FILM PRODUCTION WORKSHOP

Per Mouritzen and Jørgen Riber Christensen

Exam Plan:
Wednesday May the 5th in the video studio, room 5.124, KS3.
You must be ready outside the exam room 15 minutes before the time allotted to you. You only have to attend the exam for your own half hour.

Group 1: Coward
Mengxia Ou 9.00-9.30
Olalla Tunas 9.30-10.00
Manuel Esparcia 10.00-10.30
Patricia Saura 10.30-11.00

Group 2: Reality does not always reflect the dream
Yuanyuan Chen 11.00-11.30
Chan Yee Mei 11.30-12.00
Katarzyna Matej 12.30-13.00
Petr Kaspar  (no grade) 13.00-13.30

Group 3: The Bridge
Guido Pontani 13.30-14.00
Nora Hart 14.00-14.30
Julia Marcinowska 14.30-15.00
Chuchu Bian 15.00-15.30


You may start the exam with a presentation of around 5 minutes. Subjects could be: film language, dramaturgy, genre, the process from script to finished film or the technologies you have used.
After the presentation there is a discussion about your film, and the exam itself stops after 25 minutes in all. The exam is purely individual.



The course is an introduction to video production. Students will be instructed in how to produce a short narrative film.
The course is a combination of two two-hour long lectures on video production, script writing, and the language of film and television and of two hands-on workshops. The first of these introduces students to the video department and its facilities, instruction in recording equipment (DVCam, tripod, light, etc) and a practical exercise in recording. The second workshop will offer instruction in digital editing and all the facilities in the Avid suites, e.g. digitalisation, transitions, sound editing, master-to-tape and compression of video for the Internet.
Literature for the course will be presented during the first session.

The students following this course will be asked to produce a three-minute narrative film, which will be graded using the Danish 7 point scale. The due date for the film is April the 27th 2010.
There will be an examination of 30 minutes for each student, where the film will be discussed.
The value of the exam is 5 ECTS.

Plan:

March 1., 12.30 – 14.15 Camera work (Per) the video studio, room 5.124, KS3

March 8., 12.30 – 14.15: Film language and scriptwriting (JRC), the video studio, room 5.124, KS3

March 15., 12.30 – 14.15 Digital editing, (Per) at the AV-laboratory, Room 5.124, KS3

March 22., 12.30 – 14.15: Cinematographic dramaturgy and the design process (JRC), the video studio, room 5.124, KS3

27/4-2009 Hand-in finished film at the AV-laboratory

Students:

Group 1:
Mengxia Ou
Olalla Tunas
Manuel Esparcia

Patricia Saura

Group 2:
Yuanyuan Chen
Chan Yee Mei
Katarzyna Matej

Petr Kaspar

Group 3:
Guido Pontani
Nora Hart

Julia Marcinowska

Chuchu Bian

Group 4:
ThevaThevananth


??:
Beijia Huang
Mangmang Li


No production:
Chakib Nacer el Haouzia
Johann Andrieu





Get actors: : Log on to http://www.dask-online.dk

On-line manual for digital camera

Video manual for camera - recommended!

On-line manual for Avid - English edition

Literature: (Do not necessarily buy these books before the course)
David Bordwell, Film Art, McGraw-Hill 1997
David Bordwell, Narration in Fiction Film, Routledge 1985

James Monaco, How to Read a Film, OUP, 1981