Cinema remains one of the most culturally relevant and significant modes of media created by humanity in our history. In just the United States, the public spends billions each year on getting access to movies and films; the escapism of the theater gives us a window into experience and reflection, application and analysis. As film culture progresses, and new films push the boundaries of audience expectations, as well as create their own history and additions to culture, it is supremely helpful to students to develop an understanding to the connections of Film to other areas of knowledge and abstract, conceptual thinking. Primarily, students are most benefited by being able to host numerous competing theories about a film, while also finding and arranging detailed evidences to support their own theories about that film.

During the second year of the IB Film class, we will study without the safety of the classical paradigm of time; our understanding of film will become more theoretical and conceptually philosophic. The general aims of the second year of the IB Film class are: 1) to continue to assist students in successfully analyzing films created by others (to a more refined degree than their first year in the class); 2) to continue to assist students in successfully creating their own films (and to advance their own established skills and filmmaking styles) ; and 3) to assist students in reflecting on their own style and drives as filmmakers (which will assist them in the completion of the IB Internal and External Assessments).

Students in the second year of the IB Film class will be required to have a class Film Journal/Notebook for notes, reflections, and planning (it is encouraged that they continue using their Film Journals/Notebooks from their first year), as well as their own camera (such as found on a smartphone), and access to their own editing software (such as free apps and programs available on smartphones or in Apple/Windows operating systems). Each major Unit of study in Film Theory will feature elements about a genre or theory of film, as well several smaller cinematic elements that are included within that genre. Each major Unit of study will also feature an anchor film, which will suffice to focus students' attention as a paragon example of the genre, and as a piece of classic cinema.

SIB Film - Film Theory and Philosophy

SIB Film - Film Theory and Genres

SIB Film - Film Appreciation and Application

SIB Film - Internal and External Assessments