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25: INTENSIVE WORKSHOP ON FILM PRODUCTION

Place: European Centre of Communication and Culture, Warsaw
Dates: 31 January – 3 February 2006
Number of participants: 16 (from Ukraine, Belarus, Poland)
Working language: Polish

Course objectives:
To make possible for young people from different countries to meet and get acquainted with the process of preparation and realization of a feature film and a documentary film
To produce films according to one’s own script and one’s own concept of editing

Course programme:
Each day started from the theoretical introduction into the afternoon workshops. On the second day the group of participants was divided into two shooting crews. The first crew was shooting a film according to the script prepared on the previous day, while the second crew was shooting a documentary on the workshops taking place on the film set (the so called “making-off”). On the third day each group was divided into two smaller groups (thus there were 4 groups). Using the same filmed material the participants prepared 4 films (two of them based on the script, and two documentary films). At the end of the workshops there was a screening of films, and comparison of different versions of films based on the same filmed materials.

SCREENPLAY WORKSHOPS  - film director Mariusz Wojaczek
Creation of image and sound
Means of expression in filmmaking
Film’s narrative and film’s dramatic composition; conflict in a film
Arrangement of space in a film

CAMERA WORKSHOPS - cameraman Norbert Modrzejewski
Shot design  (perspective, light, colour)
Camera angle and camera’s field of vision
Camera moves

EDITING WORKSHOPS - editors Bartosz Iłowski and Aleksandra Gruziel
Arrangement of shots – visual continuity
Music, tempo and rhythm of narration
Scene composition (characters, relations, action)

SCREENING OF PREPARED FILMS – producer Beata Iłowska
Theoretical basis of film critics
Screening of films
Sharing of personal experiences and impressions
Evaluation of workshops


Output of workshops:

Photo Archive of the Course: