IB FILM STUDIES

FIRST HALF TERM:

• Introduce Course
• Basic critical terminology
• Experience of filmmaking – try one role
• Brief Film History Course
• Textual Analysis Assessment Week 7

Ind Study Practical Presentation Misc Tasks Texts

Week1 – 24 Aug Film History – Continuity Choose own Intro Course Write blog Various – focus
Early Film Editing scene entry on 'Birth of a
DW Griffith Nation'
Storyboard
simple scene
Week 2 – 31 Aug Film History – Montage Analysis of Still image Battleship
Russian Editing Odessa Steps narrative task Potemkin
Formalism sequence
Week 3 – 7 Sep Film History – Chiaroscuro Analysis of Written Nosferatu / M /
German Lighting Nosferatu / M analysis of Metropolis
Expressionism extract extract
Week 4 – 14 Sep Film History – Film dialogue The Bicycle
Italian Neo- scene thieves
realism
Week 5 – 21 Sep Film History – Chiaroscuro Psychoanalytic Film Dialogue Double
American Film revisited / al / Freudian scene Indemnity
Noir Camera angles theory
Week 6 – 28 Sep Film History – The 'Sin City' Auteur / Genre Spoken Sin City
Film Noir / Neo Effect theory presentation on Paris Je Taime –
Noir extract Elijah Woods
Week 7 – 5 Oct Film History – Guerilla Filming Analysis of Textual Breathless /
French New Breathless / Analysis Exam 400 Blows
Wave The 400 Blows
Week 8 – 12 Oct Film History – Expressionistic Begin planning Un Chien
Spanish technique chase Andalou
Surrealism sequence