Welcome IB Film and Advanced Students

Yup, you guessed it. It's time to commit our thoughts, feelings and research to a forum where we can bounce ideas off each other and continue our quest to be better film makers.

So to get us started in this process, each of you will be creating your own film blog that will be your digital note book for the following areas of exploration:

1. Personal Stories: Each day we are visited upon many stories in our lives that might make for interesting films. Each week you'll commit one to your blog. It can something that happened to you, a family member, a friend, or even in the news. I will also be providing prompts on occasion.
2. Film Reviews and Responses: Each of us is an avid film fanatic and watch films at an chance we get. Sometimes these are seen in class and sometimes they are in the privacy of our homes. Let's share our thoughts regarding what excites us or annoys us about these films here. You can discuss shorts from the internet, classics you rent, or new releases; it's all fair game.
3. Research on Film History, Theory and Production: All of you are in the process of developing your abilities as film critics and therefore are reading, researching, and screening films and texts in order to develop your understanding and ability to articulate the style and technique you see in film. Here we can post your independent research from textbook readings as well as on-line in blogs and research sites.
   

So as you can see, we'll have more than enough to write about and the best part of this is that " "WE ALL" will be reading what you write! Yes, as a blogger, you must read what other people are saying and comment on their thoughts in a meaningful and constructive way.

Directions:
1. Create your own blog with your first name, last initial and design it the way you see fit.
2. Send me the URL to your blog so I can create a page for us to subscribe to each other's sites.
3. Commit to creating 3 posts a week. The topics will be from class assignments as well as self selected.
4. Let's start with a post on a personal story! What themes are you interested in exploring as a film maker? What seem to be controversial topics with in our culture that a film maker might give us some insight? Look at what's playing in the theaters, headlines in the papers, and what's on tv and throw out 3-5 ideas. If you have a link to a article, web page, image, movie.... great embed it into your post....


Let me know if you have any questions or issues getting started.
Let's get blogging!