The BIG 4: The FOUNDATION of FILM ANALYSIS in THE IB FILM CLASSROOM
Adam, your resident IB film teacher, wants to help your students walk the talk. How understanding the Big 4 (mise-en-scene, editing, cinematography, and sound design) can transform student analysis and filmmaking.
TWO KEY APPROACHES TO HELPING STUDENTS MASTER THE EXTENDED ESSAY IN IB FILM
Adam, your resident IB film teacher, has two key pieces of advice to help students navigate the 4,000 extended essay in IB film.
ATTACKING THE IB Film COMPARATIVE ESSAY
One of the four major assessments in the IB Film program is the comparative essay. In this article, Adam gives us a look at how be breaks down this major assessment into minor steps with great results.
REVISITING A SCRIPT: FOCUS on CONFLICT & CHARACTER
Consider this: most films that you see focus on two characters talking up on the screen.
Sometimes, they’re doing something, but most times, two or more characters are sitting down (maybe they are eating or drinking) and talking -- we call that a talking heads scene because the audience is literally watching two huge heads (on the screen) have a conversation