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IB Film SL and HL

22 lessons at SL. 24 at HL, with every HL-only topic. Five-minute lessons and practice questions on every assessment task.

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Units
6
SL lessons
22
HL lessons
24
Questions
144
Key terms
78

What you will study

Every lesson follows the current IB guide. Lessons marked HL are in the HL course only. The first unit is free.

The language of film5 lessons · free
  1. Core areasHow the film course works
  2. Reading filmMise-en-scène and lighting
  3. Reading filmCinematography
  4. Reading filmEditing
  5. Reading filmSound
Reading film: narrative, genre and style4 lessons
  1. Reading filmNarrative and structure
  2. Reading filmHow film elements create meaning
  3. Reading filmGenre
  4. Reading filmStyle, auteurs and film theory
Contextualizing film: movements and national cinemas4 lessons
  1. Contextualizing filmWhat context means for a film
  2. Contextualizing filmSilent-era movements: Expressionism and Soviet montage
  3. Contextualizing filmPost-war movements: Neorealism and the French New Wave
  4. Contextualizing filmNational cinemas and world cinema
Exploring film production roles4 lessons
  1. Production rolesThe production process and filmmaker intentions
  2. Production rolesThe screenwriter and the director
  3. Production rolesThe cinematographer
  4. Production rolesThe editor and the sound role
Textual analysis and comparative study4 lessons
  1. Textual analysisTextual analysis: the task
  2. Textual analysisWriting the textual analysis
  3. Comparative studyComparative study: the task
  4. Comparative studyBuilding the comparative study
Film portfolio and collaborative film project1 SL · 3 HL lessons
  1. Film portfolioThe film portfolio
  2. Collaborative film projectHL: The collaborative film projectHL
  3. Collaborative film projectHL: Planning and reporting the projectHL

Try a question

From “How the film course works”.

Questions are in English. Every answer comes with an explanation.

Which core area of IB Film is mainly about a film’s place in its time, culture and industry?

  1. AExploring film production roles
  2. BFilm portfolio
  3. CContextualizing film
  4. DReading film
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C. Contextualizing film

Contextualizing film links films to the conditions in which they were made and received.

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