In Preparation of a movie

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• ١عرضThe viewer: The makerالجلسة ١٣ مواد

  What are the differences between someone who loves cinema, as the member of an audience, and someone who decides to make a movie?

  • Notes on the CinematographerBresson, Robert. 1975. Gallimard
  • Be Kind RewindMichel Gondry, 2008 [excerpts]
  • Cinema ParadisoGiusepe Tornatore, 1988 [excerpts]

  في الجلسة

  • عرضBe Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry, 2008) [excerpts]; Cinema Paradiso (Giusepe Tornatore, 1988) [excerpts]
• ٢عرضNotation, wanderings: writing and walking as a research.الجلسة ٢٤ مواد

  For a moviemaker, walking around is a good way to find scenes, locations, dialogues and characters. But if walking is a great method to inspire, notation is an important resource to capture an idea. In Chekhov's Seagull, for example, Trigorin - the well-known writer - is always carrying a notebook. In the end of Act II, while talking with Nina, he sees the dead seagull and writes down an idea for a short story.

  • The Preparation of the NovelBarthes, Roland. 2010. Columbia University Press [excerpts] pg: 90 - 93 and 245 - 257
  • The Flaneur. In: The Arcades ProjectBenjamin, Walter
  • Suite VénitienneCalle, Sophie. 2015. Siglio Press
  • Lisbon StoryWim Wenders, 1994

  في الجلسة

  • عرضLisbon Story (Wim Wenders, 1994)
• ٣عرضThe idea for the movie.الجلسة ٣مادتان

  Eureka! The idea captures you. Once you have an idea, you feel authorized to start. There are many ways to start: a screenplay, research, rehearsals, an ambience. What matters is to find an efficient way to develop the idea, giving it a body.

  • PoeticsAristotle
  • Who's Camus AnywayMitsuo Yangimachi, 2005

  في الجلسة

  • عرضWho's Camus Anyway (Mitsuo Yangimachi, 2005)
• ٤تمرينThe first images: pictures, videos, drawings and storyboard.الجلسة ٤مادة واحدة

  There are many ways to develop an imaginary for a movie. We will analyse different strategies, such as the drawings made by Kurosawa before the start of shooting or the graphics that Alain Resnais developed for Last Year at Marienbad. We will also do some exercises to create the first images for our movies, discussing the process in class.

  • Something Like an AutobiographyKurosawa, Akira. 1981. Berkeley University Press.

  في الجلسة

  • تمرينWe will also do some exercises to create the first images for our movies, discussing the process in class.
• ٥تمرينThe projectالجلسة ٥

  The project is the plan or the strategy to accomplish the idea for the movie. It is a document that should answer as many questions as possible about how to execute the idea. If written, it also can be a relevant material to apply for grants or to find collaborators.

  How to write a project? Each student will write a project for their movies, inspired by the examples that will be shown in class.

  في الجلسة

  • تمرينEach student will write a project for their movies, inspired by the examples that will be shown in class.
• ٦عرضCrisisالجلسة ٦مادة واحدة

  You don't have the equipment. You don't have money. You don't have a crew. You don't have a screenplay. You don't know how to start. You are not sure about your idea.

  The crisis is a well known component in the process of making a movie. We will discuss different scenarios of crisis, how to overcome or accept it, as well as investigate cinemas that are created from it or are structured by a permanent state of crisis.

  • 8½Federico Fellini, 1963

  في الجلسة

  • عرض8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
• ٧عرضThe locations, the actors.الجلسة ٧مادة واحدة

  Wong Kar Wai says that first of all he finds the locations. Hong Sang Soo likes to get drunk with his actors before casting them for a movie. Auditions to find actors. Walkings to find locations. Between the actor and the character, between the location and the scenario: the alchemy between the fiction and the real conditions.

  • Opening NightJohn Cassavetes, 1977 [excerpts]

  في الجلسة

  • عرضOpening Night (John Cassavetes, 1977) [excerpts]
• ٨عرضRehearsalsالجلسة ٨مادتان

  Lev Kuleshov and the ideal space to rehearse a movie. Reharsing with the crew. Rehearsing with actors. Digital era: rehearsing and shooting at the same time.

  • The Rehearsal Method. In: Kuleshov on FilmKuleshov, Lev. 1974. University of California Press.
  • Salaam CinemaMohsen Makhmalbaf, 1995

  في الجلسة

  • عرضSalaam Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1995)
• ٩عرضThe crewالجلسة ٩مادتان

  Cinema is a collective effort. We will discuss how to deal with a group of people, taking in consideration the structured roles that each one needs to perform in order to shoot a movie, and also the politics of friendship that needs to be established for a smooth shooting routine.

  • Rebel without a CrewRodriguez, Robert. University Press of Mississipi.
  • The MonstersPedro Diógenes, Guto Parente, Luiz Pretti and Ricardo Pretti, 2011

  في الجلسة

  • عرضThe Monsters (Pedro Diógenes, Guto Parente, Luiz Pretti and Ricardo Pretti, 2011)
• ١٠عرض تقديميعرضBefore shootingالجلسة ١٠مادة واحدة

  Godard often worked composing the day's script in a car on the way to the set, borrowing lines from a newspaper, the radio, or a book at hand, and even whispering lines into the earpieces of his actors. This "open method" is also true for filmmakers like Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who keeps the process open until the last minute before shooting. Others, like Francis Ford Coppola, prefer to have everything planned (even the smallest details). Each student will present for the class their plans for a first day of shooting.

  • La nuit américaineFrançois Truffaut, 1973

  في الجلسة

  • عرض تقديميEach student will present for the class their plans for a first day of shooting.
  • عرضLa nuit américaine (François Truffaut, 1973)