Cinematographic training course for beginners on set, direction and digital photography
Overview
The course, conceived and developed by Dario Indelicato and Vincenzo Mineo, aims to provide an overview of the work on the film set, focusing mainly on the areas relating to the direction and photography departments.
The aim is to give opportunity to know and be able to interpret the world of the film set by providing the basic tools for the development of the process itself, so that entry into the sector can be facilitated, given the constant expansion of related industries in the area.
Specifications
An overview of filmmaking will be offered, paying particular attention to the direction and photography departments, the main fulcrums of the development of the film project. Specifically, the various roles that make up the two departments will be framed with their qualifications and responsibilities, and the network that is intertwined in the constant collaboration between them.
The lessons will take place in Trapani, and two sessions will be created, one in April and one in June 2024, at the headquarters of Movie Sicily srl.
The course will last 20 hours in one week, the first session from Wednesday 3rd to Sunday 7th April for 4 hours a day, from 3pm to 7pm.
To participate in the course a fee of participation of 450.00 euros, which can be divided into two installments of which the first is to be paid within one week of the start of the course. No previous experience is required.
Paper and digital materials (handouts) will be provided.
The course will be activated with a limited number of participants with a minimum number of 10 participants and a maximum of 20.
For info and registration, contact Movie Sicily lab@moviesicily.com by 30 March 2024specifying NAME, SURNAME, DATE OF BIRTH, RESIDENCE ADDRESS, TELEPHONE NUMBER.
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DIRECTION
HOSTED BY VINCENZO MINEO
What the directing department is and how it works, who are the assistant directors. The editing process, the planner, the group leaders. Hierarchies and functions of other departments. How to prepare a cast list and organize a casting. Practical exercises with the students are planned.
- Introduction to the direction department: roles and skills - The structure of a set. introduction of all the roles that orbit around the set: skills, responsibilities and relationships between them.
- How to read and fill out an agenda
- A day of set: the order of the day. The arrival on set. The preparation of the set and the actors. The start of filming. The break. The end of the day.
- The examination of the script: the breakdown sheets
- The examination of the script. How to read a screenplay and all the information you need to get from it.
- Compose the days with a work plan: times and rests
- The work plan: dissect the script and group it together by environments. The weight of a scene or an environment, the division into days.
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
HOSTED BY DARIO INDELICATO
What the photography department is and how it works, who I am director of photography, digital imaging technician, operator, assistant operator, assistant operator, video assist, data manager, cableman. The process of designing and preparing the photographic look. The choice of technical means. Hierarchies and relationships with other departments. Archiving and management of footage for delivery to post-production.
- What is cinematographic photography
- department organizational chart, qualifications and responsibilities, and the satellite departments that serve the photography department.
- How to idealize and create a photographic look,
- Choice of lenses, filters, digital camera and its various setups, types of lights and lighting techniques. The LUT and the use of CDLs in livegrading.
- Digital Imaging Technician (DIT): role and responsibilities
- Direct collaborators, Video Assist, Data Manager, Assistant Director. How a workflow is developed. Management of the camera and the logarithmic signal. Photographic exposure, colorimetric and contrast evaluations. Difference between Color Grading and Color Correction
- A day on set: Preparation. Adaptation to the agenda. Photographic continuity. Relations with other interested departments. Evolution of coordination from pre-production to post-production. Delivery from set to assembly.
ABOUT US
- Vincenzo Mineo. Graduated in History of Cinema at the Sapienza University of Rome. He has worked as assistant director for Luca Miniero, Ciprì e Maresco, Costanza Quatriglio, Gianni Zanasi, Claudio Cupellini, Matteo Rovere, Manetti Bros. As an author he has made documentaries and short films which have won awards in various national and international festivals including: CARGO (Best documentary at Bellaria Film Festival 2010), ZAVORRA (nominated for the David di Donatello 2012).
- Dario Indelicato. He began cultivating his passion at a Sicilian television station at a very young age, and after an academic career in Rome he quickly entered the film sector through the group of Ermanno Olmi and Maurizio Zaccaro. He specializes in digital cinema, holding roles as film editor and digital imaging technician, collaborating with renowned directors of photography such as Daniele Ciprì, Maurizio Calvesi, Francesco di Giacomo, Tani Canevari, Gian Filippo Corticelli, Fabrizio Lucci and collaborating on projects by directors such as Luca Miniero, Matteo Rovere, Claudio Giovannesi, Ficarra and Picone, Giovanni Veronesi, Roberto Andò, Emma Dante, Roberta Torre, Ferzan Ozpetek and many others. Along his career he boasts collaborations on projects that have received important national and international awards for photography and best film. As an author he has made documentaries that have won awards at various national festivals including RI-SCOSSA.
