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Book / Magazine Research

Research Sources

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Independent Research Tasks

Over the next week in lessons and for independent study you must conduct some independent research into:

  • Your film focus
  • Your two films

You need to aim to find approx 5+ research sources that helped you:

  1. Understand your film focus
  2. Explore the micro and macro features in your chosen own films
These sources should include:
  1. A quote from the teachers’ research notes.
  2. Reviews of your films
  3. One Book
  4. One Magazine articles
  5. One Websites or Blog Article
  6. One video essay or podcast

Recording your research

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.

Your personal slideshow for recording your research has been shared via Google Classroom

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Online Research for your Comparative Video Essay.

Morning or Afternoon, if you’re a late riser.

Last week of distance learning! Next week, starting Monday 8th June, you’ll be back in school and we’ll be continuing to work on your comparative video essay.

Deadlines:

Research Completed: Friday 19th June

Script Drafted: Friday 3rd July

Video Completed: Friday 17th July

Distance Learning, WB 1st June

Complete the online research for your video essay.

This should include a range of sources on your films or study focus (genre, representation, theory, film movement…). Please ensure you have at least one of each of the following:

  • Blog / Web Page
  • Podcast or Video Essay
  • Review (one for each of your films)

Check

Please use your critical thinking to evaluate the source:

  • Is the author creditable?
  • Is the source relevant? 
  • Does the source have a particular bias or mission (fan sites / videos should be avoided)

Instructions

You must spend time reading / digesting each source, which should take about an hour per source.

Part of that hour should be to complete your personal Research Record Slideshow, which I shared via Google Classroom in the week before half term.

Remember one slide per source.

Ensure this is also up to date with the research you conducted before 1/2 term and also has details of the films, reason for selection and possible key scenes for your analysis.

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Film Theory

Task:

Research one of the following film theories:

  1. Audience Reception Theory
  2. Feminist Film Theory
  3. Formalism Theory
  4. Genre Theory
  5. Marxist Film Theory
  6. Masculinity Theory
  7. Realism Film Theory
  8. Star Theory
  9. Postmodern Film
  1. Find a short definition, in simple terms, that sums up the theoretical approach.
  2. Name an important theorist.
  3. Identify 2 films which are considered important within that theory.
  4. Identify 2 recent films which might be explored using the theory.
Our Research

Please use this slideshow to present your research:

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Film Genre

A possible approach to the Comparative Video Essay is Genre.

Remember, genre is essentially a comparative essay between two films in the same genre. Often these films, as per the rules of the comparative essay, are separated by time and / or space.

To start exploring genre and a key research task is to start understanding the conventions of a given genre.

Task

Watch an episode of Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema

Complete a set of notes on your selected genre.

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Film Movements

Watch this

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.

  1. British New Wave
  2. Japanese Golden Age
  3. New Queer Cinema
  4. Third Cinema
  5. Italian Neorealism
  6. German Expressionism
  7. Soviet Montage
  8. Golden Age of Hollywood
  9. La Nouvelle Vague

Task

Please use this shared Slideshow to present your research.

Our Research

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Research Sources for your Comparative Video Essay

In your final video essay, which compares our two films you need to show that you have done some research.

From IB Film Specification:

‘Each student carries out broad research, using both primary and secondary sources, in order to investigate possible areas of film focus and films for comparison from within the areas of film focus, using materials from a range of sources, including original films, critiques, publications and other media.’

In the assessed coursework you should do this research entirely independently and should aim to have between 5-8 sources. These sources will be made up of a combination of:

  1. Your two chosen focus films
  2. Books on your film focus or chosen films
  3. Critics Reviews
  4. Magazine and Newspaper Articles
  5. Video Essays
  6. Podcasts
  7. Websites & Blogs

For this practice unit we have provided some research materials that we would like you to quote in your video essay. We are also going to go to the library later this week to find a book!

Task

In pairs divide and conquer one of these resources, which will be allocated to you.

Find 1-3 quote(s) from the source, which you think are useful in developing your understanding of

  1. …the context of the film movement
  2. …the genre (Gothic horror)
  3. …the cinematic style (micro features) of our films

You should also generate a full Harvard reference for your specific source.

Put both the quote and the Harvard reference into this slideshow for the whole class to access when we put together our video essays.

Class Research Shared Document

Please complete a page for your research source in this shared slideshow. You should include a Harvard reference in the speakers notes at the bottom.

1) Media Magazine Articles

Read this article on horror monsters.

Read this article on Horror Genre & Vampire as Metaphor.

2) Crash Course on German Expressionism

3) Film IQ – History of Horror

4) Academic Journals

Here are three articles which I found on Film Vampires:

  1. A Century of Vampires
  2. Warm Blooded – True Blood & Let The Right One In.
  3. Here is an article on Let The Right One In.
  4. Themes in Let The Right One In of Exclusion and Isolation
5) Reviews

Roger Ebert on Let The Right One In

Roger Ebert on Nosferatu

Help

If you would prefer to listen to the article / source being read as you read along to make notes, you will need to add an extension to chrome.

Please find the link here.