Presenting ourselves today, like the directors of yesterday
Directing workshop for youth 13-17 years old 25 March – 6 May 2022
In the current age of Social Media, youth are often called upon to present themselves, finding themselves torn between the narration of reality and imagination serving to create an interesting story for an audience. Film storytelling has always been based on the ability to give life to a compelling human story on screen, often collected precisely from experience, just as the great directors of cinema have always done: from Federico Fellini to Ermanno Olmi, up to Paolo Sorrentino.
Studying the great directors of yesterday, the youth will tell their stories through a self-presentation film monologue or through the creation of an invented character. An opportunity not only to learn the techniques of storytelling, filming and editing, but also to reflect on the importance of consciously using the communication tools that technology provides us.
With Adriano Sforzi
Writing for cinema
from the idea of a film to the screenplay
- Friday 25 March 2022 at 17:30 - 19:00
The director's work on himself: how to recognise his own themes and make something he really cares about.
Reference film: Paolo Sorrentino, E’ stata la mano di Dio [The Hand of God] (2021)
Learning to see like a director
framing
- Friday 1 April 2022 at 17:30 - 19:00
The grammar of a film director: from close-ups to long shots. Reference film: Sergio Leone, Il buono, il brutto e il cattivo [The Good, the Bad and the Ugly] (1966)
Learning to listen
sound in cinema
- Friday 8 April 2022 at 17:30 - 19:00
A story can be told at the cinema using sounds, but you have to know how to listen: diegetic, extra-diegetic and intra-diegetic sound.
Reference film: Francoise Truffaut, Les Quatre Cents Coups [The 400 Blows] (1959)
Learning to edit
editing techniques and practice
- Friday 22 April 2022 at 17:30 - 19:00
Once the story has been filmed, it certainly isn’t finished. You must know the art of editing that puts cinema among the arts, creating its sound and music and accompanying the work until the final product.
Reference film: Alfred Hitchcock, PSYCHO (1960)
Author ethics
having a point of view
- Friday 29 April 2022 at 17:30 - 19:00
Develop your perspective as a film narrator and understand how to integrate it with the form and style suited for the relative social network.
Reference film: Federico Fellini, 8 ½ (1963)
Learn to doing
we will film our self-portrait
- Friday 6 May 2022 at 17:30 - 19:00
We will create a small self-portrait, real or invented, even using just a smartphone, to discuss it together, comparing content and the techniques used.
