Teaching Workshop: Documentary Visual Arts: Theory and Practice

The laboratory aims through practical and theoretical examples to tell, explain and try to carry out the steps necessary for the production of art documentaries, with particular attention to the production, post-production and writing phases (to which the second part of the course is entirely dedicated ) and with a practical film writing workshop and conception of an art documentary starting from a given filmed material.

PROGRAM BY LESSON
lesson 1) from writing to post-production: how a documentary is born and what it is (with particular reference to the world of art), what "reality" is (if it exists), how a glance can be told
lesson 2) from writing to post-production: how an art documentary is born, with some practical examples: clients, fundraising, destination research
lesson 3) projection and analysis of two short documentaries born on commission:
Gillo Dorfles. In a glass of water and Art tells about art. Mario Cresci
lesson 4) from writing to fundraising, from filming to editing depending on the purpose: TV, Museum, dissemination, Cinema and Festival, Web, social
lesson 5) the documentary as a project to be financed: official and independent cinema practices and mechanisms. The importance of sound.
lesson 6) one shot, countless films. start of the writing workshop: rewriting of the short documentary seen in the classroom, using the same footage but distorting the narration. Division into groups and initial formulations, exchange of ideas, research of the subject and its purpose (and therefore of its language).
lesson 7) rewriting
lesson 8) rewriting, image research and possibly editing of a "Teaser", first revision of the projects
lesson 9) presentation of projects as before a "commission"