IB Film EE examples

How does Roger Deakins’ use of lighting, colour and composition adapt visual conventions in No Country for Old Men (2007) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017)?

To what extent does colour saturation in The Fall, and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover symbolise the tension between subjective reality, human imagination and a morally corrupt reality?

To what extent do lighting and framing construct viewer complicity in Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976) and Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)?

How filmic techniques are used in Come and See, and Son of Saul are used to expose the banality and cruelty of war?

To what extent has the use of allegorical storytelling in Zootopia (2017) and Isle of Dogs (2018) allowed complex societal themes to be effectively presented in contemporary cinema?

To what extent do Disney films such as Peter Pan, Pocahontas, Mulan, and The Princess and the Frog perpetuate U.S. cultural stereotypes about ethnic groups, like those of the Chinese, Native Americans, and African Americans?

How does the film Shrek (2001) and The Lego Movie (2014) use postmodern film techniques to explore the theme of identity and acceptance?

How are teen females represented in the teen-based films Clueless and Mean Girls, with reference to feminist theory?

To what extent were independent Thai filmmakers successful in depicting their political perspectives of Thai politics through the film references: “The Cemetery of Splendor (2015)” by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and “By The Time It Gets Dark (2016)” by Anocha Suwichakornpong

To what extent did the stereotypical representation of Arabs and Muslims evolve in Hollywood cinema from pre to post-9/11?

To what extent do the films Parasite (2019) and Joker (2019) portray social-class conflict and the lower class’ struggles?

How does Jordan Peele use the Macro and Micro elements of film language to subvert traditional horror tropes and create his unique filmmaking style in his films Get Out (2017) and Us (2019)?

How is gender represented in Halloween (1978) and Scream (1996) through the application of Male Gaze Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, and Final Girl Theory?

How do the films: The Shining (1980), The Blair Witch Project (1999), and A Quiet Place (2018), effectively utilise techniques of horror filmmaking in order to elicit fear from the audience?

How does Bong Joon-ho utilize cinematic technique to highlight and critique class inequality?

To what extent does the analysis of Gasterbaiter Serbian documentaries made in the last ten years in the XX and the beginning ten years of the XXI centennial with the use of visual anthropology accurately depict the many aspects of the guest workers' life?

How does traditional Japanese culture amplify the themes of love, nature and greed in keyanime films?

¿Hasta qué punto se puede categorizar el cine colombiano que aborda el tema del narcotráfico como perteneciente al género gángster?

Robert Eggers’ take on the Psychological Horror Genre of Film