FilmViewing – Filmmaking Kits – Introduction
Filming with mobile devices Filmmaking Workshop
The Moving Cinema creative workshops in schools link film viewing of excerpts and entire films with creative practices with professional camera and tripod, cell phones and tablets, which allows young people to develop an in-depth reflection on the films. Besides, having their own creative practice makes them generate a personal bond with cinema, feel that their analysis and interpretation are valuable, and make them feel close to films. At the same time, viewing excerpts increases their knowledge about European cinema’s diversity, breadth and riches. Moreover, the work with mobile devices fosters cinema to become part of the daily life of young people with the tools they find appealing and are within their reach.
Based on the experience accumulated during these creative pilot workshops with filmmakers, teachers and students between 10 and 18 years old in different European countries and the tested methodologies, we have developed materials (a selection of European film excerpts and pedagogical material) that allow teachers to link the film-viewings with filmmaking and organize creative workshops easily and using technical resources at their disposal in most of the schools. As the creative workshops they are based on, the ‘FilmViewing-FilmMaking Kits’ deal with the following specific cinematographic questions: ‘Diary of Spaces’, ‘Light and face’ and ‘Trees’.
Each Kit contains:
– A selection of 5 excerpts especially interesting regarding each of these questions.
– Description of how to do the practices and making-of of their development.
– Practices made in workshops, as a reference.
– Links with materials included in ‘Inside Cinema’.
– Films which are especially interesting to watch completely, connected with the questions. The viewing materials includes European films belonging to different times, traditions and countries, thus proposing an itinerary and opening to the main references of European cinema, both heritage and contemporary films.