IB Theatre - Research Presentation (first assessment 2024): Videos

Title of Video. Directed by First Name Last Name of Director, Studio Name, Year of Release. Name of Database.

NOTE: For lectures from MASSOLIT, omit the Director and Studio, and substitute MASSOLIT uploaded date for the Year of Release. See the example below.

NOTE: While MLA 9th edition recommends including a URL and date of access, you may need to leave that information out when accessing a video on a library database. Since library databases require a login, most URLs will stop working after the session ends.

Examples:

Cold War - Origins, 1945-50 – Cold War Historiography. Lecturer: Andrew Preston, 2022. MASSOLIT, massolit.io/courses/cold-war-origins-1945-50/ cold-war-historiography. Accessed 5 July 2023

Romeo and Juliet. Directed by Dominic Dromgoole, Shakepeare's Globe, Uploaded 6 January 2021. Digital Theatre Plus.

("Title of Video")

Examples:

("Cold War")

("Romeo and Juliet")

Note: If the video has a long title, you may shorten it in your in-text citation by using the first word/phrase from the title.

Title of Video. Production Studio, Year. App Name app.

Examples:

Pan's Labyrinth. Warner Brothers, 2006. Netflix app.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Fox Searchlight, 2017. Crave app.

("Title of Video")

Note: If the video has a long title, you may shorten it in your in-text citation by using the first word/phrase from the title.

Examples:

("Pan's Labyrinth")

("Three Billboards")

"Episode Title." Directed by First Name Last Name of Director. Title of Series, season number, episode number, Network, Day Month Year of Broadcast if given. App Name app.

Example:

"The Hope That Kills You." Directed by MJ Delaney. Ted Lasso, season 2, episode 10, Apple TV+, 2 Oct. 2020. Apple TV app.

("Title of Episode")

Note: If the video has a long title, you may shorten it in your in-text citation by using the first word/phrase from the title.

Examples:

("The Hope")

Presenter's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Video." Website Name, uploaded by Name of Uploader, Day Month Year Uploaded, URL. Accessed Day Month Year viewed (optional, add if there is no upload/publication date).>

Note: If the website name is the same as video uploader, you may leave out the "uploaded by" element from your citation.

Example:

Sarago, Sasha Kutabah. "The (De) Colonizing of Beauty." TED, Nov. 2020, www.ted.com/talks/sasha_sarago_the_de_colonizing_of_beauty.

(Last Name of Presenter)

Example:

(Sarago)

Presenter's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Video." Website Name, uploaded by Name of Uploader, Day Month Year Uploaded, URL. Accessed Day Month Year viewed (optional, add if there is no upload/publication date), Transcript.

Note: If the website name is the same as video uploader, you may leave out the "uploaded by" element from your citation.

Example:

Sarago, Sasha Kutabah. "The (De) Colonizing of Beauty." TED, Nov. 2020, www.ted.com/talks/sasha_sarago_the_de_colonizing_of_beauty.

(Last Name of Presenter)

Examples:

(Sarago)

"Episode Title." Directed by First Name Last Name of Director. Title of Series, season number, episode number, Network, Day Month Year of Broadcast if given. App Name app.

Example:

"The Hope That Kills You." Directed by MJ Delaney. Ted Lasso, season 2, episode 10, Apple TV+, 2 Oct. 2020. Apple TV app.

("Title of Episode")

Note: If the video has a long title, you may shorten it in your in-text citation by using the first word/phrase from the title.

Example:

("The Hope")

"Episode Title." Directed by First Name Last Name of Director. Title of Series, season number, episode number, Network, Day Month Year of Broadcast if given. Website Name, URL. 

Example:

"Let the Great World Spin." Directed by Andrew Bernstein. Ozark, season 4, episode 2, Netflix, 21 Jan. 2022. Netflix, https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80117552.

("Title of Episode")

Note: If the video has a long title, you may shorten it in your in-text citation by using the first word/phrase from the title.

Example:

()"Let the Great World Spin"))

"Episode Title." Directed by First Name Last Name of Director. Title of Series, season number, episode number, Network, Day Month Year of Broadcast if given.

Example:

"The Science of Success." Directed by Annamaria Tallas. The Nature of Things, season 61, episode 14, CBC, 1 Apr. 2022.

("Title of Episode")

Note: If the video has a long title, you may shorten it in your in-text citation by using the first word/phrase from the title.

Example:

(("The Science of Success"))

Title of Movie: Subtitle, if any. Directed by First Name Last Name of Director, Distribution Company, Year.

Example:

Pan's Labyrinth. Warner Brothers, 2006. Netflix app.

Avatar: The Way of Water. Directed by James Cameron, 20th Century Studios, 2022.

(Title of Movie)

Note: If the video has a long title, you may shorten it in your in-text citation by using the first word/phrase from the title.

Example:

("(Avatar: The Way of Water)