Inside (HLE)

The following HL Essay aims to answer the line of inquiry: 

How does Bo Burnham explore existentialism and depict his declining mental health through the use of film techniques in the Netflix special Inside?

Read the essay carefully. Apply the HLE assessment criteria and discuss the marks you would award the script before reading the examiner's marks and comments. How different were your marks and comments from the examiner's marks and comments? What improvements would you make to this essay to achieve better results?

HLE Example: Inside by Bo Burnham
HLE Assessment criteria
Examiner's comments and marks
Assessment

You can write your HL Essay on a literary work or non-literary body of work. Is 'Inside' literary or non-literary? The way the student has approached the text, by focusing on the cinematography, suggests it is treated as a non-literary body of work. By focusing on the lyrics of the songs only, you could treat 'Inside' as a literary work. Notice how the student has structured paragraphers using the TEASER method from the HLE Builder. 

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