The document discusses two senior pathway options for film and media: IB Film and BTEC Creative Media. IB Film enhances skills through creativity-focused assessments including an independent study script or research paper, 15-minute presentation on a film extract, and a 7-minute practical film production. Most students achieve high exam results of Level 6 or 7. BTEC Creative Media offers a more practical option through unit-based assessments covering topics like video installation, photography, editing, and marketing. It provides more control over curriculum and attention compared to the broader IB program. Both pathways are accepted by universities and prepare students for careers in growing creative sectors.

1. Film and Media:
Senior pathways

2. IB FILM
• Why Group 6?
– Enhances skill set.
Creativity sectors
growing in UK, US.
– It’s the actual IB
experience
– Different assessment
models
– Highest exam results
globally

3. • Why IB Film?
• Students tend to like it!
• Use your existing
knowledge of Film
• Develop your own
interests; no set texts
• Allows you to get to high
level by a number of routes
– be technical, literate,
creative, organised…
• Most students get L6 or L7
(70% of 2015 leavers)
• Different assessment
model – no exam
IB FILM

4. IB FILM
• Assessments
• Independent Study (25%)
– A script about film eg
‘Write about the
representation of black
men in French and
American gangster films.’
– Eg – ‘ A comparison of the
sports genre in India and
America.’
– Eg – ‘Representations of
young women in the
Chinese and Indian chick
flick.’

5. • Assessments
• Presentation (25%)
• A 15 minute talk
about a 5 minute
extract of film
– Birdman
– Toy Story 3
– About Elly
– Moonrise Kingdom
IB FILM

6. IB FILM
• Assessments
• Practical
Production (50%)
• A 7 minute film
– Director
– Editor
– Cinematographer
– Writer
– Sound designer

8. BTEC CREATIVE MEDIA
• WHY BTEC?
• More practical
• More targeted for
entry into certain
sectors
• Less distraction
• More control over
your curriculum
• More attention

9. BTEC CREATIVE MEDIA
• Major (12 units) or
Subsidiary (6 units)
• Growing creative
sectors
• Welcomed by
Universities (with a
couple of odd
exceptions…)
• Flexible unit choice

10. • We have done
units focusing on…
– Video Installation
– Photography
– Advertising
– Editing
– Marketing
– Music Video
– Just about anything
you can think of.
BTEC CREATIVE MEDIA