Hi everyone and welcome to this year's Docufiction
course!
The course will be taught by responsible teachers
Arturo and Saara, partly substituted by director Ville Jankeri. We will have
visiting lecturers, film screenings, an individual field trip, a day to work
with professional actors, an approach in performance and a filmic exercise
to be realized in pairs. The last two days are reserved for
watching the exercises you have done during these weeks and discussing them.
This workshop will expose students to documentary and fiction point of views in
different formats as well as storytelling and character building. Our aim, is
not to to tell you what docufiction is or should be, instead we want to find
out with you what docufiction COULD be. We want to expose you to different
impulses and points of view, so the different lectures, inspirational talks and
exercises are meant to reinforce and broaden your perception of cinema.
Docpoint is also part of this course, so everyone
attending the course will get accreditation (Saara Toiviainen has been in
contact with you already. If not please contact us asap). We will indicate
which films are good to watch and which discussions to follow.
Here is the overall schedule, you will get more info
on the (small) preassignment too.
WEEK 4
MONDAY 23.1 in Q202 / 9.30-17
(contact)
Morning: Kick start.
Situating docufiction as a genre.
Afternoon: going
through pre-assignment + film screening.
TUESDAY 24.1 in Q202 /
9h30-17 (contact)
Morning: Discussing
filmic exercise and forming teams.
Afternoon: Saara on "What could docufiction be from fiction POV"?
WEDNESDAY
25.1 (independent)
Morning: Field
trip individually or in pairs according to given exercise.
Afternoon:
Independent watching/reading
THURSDAY
26.1 in Q202 / 9h30-17 (contact)
Morning:
film screening + discussion
Afternoon:
script swap exercise
FRIDAY
27.1 in Q202 / 9h30-16 (contact)
Film
screening + discussion
WEEK 5
MONDAY
30.1 in Q202 and Q101 / 9h-17 (contact)
Improvisation
day with actors (improvising field trip findings further)
Those who
leave to MA seminar 1 will finish at 14h45. The rest will continue.
TUESDAY
31.1 in Q202 / 9h-17
Morning:
Asta Raami on intuition Dare to harness
your human brilliance: Are you dreaming
of better skills to envision, invent and make decisions? Are you exhausted of
work overload or feel lost in front of uncertain future?
Afternoon: Script swap exercise + finalizing groups for film exercises.
WEDNESDAY 1.2 and THURSDAY 2.2
Planning filmic exercise
independently (no class)
FRIDAY 3.2 in Q202 / 9h30-17
Morning: Visitor Renata Ferraz. Renata will talk about her artistic research for Rising Sun Blues (DocPoint 2023)
Afternoon: Groups short (informal) presentations about ideas for film exercises.
WEEK 6
MONDAY 6.2
in Q201 / 9-17 (contact)
Kristiina
Junttila workshop => Performance as creative method.
TUESDAY
7.2 in Q201 / 9-17 (contact)
Morning: Kristiina
Junttila workshop => Performance as creative method.
Afternoon:
TBC.
WEDNESDAY
8.2 (independent)
Filmic
exercise planning + shoot
THURSDAY
9.2 (independent)
Filmic
exercise planning + shoot
FRIDAY
10.2 (independent)
Filmic
exercise planning + shoot
WEEK 7
MONDAY
13.2 (independent)
Filmic
exercise planning + shoot + edit
TUESDAY
14.2 (independent)
Filmic
exercise edit
WEDNESDAY
15.2 (independent)
Filmic
exercise edit + finalizing + deliveries
THURSDAY
16.2 in Odeion / 9h30-16 (contact)
Screening
of filmic exercises + discussion
FRIDAY
17.2 in Odeion / 9h30-16 (contact)
Screening
of filmic exercises + discussion + final feedback and WRAP