These 2 weeks (1.3-12.3) will include directors' preparation work for the upcoming MA fiction films. The course can be also taken by students (by listening in) who are not working on their MA film, but want to learn how to do directors' workplans, text analyses, casting plans and how to plan and execute rehearsals with actors.
We
will be going through each MA graduation film script in detail
together, analysing them from director's percpective. Each student will
make their own breakdown and plan their cast and rehearsal day according
to preassignments and discussions during the first days. Each director
will have one day to rehearse selected scenes, or the whole film for
camera. The films DOPs are welcome to participate to the rehearsal day,
otherwise other directors will shoot the rehearsal. Reherasal can also
be done without camera and focusing only on the content of the scenes
and what happens between the actors.
The scene reherasals will be done with designated actors, there are 3 actors from Teak who are joining the course via "liikkuvuusopinnot". Extra professional actors can be casted if necessery, but each director needs to choose only 2 max 3 actors for their rehearsal day. You will not yet rehearse with the cast for your film, but start your casting process on this course.
Below you find the preliminary schedule (might still change!)
All days are 9h30-16h30 if not mentioned otherwise. This is planned as contact teaching, might change due to covid)
WEEK 9
MONDAY 1.3
Reading of scripts, script analyses and breakdown
TUESDAY 2.3
Independent work on own script analyses and casting (for rehearsals as well)
WEDNESDAY 3.3
Casting, methods of rehearsing.
Script 1 going through own script analyses (Gyongyi)
THURSDAY 4.3
Script 2 going through own script analyses (Elisa)
Script 3 going through own script analyses (Juho)
FRIDAY 5.3
Script 1 on rehearsal with actors (1 Teak + 1 professional)
WEEK 10
MON-TUE no class (Night ext planning!)
WEDNESDAY 10.3
Script 2 on rehearsal with actors (Teak students)
THURSDAY 11.3
no class (contact in camera continues, meeting in TEAK) 13h-17h
FRIDAY 12.3
Script 3 on rehearsal with actors (Teak students) + possibly one professional
