IB Learner Profile

• Inquirers: Independence in learning will help film students to analyse plots of movies better than they did before. Naturally, people when watching movies blindly follow the story with no thinking involved – which can make it hard for certain, people to understand movies that use a lot of symbolism and metaphors. Therefore learning to inquire will widen the range of movies the student can watch and understand.

 

• Knowledgeable: To explore global ideas and learn a broader level of knowledge will help film students to follow along educational films or movies that focus on international significance that is necessary to the film – therefore understanding these ideas will help you to understand the film much better.

 

• Thinkers: To apply complex problems to one’s thinking can help initiate problem solving which is useful for film students when making assumptions to movies and engaging in the storyline.

 

• Communicators: To learn to express ideas and collaborate with others, a film student’s mind is filled with creativity and the ability to come up with original concepts and ideas for a story or a movie. The process of teamwork is important within film studies because the course involves group projects that require high levels of creativity.

 

• Principled: Learning the principles can create a fair environment for groups to work together on film projects so each individual student can express their ideas and be involved, rather than a leader controlling the project.

 

• Open-minded: Considering other team member’s ideas will help film students to work together smoothly and efficiently with minor complications within the project. Listening to someone’s original ideas, that differ to your original ideas, will help you grow as a person because it opens your mind to more possibilities and creativity that you may not have considered before.

 

• Caring: Showing compassion towards others will help to encourage people’s ideas and inspire their creative thinking to grow, and it will also help the person showing compassion, skills such as leadership within a group. This is helpful to a film student because better ideas will be used if you have respect and integrity within your team as members won’t be afraid to express them.

 

• Risk-takers: To explore new ideas and strategies, you are opening up more possibilities for new and more creative concepts and ideas for a film student’s project.

 

• Balanced: To have balance within your well-being, you can focus on the positive and achieve greater things as you are set on moving forward and developing academically as a person. This is important for film students because one who is balanced will feel more at ease with their work and truly feel as though they are benefiting from the course and will be able to feel pride within their creativity.

 

• Reflective: To understand your own personal strengths and limitations, you are able to know when you will be helpful and what you can contribute to your work and team. This is important for a film student because it will give order to ideas and won’t have them thrown around randomly and waste time if you know your limitations and what you can actually bring to the table. Plus your strengths will be specifically used within your work therefore your best is applied to everything you do during the course.