Film Y12 Ht1

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

Week1 – 24 Aug

Ind Study

Practical

Presentation Misc

Tasks

Texts

Film History – Early Film DW Griffith

Continuity Editing

Choose own scene

Write blog entry

Various – focus on 'Birth of a Nation'

Week 2 – 31 Aug Film History – Russian Formalism Week 3 – 7 Sep

Film History – German Expressionism

Intro Course

Storyboard simple scene Montage Editing

Analysis of Odessa Steps sequence

Still image narrative task

Battleship Potemkin

Chiaroscuro Lighting

Analysis of Nosferatu / M extract

Written analysis of extract

Nosferatu / M / Metropolis

Film dialogue scene

The Bicycle thieves Double Indemnity

Week 4 – 14 Sep Film History – Italian Neorealism Week 5 – 21 Sep Film History – American Film Noir

Chiaroscuro revisited / Camera angles

Psychoanalytic al / Freudian theory

Film Dialogue scene

Week 6 – 28 Sep Film History – Film Noir / Neo Noir

The 'Sin City' Effect

Auteur / Genre theory

Spoken Sin City presentation on Paris Je Taime – extract Elijah Woods

Week 7 – 5 Oct

Film History – French New Wave

Guerilla Filming Analysis of Breathless / The 400 Blows

Textual Analysis Exam

Breathless / 400 Blows

Week 8 – 12 Oct

Film History – Spanish Surrealism

Expressionistic technique

Begin planning chase sequence

Un Chien Andalou