FILM STUDIES
Directing workshop with Yann Gonzalez
with Yann Gonzalez
In partnership with La Manufacture, the ECAL x HEAD Master invited director Yann Gonzalez to take part in a directing workshop.
Learning Objectives
First year
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- Deepen your knowledge of technical tools relating to image, writing, production and sound, depending on the major: filming in studio sets; direct sound recording and mixing; developing skills in software for sound and editing (ProTools, Avid); script dialogue; exercises on reading sheets; preparation of a shooting plan; etc.
- Carry out workshop projects supervised by international professionals: research and approaches to documentary or fiction, sound creation, editing creation, work on directing actors.
- Develop a personal project (concept, writing, production) accompanied by a tutor.
- Produce and direct a commissioned film (writing and presentation of the project to the commissioning body; shooting in a small team, editing).
- Participate in the“Grand Voyage”: film shooting abroad during a trip lasting 3 weeks in collaboration with filmmakers and film professionals from the country visited (in the past Bela Tarr in Sarajevo, Alain Gomis in Dakar, Kaltrina Krasniqi and Dokufest in Kosovo, ...).
- Enhance your knowledge through theory courses in collaboration with the University of Lausanne (UNIL), the University of Zurich (UZH), the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK) and the Università Svizzera Italiana (USI): film history, screenplay and criticism; media economics, film archiving; methodological and practical approach to film restoration.
- Meet personalities from the film industry and other artistic disciplines in masterclasses.
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- Benefit from professional internships in Switzerland or abroad.
- Participate and collaborate with national and international film festivals.
- Immerse yourself in cross-disciplinary courses and workshops in collaboration with the Swiss Film Archive in Lausanne, RTS/RRS, La Manufacture/University of Performing Arts in Western Switzerland in Lausanne, Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne, the Swiss Literary Institute in Biel and La Fémis in Paris.
- Write a thesis based on the knowledge acquired throughout the course.
- Put into practice the know-how acquired in a graduation work, depending on the chosen major: directing, screenplay, editing, sound or production.
