Film theories from this article: Research Film Theory
| Cue | Notes |
| What is an example of valuable vs destructive messages? | An examination of the powerful messages of beliefs, behaviors, lifestyles, etc, to determine whether they are valuable or destructive to the film. |
| Filming to break binaries. | |
| The process of exploring how things collapse in on themselves. | |
| Film critics have applied deconstructionism to films in order to determine how content and form can at times “butt heads” with one another, or how a filmmaker may have unknowingly embedded ideological “trap doors” within their film. How a filmmaker may have attempted to create a film with a specific message, but ended up contradicting that very message. | |
| Exploding Binaries – taking pairs such as male/female, individual/group that they believe are overly simplistic, sexist, racist, etc. | |
| Example – we may champion individuals over groups. But, the life of any individual, hinges on an intricate web of others who allow the individual to thrive. | |
| Example – Feminists who want to draw attention to how films reinforce or challenge the notion that male characters are superior to female ones. |
Summary
Filming to break binaries.