WORKSHOP
DOCUMENTAL CINEMA
DURATION: 10 days
Making a film is building a representation of the world from a personal point of view.
Introduction
PRINCIPLES TO DEVELOP
The awareness that cinema is an instrument for constructing reality.
The value of paying attention to what surrounds us as a starting point for the work to be developed.
Question with curiosity and openness.
Invest in discussion without limiting the development of each person's personality, their ideas and
wills.
Approach each project in its specificity and discuss it together, making it a project
common.
In this workshop we are interested in working with cinema as a means of communication and artistic expression,
betting on a method of creation based on discussion, on the confrontation of opinions and sensibilities. The execution of short group exercises by the trainees during these ten days of the workshop will constitute a small set of filmic objects, the result of a first look and which we intend to act as a stimulus for the future. We intend to instill a critical observation and reflection on reality in order to lead to the creation of a cinematographic look, starting from the idea that the creation of a film is a collective construction, the richer the more and better directed.
GOALS
Viewing and analysis of films: perceiving the possibilities of approach, devices, themes and
documentary work processes.
Carrying out small exercises/thematic films – preparation, shooting and editing.
Creation, preparation and dynamization of small work teams consisting of two people –
director/camera operator and sound operator.
Introduce and experience a simple working method that can be continued and developed after the workshop.
WORKSHOP GENERAL PLANNING
1st day
Morning (10 am)
Presentation of the atelier and the work proposal. Film viewing and analysis
Afternoon (3pm)
Watching movie clips. Presentation of the technical material (camera and sound) and explanation of its basic handling. Discussion of ideas for the work to be developed.
2nd day
Morning (10 am)
Viewing and analysis of films (in groups). Discussion and shooting schedule.
Afternoon (3pm)
Crude technical exercise. Contact with the editing material.
From the 3rd to the 7th day
Morning (10 am)
Shooting
Afternoon (3pm)
Shooting
From the 8th day to the 9th day
Assembling the exercises (each group will be entitled to one morning/afternoon)
10th day
Presentation and discussion of final works
- The assemblies will be made in assembly units with Final Cut to be made available by those responsible for the atelier.
note:
Some of these dates may change. Whenever possible, at the end of every day of the workshop, the group will come together to view the images filmed by colleagues on the same day.
FINAL EXERCISES
The theme of the final exercises will be free and will have to be developed from the beginning of the training. The idea will be for each group to have a day of filming about something that arouses a special interest, an activity, a person, a story. The theme should be chosen according to curiosity about a subject and should take place in a close and accessible geographic space.
All raw images, collected daily, will be viewed by the entire group in order to encourage a form of creation and learning based on discussion and critical analysis, image by image.