A well-rounded introduction to the different elements of photography, film and filmmaking helps young people make their first one-minute short films.
Dates: 7 to 21 August, 2016
Hours
This is an intensive two-week lab.
During the classroom period, sessions take place six days a week.
Saturday: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Sunday through Thursday: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
During pre-production and filming, participants may be asked to make time outside these hours, including on weekdays during the daytime.
Language: Arabic and English
Group Size: 20 participants
Programme Level: Beginners
Applicants should be between 13 and 17 years of age.
Price: 1,500.00 QAR
Download Course Outline here
Production
This course offers a non-thematic approach to helping participants through their film projects. It covers the artistic, technical and practical considerations of making a short sound film (documentary). In the first weeks, students will develop ideas for a 3- to 5-minute project. Students will gain the skills needed in the production of HD film, from concept to shooting, and will act as crew on each other’s films.
Instruction includes discussions on how to shoot a short film; pre-production preparations; sync shooting, HD-video procedures and sound recording; operation of HD camera technology; lighting and grip equipment; planning your film; casting; visualisation strategies; analysing dailies; and post-production. By the end of the course, students will have shot, evaluated and edited all footage and will screen it for the class.
Technical Training
As an integral part of the course, several workshops are held addressing optics, lighting, sound, writing and editing. Each student will participate actively in exercises essential to achieving in-depth knowledge of film production, as well as a commitment to cinematic language.
Materials
Students have a working schedule balancing the close study of selected films as well as production of their own work. Course materials include films and texts, which will inform frequent and extensive class discussions. While investigating the social and political context of cinematic works, these discussions will ultimately result in intimate dialogue about each student’s work.
ABOUT Handheld Stories
Handheld Stories is an educational and media-arts collaborative that provides media-creation tools and training for communities worldwide. Handheld Stories provides the volunteers and the curriculum for a wholesale video-training experience.
Handheld Stories was founded in 2009 to provide communities confronting critical social issues with the tools to document their experiences digitally in unique narratives, and to promote them online. From helping participants to understand their unique circumstances as vital and important stories, to editing final works on a laptop or tablet, Handheld Stories helps authentic voices emerge that are empowered in new and profound ways. At the culmination of these workshops, handheld trainees have acquired the skills necessary for semi-professional video production and broadcast.
Hours
This is an intensive two-week lab.
During the classroom period, sessions take place six days a week.
Saturday: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Sunday through Thursday: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
During pre-production and filming, participants may be asked to make time outside these hours, including on weekdays during the daytime.
Language: Arabic and English
Group Size: 20 participants
Programme Level: Beginners
Applicants should be between 13 and 17 years of age.
Price: 1,500.00 QAR
Download Course Outline here
Production
This course offers a non-thematic approach to helping participants through their film projects. It covers the artistic, technical and practical considerations of making a short sound film (documentary). In the first weeks, students will develop ideas for a 3- to 5-minute project. Students will gain the skills needed in the production of HD film, from concept to shooting, and will act as crew on each other’s films.
Instruction includes discussions on how to shoot a short film; pre-production preparations; sync shooting, HD-video procedures and sound recording; operation of HD camera technology; lighting and grip equipment; planning your film; casting; visualisation strategies; analysing dailies; and post-production. By the end of the course, students will have shot, evaluated and edited all footage and will screen it for the class.
Technical Training
As an integral part of the course, several workshops are held addressing optics, lighting, sound, writing and editing. Each student will participate actively in exercises essential to achieving in-depth knowledge of film production, as well as a commitment to cinematic language.
Materials
Students have a working schedule balancing the close study of selected films as well as production of their own work. Course materials include films and texts, which will inform frequent and extensive class discussions. While investigating the social and political context of cinematic works, these discussions will ultimately result in intimate dialogue about each student’s work.
ABOUT Handheld Stories
Handheld Stories is an educational and media-arts collaborative that provides media-creation tools and training for communities worldwide. Handheld Stories provides the volunteers and the curriculum for a wholesale video-training experience.
Handheld Stories was founded in 2009 to provide communities confronting critical social issues with the tools to document their experiences digitally in unique narratives, and to promote them online. From helping participants to understand their unique circumstances as vital and important stories, to editing final works on a laptop or tablet, Handheld Stories helps authentic voices emerge that are empowered in new and profound ways. At the culmination of these workshops, handheld trainees have acquired the skills necessary for semi-professional video production and broadcast.