IB FILM YEAR 12 – TERM 1B

Expressionism to Noir... to Fantasy to Reality?

WEEK TOPIC INDEPENDENT STUDY PRODUCTION PRESENTATION

1 Chase Sequence Planning: storyboarding: Film Textual Analysis Presentations on
(ongoing) Roles: Film-making process... Chase Scenes

Louise Choi Chase Scene – What

is best?
2 FOCUS WEEK FOCUS WEEK FOCUS WEEK FOCUS WEEK
3 Noir to Horror Film history – Horror Genre Chase sequence- Production Mise en scene analysis
phase
AUTEUR – Which Theory of Horror Auteur Theory; Film as art
horror film? Use of colour grading; challenging (TOK)
Classic Horror Approach; conventions
clips of Exorcist, Evil Bruce Robinson
Dead
FORMALISM – use of colour etc
Let the Right One In

Genre – Modes etc...

4 Horror Shift from external to Chase sequence Mise en scene analysis
internal locus of horror
AUTEUR - Auteur Theory
Hitchcock Psycho
Blair Witch Project Sociocultural Context
5 Horror and Fantasy Theory – Chase sequence Mise en scene / editing analysis
Fantasy development of Uses and
Gratifications 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 Chase sequence Scene analysis

AUTEUR THEORY Different types of realism Guerilla filming – jump cuts, DIY
ethos, 'punk' film – New Wave
Cahier du Cinema ethos.

French New
Wave
7 Italian Neo Bicycle Thieves Guerilla filming Scene analysis
Realism
Political Context translated Sociocultural context
into aesthetics

Ken Loach - Chacun son

Cinema
8 Documentary Standard Documentary Scene / mise en scene analysis

Michael Moore Positioning the viewer

 Koyaanisqatsi Mode of address

Extra Special Bonus – Dogme 95!