogue Two - Text, Subtext, Context
This lesson focuses on text, subtext, and context - and how the three of them can be used together to create meaning. Note: This lesson was designed to be the second part of Dialogue One - Formalism &...
Activities
Analysis: Pan's Labyrinth
In Pan's Labyrinth, director Guillermo Del Toro creates meaning on many different levels. Let's examine how and why he decided to make a supernatural fairy tale set during the Spanish Civil War and think...
Syllabi & Lessons
Lesson: Dialogue One - Formalism & Realism
This lesson introduces students to two kinds of dialogue; formalist, and realist. Students will learn that dialogue, like other areas of film language, can have layers of meaning beyond its functional...
Syllabi & Lessons
Lesson: Short Story Arc
Maya Angelou This lesson helps students understand and develop a one-act story arc. . This lesson includes references to the short animation Feast, which is used as a part of our match-cut lesson. If...