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Finish Line! Free
Chariots of Fire This quote and image posted without context. Indeed, does it need any? Hopefully the gif above captures a little bit about how you are feeling right now! The last thing you might care...
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TA Exemplars
This section will be updated periodically with more examples. There are a few ways that looking at exemplars may be helpful to you. The first is to familiarize yourself with the format as you read through...
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Comparative Study: Double Check
Check this first. After all that hard work, you don't want to lose points (or worse!) by making sure you're meeting all of the criteria. As my own students round the corner on turning in their comparative...
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Textual Analysis: Visualizing the Connections
Would you be shocked if we told you it wasn't? If you're finding it difficult to connect a film’s cultural context with its cinematic elements, try looking for a bridge: it often takes the form of a...
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Comparative Study: Script Outline
While there is not a correct way to do this, we can suggest a path that will help make sure that you are hitting all the objectives of criteria A and B. On the Black Slate make sure you clearly include...
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Transitions
Philip Seymour Hoffman Editing helps shape how we understand both when and where things are happening in a film. Some edits are based on time; moving from moment to moment, jumping forward, or even us...
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Sound Designer
David Lynch The sound designer is perhaps the most misunderstood, most under-appreciated, and most under-utilized of the film roles in IB Film. This may be because many people think of film as a visual...
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AI and Non-Original Materials Free
This is Bob. Bob is an AI generated character. You might love Bob, you might hate Bob, you might not really get what the big deal is about Bob… but Bob is here and he is not leaving. Schools are buzzing...
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Film Sound: Quality
C'mon, that was pretty funny. This is not about the ‘value’ of a sound, in other words, ‘quality’ in this case doesn't infer that one sound is ‘better’ or ‘worse’ than another, but rather that quality...
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Textual Analysis: Criteria A
Note: This page refers to the rubric as written in the original 2019 guide. The updated 2023 version is nearly identical in outcome but the language is somewhat streamlined. This will be updated shortly. ...