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IB DP Category 1&2
Paris, France, 21 - 23 February 2025
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Film
IB DP Category 1&2
Online (IB Approved), 17 - 19 October 2025
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Welcome, teachers and students, to the ThinkIB course guide for IB Film. Here we hope you'll find some good advice and guidance about what to do with this time that we have. What is IB Film? Here's your...
Projects
Crew Research: Voice and Choice
Here you will have some required viewing as well as some selections to make on your own. One of the many benefits of the collaborative work that we do in IB Film is that as students change roles between...
Film Roles
Transitions
-Philip Seymour Hoffman While most artists want their work to be scene, one of the ironic aspects of editing is that sometimes the best editors are the ones whose work is the least noticeable. In most...
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Resources
Many of these resources are connected to other units, pages, and lessons, but are also compiled here for your convenience. Textual Analysis Workbook: This workbook will help your students structure and...
Lessons
Activity: Unpacking Rubrics
Helping students identify the pattern in one rubric can help them understand what is expected from them in each IB Assessment. If you take a look at some of the individual markband criteria pages under...
Film Roles
Match Cuts
A match cut is a seamless transition between two shots that creates a visual or conceptual connection, often linking completely different scenes or elements. Be sure to check out our match cut lesson...
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Site Organization
The goal of this page is to explain the key sections of the site. Each section is noted by one of the main headings in the menu that runs across the top of the page. For each section, there is an explanation...
Film Roles
Intercutting, Crosscutting & Parallel Editing
While there is a lot of overlap and legitimate difference of definitions of these terms, it is helpful to identify how these three editing processes allow us as editors to move through time and space...
Reading Film
Film Genres (Genre Theory)
Teachers should understand that although Genre Theory would generally fall under the umbrella of Film Theory, for the purpose of the comparative study, it is parsed out separately as a different type...
Lessons
Lesson: Film Theory
Students will learn that film theories are lenses through which we can examine and analyze how meaning is both conciously and unconciously created in film, regarding both cultural contexts and artistic...