I am very happy to announce that I will be giving a 2-day DSLR and large sensor camera workshop for documentary filmmaking at islands.doc, a three day documentary showcase held at the award winning building Centro das Artes on the beautiful island of Madeira, Portugal, from June 16-17.
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The best thing about it – apart from the amazing location – it’s completely free, as is the entire festival!! They are showing some amazing films there, for example Press Pause Play.
So in case you are around or can make a spontaneous trip to this beautiful place, definitely go ahead and come! I have never been to Madeira so I am really looking forward to spending a few days there. It’s the perfect place to spend a few days off too, so you might be able to combine the workshop / film festival with a short vacation.
This being a documentary festival – probably my favourite thing to shoot – I will focus the workshop around documentary filmmaking.
Here’s what I will cover in detail:
- Know your camera – DSLRs & large sensor cameras
- Sound recording & interviewing techniques
- Approaching a shoot & planning
- Picking a subject for documentary & researching
- Camera movement, framing & shot sizes
- Cinematic storytelling with the right choice of lenses, camera positioning and lighting
- Showing own examples of my documentary work and how I approached them, what I did and why – and how I would do it differently now.
- Timelapsing – theory & demonstration
- Post Production – some theory on editing documentaries and “making” the film, what do look at and how to deal with the amounts of footage
I am looking forward to meeting you all there. If you want to take part, get in touch with me, and I’ll forward your request to the organizer!
There are only a few remaining spaces available, so please hurry up.
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The amazing architecture of the screening Room at Centro das Artes in Madeira
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Centro das Artes in Madeira
