M AST E RC L ASS ES
A N D SE M I N A RS
1) “STORYTELLING
WITH HORIZONTAL
AND VERTICAL
ASPECT RATIOS”
- AN ASPECT RATIO
WORKSHOP
3) ”IMPROVISATION
AS A TOOL IN
CREATIVE PROCESS
IN THE ART OF
CINEMA”
5-day workshop by Timo ”Tinde Heinänen”
(ELO Helsinki) & Axel Block (HFF Munich)
WHEN 4.-6.5.
FOR sound-designers,directors,actors… everyone
interested!
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS max. 12
WHEN 4.-8.5.
FOR open for everyone, cinematographers served
first
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS 8 + 4 actors
During the shooting days there will be 2 groups
working simultaneously, each having the focus on
chosen aspect ratio. Max 4 students in each group.
Open for students from any discipline (also actors!),
cinematographers served first.
Due to the desired effective working in the
workshop the number of student in each group will
be limited max 4 students, the cinematography
students having the access to the first seats.
Preferred to have students from each school.
This workshop will focus on the challenges of
storytelling and cinematic language working with
2,40:1 and 9:16 aspect ratios. A short script will be
storyboarded, shot with actors and a roughly cut
with both aspect ratios in 2 groups and screened
and discussed on Friday.
THE WEEKLY SCHEDULE WILL BE AS FOLLOWS
Monday 4.5. Afternoon - a lecture: Shooting in
Cinemascope (by Axel Block)
Tuesday 5.5. Morning hours: composing for 9:16,
preliminary tests
Tuesday afternoon hours: reading the script, recce,
storyboarding
Wednesday 6.5.: Group A: Shoot 2,40:1 / Group B:
Shoot 9:16
Thursday 7.5.: Group A: Shoot 2,40:1 / Group B:
Shoot 9:16 > Editing starts
Friday 8.5. Morning hours: Rough cuts and
screenings
TEACHERS Timo ”Tinde Heinänen” (ELO Helsinki) &
Axel Block (HFF Munich)
CONTACT PERSON Olli Salonen, +358-41-5171108
2) DIRECTING
ACTORS
One-day lecture/ workshop by Catriona
MacInnes (Screen Academy Scotland)
WHEN 5.5.
FOR Directors, actors, everyone interested
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS Max. 15 + 4 actors (2
male and 2 female)
It will be a very relaxed and informal one day
workshop which explores ways you can work
with and collaborate with actors to find truthful
performance. It will also give students an
opportunity to talk about their fears around
directing actors and to try out some techniques
including improvisation, which can be used in
rehearsals and casting workshops to discover a
character or characters.
If students have script excerpts (in English) or even
just scenarios (don’t have to be in script form)
they would like to get some help with, we could
accommodate up to 4 x 1-3 page scenes. They are
welcome to submit these by this Saturday 2.5. and I
will pick 3 or 4 from the selection.
If not, I will bring some excerpts to work from and
get them to talk about their current projects on the
day.
TEACHER Catriona MacInnes, Director, Lecturer:
Film Practice/ Screen Academy Scotland
CONTACT PERSON tba
2,5-days workshop by Jone Takamäki
TEACHERS Greta Varts/ Junior Lecturer in
Screenwriting, Film Theory (The Baltic Film and
Media School)
CONTACT PERSON tba
6) CASTING
WORKSHOP
2-day workshop by Mikko Kanninen
(University of Tampere)
WHEN 7.-8.5.
FOR Everybody. Actors especially welcome.
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS 12-16
Musician / composer / sound designer / actor /
teacher of creative thinking Jone Takamäki leads
you to the world of improvisation. How to use
improvisation / creative thinking for example in
sound design - how this method enhances the film.
This lecture / workshop is about opening your mind
and senses to the different creative processes in the
Art of Cinema.
Through lecturing, watching different
documentaries and exercises the participants
examine combining the image and sound, the effect
of sound & music on the suspense and atmosphere
in the film.
What are the expectations of an actor and director
in casting events? What are directors looking for?
What the actor THINKS the director is looking for?
We are trying to find some common ground and
understanding to this difficult and sometimes
painful event. Our goal is to release tensions and
misunderstandings in both sides of the camera.
In this course we film and watch each other
on different image sizes - together. The only thing
that is required to participate to this workshop, is a
positive and supportive approach to self and others!
TEACHER Jone Takamäki, Sound-guru (Finland)
CONTACT PERSON tba
TEACHERS Mikko Kanninen/ Director/ Actor/
Researcher/ Senior Lecturer in Acting (University of
Tampere, Finland)
CONTACT PERSON Heidi Lindén
4) “STORIES OF
OTHERS: HOW
DOCUMENTARY
FILM CAN REFLECT
SOCIETY”
1-day masterclass by Susanna Helke
(ELO Film School Helsinki)
WHEN 5.5.
FOR Everyone interested.
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS Not limited.
Susanna Helke’s award-winning documentary
films are cinematic reflections of society, often
stories of young people disenfranchised by their
own community: kicked out queer youth facing
homelessness in the gay mecca of San Francisco,
young immigrant boys in the outskirts of Helsinki, or
unemployed young men in a remote area of Finland.
In this one day masterclass professor Susanna
Helke talks about her method of directing, and the
possibilities of documentary film in making visible
the invisible disparities in society - as well as the
poetics of the political in documentary filmmaking.
7) “WHAT DOES
IT MEAN TODAY,
BEING HUMAN WITH
DIGNITY?” – THE FILMS
BY JEAN-PIERRE &
LUC DARDENNE
1-day masterclass by Wouter Hessels/ RITS,
School of Arts Brussels
WHEN 7.5.
FOR Everyone.
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS Not limited.
During this masterclass we will discuss the films
directed by the Dardenne brothers. We will start
from their documentary beginnings in the seventies
and end with their most recent film, “Deux jours,
une nuit / Two Days, One Night” (2014), selected for
the last Cannes filmfestival. We will talk about their
ideas, inspirations, questions, working method, style
and influences.
9) CINEMA &
SOCIETY WORKSHOP & PITCH
-half day lecture by Nigel R. Smith (Screen
Academy Scotland)
WHEN 5.5. afternoon
FOR Screenwriters, Producers, Directors - and
anyone interested in story.
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS 15/16 (5 groups of 3, or
4 groups of 4)
How can films reflect society? Students will form
small workshop groups to collaborate in the creation
of a premise for a short or feature film which sheds
light on an aspect of contemporary society - and
which might carry appeal for an international
audience. They’ll then construct a verbal pitch to
deliver for group analysis/ feedback.
TEACHER Nigel R. Smith, Film and Television
Producer, Screenwriter and Lecturer/ Screen
Academy Scotland
CONTACT PERSON tba
10) A QUICK & DIRTY
CRASH COURSE IN
CINEMATIC VR
-4-day workshop by Synes Elischka
WHEN 4.-7.5.
DESCRIPTION We have 3-4 days to make one or
two short films for the Oculus Rift. The workshop will
start with an introduction to the topic by watching
some examples and looking at the technology
behind it. Afterwards we’ll form teams to develop
a short film together. The workshop is based on
spontaneous collaboration and learning by doing.
We will have one self-built rig with 6 GoPros that
we can take outdoors and try to come up with an
interesting concept or story for VR. A second group
will play around with a more traditional approach,
shooting inside the LUME studio using a spotlight...
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE If you want to try to
develop something weird for this new medium,
you’re welcome. I’m hoping primarily for motivated
filmmakers with a do-it-now attitude and good
improvisation skills who don’t shy away from acting
themselves and are happy to help others with their
projects, or to develop something together in a small
team. Sound designers and cinematographers are
also welcome to join the experience.
TEACHER Synes Elischka, Visual Artist and
Researcher/ ELO Film School Helsinki
PROGRAMME:
THE WEEKLY SCHEDULE WILL BE AS FOLLOWS:
10.00-10.30 Introduction
10.30-12.00 Screening ”American Vagabond” (2013)
12.00-12.30 Discussion
(Lunch)
13.30-14.00 Screening: ”Playground” (2010)
14.00-15.00 Discussion
(Break)
15.15-16.30 Screening: ”The Idle Ones” (2001)
16.30-17.30 Discussion
TEACHER Susanna Helke, Documentary filmmaker/
Professor Documentary (ELO Film School Helsinki)
CONTACT PERSON Maira Dobele
5) ”FILM CRITICISM
AND SOCIETY”
1-day seminar by Greta Varts (Baltic Film and
Media School)
WHEN 6.5.
FOR Everyone interested.
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS max. 15
The seminar aims to discuss the role of criticism
in relation to various aspects of film: its role as
feedback for filmmakers, as digestion for society,
as shaping the film industry. The approach focuses
on criticism as analysis, which always functions in
context. The seminar thus also explores the inner
and outer contexts of film as such. It is aimed at all
filmmakers who are interested in analytical aspects
of filmmaking and wider processes surrounding the
art form.
10.00-11.00 Introduction
11.00-12.30 Screening of “La Promesse / The
Promise” (1996)
12.30-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Introduction
15.00-16.30 Screening of “Deux jours, une nuit / Two
Days, One Night” (2014)
16.30-17.30 Discussion
11) CASE LAPLAND
ODYSSEY
TEACHER Wouter Hessels/ Lecturer in film studies
RITS, School of Arts Brussels (Belgium)
FOR Free for everyone. Suits especially students of
production and directing, but the issues discussed
will cover procedures relating to DoP-color grading
connection, sound designer - mixer collaboration
and editor’s facilities. So pretty wide take on
different aspects of co-production.
8) THE IMPORTANCE
OF APPEARANCE
-half day lecture by Nigel R. Smith (Screen
Academy Scotland)
WHEN: 4.5. afternoon
FOR Screenwriters, Producers, Directors - and
anyone who has to work with screenplays.
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: Not limited.
A participatory lecture addressing practical issues
of writing for the screen, looking at the dominant
drama screenplay format and the intentions behind
it, how prose style influences visual style, and how
writers can direct directors!
TEACHER Nigel R. Smith, Film and Television
Producer, Screenwriter and Lecturer/ Screen
Academy Scotland
CONTACT PERSON tba
-a half day lecture / discussion by Aleksi
Bardy (ELO Film School Helsinki)
WHEN 4.5. afternoon
We screen the film Lapland Odyssey (a FinnishSwedish-Irish co-production, an award-winning
box office hit that has sold pretty well also
internationally) and I break the co-production,
financing plan and the structure of the project in
painful detail.
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS not limited.
TEACHER Aleksi Bardy, Producer, Screenwriter,
Professor of Production/ ELO Film School Helsinki
CONTACT PERSON tba
F E S T I VA L
PROG RAMME
DAY
TIME
ILLUMENATION
LOUNGE
SAMPO HALL
Monday 4.5.
10.00-12.30
12.30-13.30
LANGUAGE
STUDIO
4-22I1
(“ARNOLD”)
CLASS 4115
(”ILLU-CLASS”)
CLASS R201
(“STALLONE”)
MEDIA FACTORY
AUDITORIUM
ÄÄNIMAA
– ”SOUNDGARDEN”
WELCOME! &
GET TOGETHEREVENT FOR
EVERYONE
LUNCH
13.30-17.30
17.30-18.00
FILM STUDIO
CASE LAPLAND
ODYSSEY
1/1
(Aleksi Bardy)
CRASH COURSE
IN CINEMATIC VR
1/4
(Synes Elischka)
THE IMPORTANCE ASPECT RATIO
OF APPEARANCE WORKSHOP
1/1
1/5 (Axel Block)
(Nigel R. Smith)
SOUNDIMPROVISATION
WORKSHOP 1/3
(Jone Takamäki)
SOUNDIMPROVISATION
WORKSHOP 2/3
(Jone Takamäki)
EVENING SNACK
18.00-19.30
ELO Film
School Helsinki:
Introduction &
screening
EVENING
PROGRAMME
Tuesday 5.5.
10.00-12.30
12.30-13.30
ASPECT RATIO
WORKSHOP 2/5
(Axel Block &
Tinde Heinänen)
DIRECTING
ACTORS
1/1
(Catriona
MacInnes)
STORIES OF
OTHERS 1/1
(Susanna Helke)
CRASH COURSE
IN CINEMATIC VR
2/4
(Synes Elischka)
ASPECT RATIO
WORKSHOP 2/5
(Axel Block &
Tinde Heinänen)
DIRECTING
ACTORS
1/1
(Catriona
MacInnes)
CINEMA &
SOCIETY WORKSHOP &
PITCH
(Nigel R. Smith)
CRASH COURSE
IN CINEMATIC VR
3/4
(Synes Elischka)
CASTINGWORKSHOP 1/2
(Mikko Kanninen)
ASPECT RATIO
WORKSHOP 3/5
(Axel Block &
Tinde Heinänen)
FILM CRITICISM
AND SOCIETY 1/1
(Greta Varts)
SOUNDIMPROVISATION
WORKSHOP 3/3
(Jone Takamäki)
CRASH COURSE
IN CINEMATIC VR
3/4
(Synes Elischka)
CASTINGWORKSHOP 1/2
(Mikko Kanninen)
ASPECT RATIO
WORKSHOP 3/5
(Axel Block &
Tinde Heinänen)
FILM CRITICISM
AND SOCIETY 1/1
(Greta Varts)
SOUNDIMPROVISATION
WORKSHOP 3/3
(Jone Takamäki)
HFF Munchen:
Introduction &
screening
Karaoke, anyone?
Wednesday 6.5.
10.00-12.30
12.30-13.30
LUNCH
13.30-17.30
17.30-18.00
EVENING SNACK
18.00-19.30
EVENING
PROGRAMME
The Baltic Film
and Media School:
Introduction &
screening
Bar hopping @ Kallio…
Thursday 7.5.
10.00-12.30
12.30-13.30
18.00-19.30
EVENING
PROGRAMME
DARDENNEMASTERCLASS
1/1
(Wouter Hessels)
CRASH COURSE
IN CINEMATIC VR
4/4
(Synes Elischka)
ASPECT RATIO
WORKSHOP 4/5
(Axel Block &
Tinde Heinänen)
CASTINGWORKSHOP 2/2
(Mikko Kanninen)
DARDENNEMASTERCLASS
1/1
(Wouter Hessels)
CRASH COURSE
IN CINEMATIC VR
4/4
(Synes Elischka)
ASPECT RATIO
WORKSHOP 4/5
(Axel Block &
Tinde Heinänen)
CASTINGWORKSHOP 2/2
(Mikko Kanninen)
LUNCH
13.30-17.30
17.30-18.00
EVENING SNACK
Screen Academy
Scotland:
Introduction &
screening
How about going to a sauna?
10.00-12.30
Friday 8.5.
SOUNDIMPROVISATION
WORKSHOP 2/3
(Jone Takamäki)
EVENING SNACK
18.00-19.30
EVENING
PROGRAMME
CRASH COURSE
IN CINEMATIC VR
2/4
(Synes Elischka)
LUNCH
13.30-17.30
17.30-18.00
STORIES OF
OTHERS 1/1
(Susanna Helke)
ASPECT RATIO
WORKSHOP 5/5
(Axel Block &
Tinde Heinänen)
12.00-13.00
NOTE!! LUNCH @ FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION, KANAVAKATU 12
13.00-17.00
DEBRIEFING & SCREENING @ FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION, KANAVAKATU 12
17.00 >
MOVING TO A SECRET LOCATION TOGETHER…
EVENING
PROGRAMME
END PARTY @ SECRET LOCATION!!!