Directing / writing and storytelling (music videos, EPKs, short films, documentaries)

OBJECTIVES

• To know how to choose, define and share (work plan, writing, concept note, synopsis, bible, storyboard) directorial intentions
• To be able to communicate your intentions effectively to the producers, and then to the technicians, to ensure an overall understanding of the project
• Be able to create a clear narrative for the audience
• Acquire the ability to federate artistic and technical teams around a project, to have an overall vision, as well as all the stages of a production (knowledge of the different trades and their specificities)
• Being able to cover an orchestral rehearsal with a single camera, so as to cover enough angles to obtain a rich and varied montage (understanding how a musical rehearsal or recording works, the issues involved, managing existing lighting or creating/adding to it, setting up and managing an interview, mastering a camera, range of fixed or zoom lenses, managing rushes, editing a clip, EPK or documentary).
• Scripting a music video based on a given musical extract: choosing locations for filming - outdoors or in the studio - choosing technical resources, defining the image, lighting, choosing and using machinery (slider, gimbal, drone, overhead camera), playback shooting.
• Notion of staging, directing actors, musicians, dancers, etc.
• Use of special effects (filming against a green background, use of After Effects, titling).

CONTENT

• Theory: audiovisual languages, scriptwriting, sequencing, writing, dramatic structures and progressions, processes, etc.
• Tutorial: following the study and analysis of sequences (supervised), a stylistic exercise with the aim of creating a short sequence in a targeted aesthetic.
• Practical work: production of personal projects

Production of a document, audiovisual object or performance by musicians and dancers.

Presentation of a PAD (artistic choices and techniques used: see Image editing course)