In partnership with Search for the Common Ground (www.sfcg.org), an international peace-building and conflict transformation organisation, YFS will hold a special edition of its flagship residential course, The Art of Documentary Filmmaking for Beginners’ Course in Yangon from 29 October to 14 December 2014. This course aims to bring together youth participants from Mon, Kayin, […]
During this four-week course international tutors will work with graduates of previous courses and introduce new students to equipment and software (Digital Audio Workstations, ProTools), but also the artistic aspects of sound post-production and design. ___ Tutors: Ivan Horák / Czech Republic, Ansgar Frerich / Germany
This outreach programme of film screenings and discussions at three different sites in regional and/or remote rural areas, including two-week participatory video workshops for communities, filming of video testimonials of the rural poor, and recruitment of participants for YFS trainings will be implemented and managed entirely by students and local management in consultation and/or cooperation […]
The idea of this two-week course is to give emerging filmmakers the ability to distinguish between different editing methods in either documentary or fiction film and to understand how editing can be used to build a film’s intensity. In this editing analysis course, three feature-length films will be deconstructed according to their cinematic elements in […]
This course has been developed with practicing filmmakers in mind. It proceeds from the practicalities of camera, composition, editing, sound etc. rather than illustrating film history in a slavishly chronological way. Film clips illustrating the topics, film form and style are screened as appropriate during the course and students learn to analyse both the clips […]
During this two-week course an international tutor from the well-known Berlin Sound Design Studio Basis will work with graduates of previous courses and introduce new students to equipment and software (Digital Audio Workstations, ProTools), but also the artistic aspects of sound post-production and design. ___ Tutors: Ivan Horák / Czech Republic, Ansgar Frerich / GermanyÂ
A four-week residential training co-taught by local student trainers and an international tutor, aimed at 12 participants from the Beginners’ Workshop who have little or no editing experience. Participants will receive an introduction to digital editing suites and practice editing a range of short exercises from previously filmed material.  ___ Tutor: Jessica Ehlebracht / Germany
Six-week workshop for six male and six female participants aged between 22 and 40. Prior media experience beneficial but not a requirement. Includes an introduction to the genre, specialised sessions and practical exercises in cinematography, sound recording, interview technique, research and treatment writing, culminating in the production, in three-person crews, of four films on the […]
