Learning Results
- Ability to organize and implement a small narrative audiovisual work following successfully all the stages of its production (preproduction- production – postproduction) with emphasis on personal style, economy and efficiency. Knowledge of the handling of the techniques of screenwriting, directing, and editing.
- Orientation to practical and more specialized knowledge needed for the implementation of a short film
- Development of skills for independent and personal learning.
- Ability to work with groups of people related to the implementation of the project.
- Ability to take roles and find coefficients
- Ability to think and create structured concepts
- Ability to critically analysis how to work and the final results.
- Sharpening and broadening critical and creative capacity and perception in the context of audiovisual creation.
General Abilities
- Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Decision-making
- Standalone work
- Teamwork
- Working in an international environment
- Criticize and self-criticism
- Design, management and implementation of audiovisual works
- Respect for diversity and multiculturalism
- Demonstration of social, professional and moral responsibility and gender sensitivity
- Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking
- Broadening expressive tools and unlocking the creative imagination of students
- Promotion of artistic research
Course Outline
Theory
- Short-film fiction
- Presentation and critical analysis of short films by major creators.
- Acting approaches
- Motives and plot/ Stanislavsky’s theory
- Scenario analysis
- The management of cinematic time in short films
- Sources of funding
- Presentation of major festivals and distribution venues
Laboratory
- Create a short film
- Design
- Script
- Production design
- Sources of funding
- Production implementation
- Distribution/ Promotion and show in festivals and competitions
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Roberta Marie Munroe, How Not to Make a Short Film: Secrets from a Sundance Programmer, 2009.
- Kim Adelman, Making it Big in Shorts: The Ultimate Filmmaker’s Guide to Short Films – 2nd edition, 2009.
- Daniel Gurskis, The Short Screenplay: Your Short Film from Concept to Production (Aspiring Filmmaker’s Library), 2006.
- Lloyd Kaufman, Direct Your Own Damn Movie! , 2009.
- Steven D. Katz, Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen, 1991.
- Walter Murch, In the Blink of an Eye, 2nd Edition.
- David Mamet, True and false: heresy and common sense for the actor, London: Faber, 1998.
- David Mamet, On directing film, London: Faber, 1992.
- Camille Landau – Tiare White, What they don’t teach you at film school: 161 strategies for making your own movie no matter what, New York, Hyperion, 2011.
- Κομνηνού, Μ., Από την αγορά στο θέαμα Μελέτη για την συγκρότηση της δημόσιας σφαίρας και του κινηματογράφου στη σύγχρονη Ελλάδα 1950-2000, Papazisis Publications, 2004