ELO-E100501 - Courses with Varying Content in Film (MA), Night Interior, planning, 1.11.2021-12.11.2021

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    Welcome to this NIGHT INT planning course!
    

    Responsible teacher saara.saarela@aalto.fi, please be in touch if further questions!
    

    Here, the directors, DOPs, production designers and costume designers join forces in finding new ways visualize film content on sreen.

    HUOM! This course can be found also with code ELO-E350002 (for MA directors)
    

    Course content (for all)

    "How to visualize emotions?" Is our main question during these weeks.
    

    This planning course concentrates on finding ways to visualize emotion in film through a practical scene rehearsal.
    

    In week one, after discussions and theoretical approach to the subject, the director, cinematographer, production designer (and costume designer) do their own collaborative research through film analyses on how emotions(s) are carried out in film narration, how they are visualised in practice. In week two, students break down a scene the director has written (in Scene writing 1 course) and find together narrative solutions to the visual world of the scene in hand. Students are encouraged to find an exhibition, a performance or other form of art to back up their visual planning. During the second week these artistic ideas are concretized and made into actual plans which can be executed later. More detailed productional constraints to the plans are defined closer to the course start. Nevertheless, the scenes are to be planned so they can be shot in studio, in one day and in one set with 2 characters only. And the scenes happen at NIGHT, which brings its own challenges to visualising the atmosphere and the content.

    The course continues in weeks 4-5 with a crew check-up / follow up when the concrete plans need to be ready. The scenes will be realised in studio sets (can be referential) during the second part of this Night Interior course in weeks 10-12. Post and final screenings in week 13. The execution part will be scheduled separately and has its own course code.

    2021

    SCHEDULE

    CLASSES: Q201, F102 VÄRE and Odeion  (Maarintie 8)

     

    Week 44
    	1.11 Monday CLASS Q201	2.11 Tuesday	3.11 Wednesday CLASS F102	4.11 Thursday	5.11 Friday CLASS F102
    9.30- 12.30	Kick start: Schedule Content Learning aims   Panel Discussion: What is visualising emotion?	Individual / crew work	Crews’ presentations Assig 1	Individual / crew work	Finalizing presentations
    13.30- 16.30	Division into crews ASSIGNMENT1 For Wed 3.11	Individual / crew work	Reading through the scripts Director’s aims Crews’ questions ASSIGNMENT2: For Friday 5.11   Crews’ work on the scripts starts	Individual / crew work	Crews’ presentations Assig 2     ASSIGNMENT3: For Friday 12.11

     

     

    Week 45
    	8.11 Monday CLASS F102	9.11 Tuesday CLASS Odeion	10.11 Wednesday CLASS F102	11.11 Thursday	12.11 Friday CLASS F102
    9.30- 12.30	Individual / crew work   ELO FEST	Film screening (9h00) Kaisa Mäkinen presentation	Individual / crew work     Visiting ART	Individual / crew work     Visiting ART	Finalizing presentations
    13.30- 16.30	Individual / crew work   ELO FEST     Visiting ART	Lecture on Ozu         Visiting ART	Check point: Crews’ questions       Visiting ART	Individual / crew work   Preparing presentations Visiting ART	Crews’ presentations Assig 3