Learning Objectives
The following skills are acquired:
Professional expertise:
Ability and skill to approach a film project experimentally and to develop new design techniques in the process. This includes dramaturgy development, exposé and storyboard development (possibly also in collage form).
The students practise the ability to develop rhythm, dramaturgy and narrative structure experimentally. They learn to translate the results of experimental work into a film aesthetic as well as skills handling digital camera technology and the necessary software as well as a 16mm film camera.
Knowledge of professional production processes and the ability to apply this knowledge in small projects.
Methods:
The ability to use all the skills learned so far in a film project in a professional way. Knowledge of how to locate solutions in a difficult situation during film production. Ability to solve problems in difficult situations during a film production. Ability to generate aesthetic solutions from experimental film work.
Social competence:
Critical ability
Ability to work out solutions to problems in a group
Self competence:
Perseverance
Ability to work independently on a film project
Content
Loosely based on the motto: "The accident is the motor of the experiment".
The students will develop new techniques of representation in an experimental way in order to formulate a film language of their own. The concept of animation is expanded: New contexts are explored, stories emerge in real time or in a playful way.
In short exercises resulting in film sequences of approx. 30-seconds, the students will experiment with the problems of rhythm, dramaturgy, narrative structure and typography in film and with animated film in space, in real time, projected, reduced, distorted, restricted and reimagined.
This also includes experimental work with sound as a complement to cinematic design. From one of the film sequences created in the exercises the students will then develop and realise a more extensive work during the assignment time.
Course language
English
Lecturers
Gerd Gockell, Adrian Flury, Sophie Haller, Jeroen Visser and Guests
Cover image: Thomas Bartels
