As promised, I’ve sent you all an e mail with the IB Film Zoom meeting schedule in a word doc alongside a table which features your preferred specialist role (indicated by you in the survey)for your Collaborative (group production) Project and where you can also fill in your finalised research question and film choices for your Comparative Study.

We have two group sessions one on Wednesday at 3pm and one on Thursday at 1:30 pm. If neither of these is suitable I’ll try and organise another time for you next week but please try to make the effort to join if you can as some of you are struggling to understand the Comparative and/or anxious about completing video work and this is a space where I can hear and respond to your questions.

I’ll put the finished table up on the blog/send out to all class members before the meeting.  Therefore, I need you  fill in your research question and/or missing production role info into it and e mail this to me as soon as possible.

 You can also let me know which group you want to work in now that you can see who wants to do which roles – only one of these roles can be covered in a group so you may have to change your original ideas about who you wanted to work with. Note that the maximum group size for this project is 4 students and the minimum is 3 students.

Look out for the Zoom meeting joining instructions in your inbox – I’ll send these when I get your completed table sent back.

Here is a reminder of the other Comparative Study deadlines set for this term:

Email first draft of source list to teacher by 22/6/20 (including the details of the source films themselves, websites, books, articles etc used as citations – an example source list will be available on SharePoint)

Send first draft of 1500- 1800 word script by 29/6/20

Send final draft of 1500- 1800 word script (after written feedback is received) by 16/7/27

From now until the end of term, I’d like you to focus on completing your Comparative Study. The aim will be to submit a 1500- 1800 script (with source list) which can be turned into a video essay.

To help you with this, I’ve created an additional resource on SharePoint  which explains how the Comparative Study is structured. This set of slides contains links to exemplar student material which received high grades (7) in the 2019 series – these will be useful to watch as they really demonstrate how the final product should look and sound.

You should already have made some headway on Phase 1 (decide on films and research question) and Phase 2 (undertake primary and secondary research)  of this process and  should now be able to get to work on Phase 3 which is the actual writing of the script.

Before you do, can you please make sure that you have watched both films and that they are accessible to you in  a recordable format i.e. that you have them on DVD so that you can rip them onto Premiere as you will need to import clips from them and won’t be able to do this if you are watching on a streaming service like Netflix or Prime. If you can’t get a copy of your films on DVD then its unlikely that you’ll be able to complete the video essay and may need to choose different ones, possibly even amending your research question.

Revised deadlines for this project now look like this:

Post up final film choices and research question on the blog by 15/6/20 (its important that these go on the blog so that others in the group can see what you’re doing and avoid too much cross over of ideas/ repetition of material)

Email first draft of source list to teacher by 22/6/20 (including the details of the source films themselves, websites, books, articles etc used as citations – an example source list will be available on SharePoint)

Send first draft of 1500- 1800 word script by 29/6/20

Send final draft of 1500- 1800 word script (after written feedback is received) by 16/7/27

Good luck!

Please complete the survey by following this link before 5/6/20

This week, we will be looking at our final area of theoretical focus – Postcolonialism.

The teaching slides contain three tasks (definitions/ film identification and justification/application of theory) for you to complete independently.

Remember, that every slide contains hyperlinks to explanatory videos or film clips/trailers which should boost your understanding of the ideas presented.

The due date for this work is Tuesday the ^2nd June.

The first two tasks (definitions and justification) should go on the blog and the essay task should be e mailed to me as a word document with a word count and reference list of quotations/citations used.

This topic links to both the Textual Analysis and Comparative Study Assessments (worth 40% of the course) which require a lot of knowledge of theory and the ability to apply that theory to specific films independently.

This week in IB Film we’ll be looking at the Feminist Film Theory concept The Male Gaze.

Read through the slides and complete the three tasks then put your work up on the blog.

If you are thinking of incorporating ideas or concepts relating to the representation of women in film for your Comparative Study,   then you may want to undertake some additional reading on Feminist Theory here.

As we continue to develop our research questions and find resources for the Comparative Study, it will be useful to consider aspects of Genre Theory as you may wish to integrate these ideas into your video essays.

You’ll need to have chosen your two films for your Comparative Study in order to complete the tasks featured on these slides- so if you haven’t already done so you MUST prioritise this!

You should complete these  5 short  tasks on Genre and send them via e mail to me in one complete word document by  next Tuesday (12/5/20)