International Baccalaureate
The Assessment Criteria Lessons from the Screenplay What is so great about it? Allows the movie to ‘talk’. Treats each movie in the same way. Is structured to allow comparison Using captions to emphasis key ideas. Reuses those captions in order clarify Is clearly spoken – about 2500 words for 15 minutes! Uses film language… Read more A Great Video Essay
The Read Through You will all complete a read through of the script and get some peer feedback on the key assessment criteria. The groups will be 3 strong and at the beginning you as author will allocate: A timer and someone to count quotes & references to key scenes Someone to listen out for… Read more Comparative Essay Peer Assessment
Proof Reading for Assessment Before we go into the final planning stages and start visualising your script you must take a moment to complete a self assessment of your work. You won’t be happy if you have to re-record and then re-edit the video essay, because you failed to do this and missed out some… Read more Comparative Essay Script Self Assessment
Drafting Your Script By the beginning of next week (Monday 8th November) you must have completed a first draft of your script. This will probably be in the form of a rough essay – approx 1,000 words. If you have followed the planning document, it should look something like this: Introduction, justification and context Comparative… Read more Preparing your comparative essay script
Your Research Project Before we start scripting the essay we need to develop a structure that allows you to illustrate your research, understanding of the whole films, their context and how these big ideas and revealed in the cinematic style (micro). A Recap In Brief… What have you learnt from your research? Genre & Style… Read more Planning & Structuring The Comparative Study
Watch a range of video essays from the following channels, for two reasons: Gather secondary research about your macro area / research focus. Understand what a professional standard video essay looks like and get some tips for editing Here are our recommended channels: Task: find at least one video which contains some useful secondary research… Read more Video Essay Research
Below are the interim deadlines and meeting dates for the comparative video essay. Please ensure that you meet these deadlines to avoid angst, stress and suffering! Formal Meetings. The IB require that we have three formal meetings with each student to discuss progress. Notes from these meetings are submitted to the IB along with the… Read more Comparative Video Essay Deadlines
What does a good video essay look like? You need to be clear of the standard you are aiming for in this video essay. You have done a video essay on Let The Right One In compared to Nosferatu and hopefully that was a learning experience, which you can take into this project and improve… Read more Example Comparative Essays
Key Information Here is the guidance from the IB Film Specification Guide The Comparative Video Essay. Here is the assessment criteria Your Task Have an idea for a project, which includes A film focus Two comparative films A question to answer or topic to explore / evaluate. The Proposal Please complete this form as many… Read more The Comparative Video Project
Task: Research one of the following film theories: Audience Reception Theory Feminist Film Theory Formalism Theory Genre Theory Marxist Film Theory Masculinity Theory Realism Film Theory Star Theory Postmodern Film Find a short definition, in simple terms, that sums up the theoretical approach. Name at least one important theorist. List the key terms used in… Read more Film Theory