Ib Film Term 1b

IB FILM YEAR 12 – TERM 1B

Expressionism to Noir... to Fantasy to Reality? WEEK

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TOPIC

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Chase Sequence (ongoing)

PRODUCTION Planning: storyboarding: Film Roles: Film-making process...

PRESENTATION Textual Analysis Presentations on Chase Scenes Louise Choi Chase Scene – What is best?

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FOCUS WEEK

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Noir to Horror

FOCUS WEEK

FOCUS WEEK

Film history – Horror Genre Chase sequence- Production phase AUTEUR – Which Theory of Horror horror film? Use of colour grading; challenging Classic Horror Approach; conventions clips of Exorcist, Evil Dead

Let the Right One In

FOCUS WEEK Mise en scene analysis Auteur Theory; Film as art (TOK) Bruce Robinson FORMALISM – use of colour etc

Genre – Modes etc... 4

Horror AUTEUR Hitchcock

Shift from external to internal locus of horror

Psycho Blair Witch Project

Chase sequence

Mise en scene analysis Auteur Theory Sociocultural Context

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Horror and Fantasy

Fantasy Theory – development of Uses and Gratifications

Chase sequence

Mise en scene / editing analysis Continuity editing

AUTEUR Voyeurism, scopophilia (shower scene) and psychoanalytic theory; start with Psycho Psychoanalytical theory – (Bates Motel)

Pan's Labyrinth 6

REALISM

400 Blows / Breathless

AUTEUR THEORY Different types of realism Cahier du Cinema

Chase sequence

Scene analysis

Guerilla filming – jump cuts, DIY ethos, 'punk' film – New Wave ethos.

French New Wave 7

Italian Neo Realism

Bicycle Thieves Political Context translated into aesthetics

Guerilla filming

Scene analysis Sociocultural context

Ken Loach - Chacun son Cinema 8

Documentary

Standard Documentary

Scene / mise en scene analysis

Michael Moore

Positioning the viewer

Koyaanisqatsi

Extra Special Bonus – Dogme 95!

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