TASK
Assess the degree to which the examples below meet the assessment criteria:
Assess the degree to which the examples below meet the assessment criteria:
Please complete this Google Form to outline your initial ideas for the comparative project.
Over the next week in lessons and for independent study you must conduct some independent research into:
You need to aim to find approx 5 research sources that helped you understand your film focus and analyse your own films/sequences using that approach:
These sources should include:
This research must be recorded and referenced using the Harvard System.
One way in which you can record this research is to use a slide show, with a slide per source. Here is a slide show template you can use.
Research one of the following film theories:
From this video choose one film movement which you would like to learn more about.
Find a secondary research source that introduces and explain the film movement you have chosen and list 5 films that came out of your film movement.
Write a one sentence definition for that film movement, which describes it’s look and intentions.
Sound easy? Well it is! Genre analysis is done in three steps.
1 Define the corpus.
That is, agree on a group of films that you think are ‘pure’ example of the genre.
This definition may be done in combination with secondary research.
So: Fantasy Corpus:
This means agreeing on a Repertoire of Elements, which are similar across the corpus and indeed necessary for a film to be given a genre label. In this case ‘Fantasy Film’.
An Example analysis of the fantasy genre
Once you’ve defined those conventions, you need to consider how far your film is similar and/or different compared to those conventional features.
What are the generic conventions of a given genre and how similar and/or different is a given film?
Choose three films you would love to study.
Some advice:
Restrictions:
You cannot choose a film we have studied together during the course or in any other part of your IB studies (Extended Essay). So that means Pan’s Labyrinth, The Dark Knight, Nosferatu, Let The Right One In & all the films we studies for the textual analysis are off limits!
Here is the guidance from the IB Film Specification Guide
Here is the assessment criteria
You must define your creative intention for each task!
“Students who fail to clearly state their filmmaker intentions for a film production role will be limited to a mark of 1 in criterion A for that role.”
The pages should show development & should link:
“…use the language of the inquiry cycle to show how exploration leads to discovery through action and to appropriate evaluation of the impact of research…”
The action pages are where you get practical & technical. You should include comments on:
The first thing in your reflection page / section must be a sentence on, how far have you met your creative intention. Think…
There should be some textual analysis of your own work in the reflection pages.
Everything should be referenced:
You should use Harvard Referencing
During this week you should be completing a close micro analysis of your sequence from your film.
This is a process that you should be familiar with:
Previous blog posts that contain most of the terms your need:
Here are our mind maps on the four micro elements.
You should watch the sequence a minimum of five times.
Here are documents to help you make notes on the four micro features as you watch the sequence.
Complete one of these documents in preparation
You’ve got one week to conduct the research necessary to help you understand your chosen film:
By the end of the week you will submit a proposed sequence from your film as well as an essay question which will help you focus on the sequence as well as link your ideas to the whole film. You should take a copy of this document to record the research that you undertake this week.
Reference: Zucker, C. (2001) ‘ “God Don’t Even Hear You,” or Paradise Lost: Terrence Malick’s “Days of Heaven.”’, Literature Film Quarterly, 29(1), p. 2.
20 Years of Japanese Cinema – Media Magazine Article
Reference: Ramey, M, 2009. Cinema of Japan. Media Magazine, 27, 7-12.
Ghetto Culture – Media Magazine Article
Reference: Turner, P, 2011. Ghetto Culture. Media Magazine, 35, 19-22.