For any student to create, to present and to study film requires courage, passion and curiosity: courage to create individually and as part of a team, to explore ideas through action and harness the imagination, and to experiment; passion to communicate and to act communally, and to research and formulate ideas eloquently; curiosity about self and others and the world around them, about different traditions, techniques and knowledge, about the past and the future, and about the limitless possibilities of human expression through film.
Film Studies - The IB Diploma Programme
The Diploma Programme is a rigorous pre-university course of study designed for students in the 16 to 19 age range. It is a broad-based two-year course that aims to encourage students to be knowledgeable and inquiring, but also caring and compassionate. There is a strong emphasis on encouraging students to develop intercultural understanding, open-mindedness, and the attitudes necessary for them to respect and evaluate a range of points of view. Film Studies is non-obligatory subject at Group 6 (Arts) in IB Programme. It can be choosed for standard and higher level exam to.
Film Studies - General Objectives
To realize that film is both a powerful communication medium and an art form.
To develop students’ skills so that they become adept in both interpreting and making film texts.
To develop students’ critical abilities, enabling them to appreciate the multiplicity of cultural and historical perspectives in film.
To work individually and as a member of a group.
To learn to respects other's work, empathy, curiosity.
To enjoy working on and about film, with courage and passion.
To enjoy lifelong engagement with the arts.
To become informed, reflective and critical practitioners in the arts.
To understand the dynamic and changing nature of the arts.
To explore and value the diversity of the arts across time, place and cultures.
To develop perceptual and analytical skills.
To understand film as a complex art form.
To be able to formulate stories and ideas in film terms.
To know and use the practical and technical skills of production.
To have critical evaluation of film productions by the student and by others.
To have a knowledge of film-making traditions in more than one country.
To demonstrate an ability to express ideas with clarity, coherence, conciseness, precision and fluency in both written and oral communication.
To demonstrate an ability to engage in independent textual commentary on both familiar and unfamiliar pieces of film.
To demonstrate a wide-ranging appreciation of structure, technique and style as employed by authors, and of their effects on the audience.
To demonstrate an ability to structure ideas and arguments, both orally and in writing, in a logical, sustained and persuasive way, and to support them with precise and relevant examples.
To be able to draw together knowledge, skills, research and experience, and apply them analytically to evaluate film texts.