Класове по Кинематография в Апартамента

⚠ Тhis is the LAST WEEK to sign up for our Spring 2023 Filmmaking Class! 🚨 SEATS ARE LIMITED! 🚨

📝 Sign up at The Apartment Апартамента (ul. Neofit Rilski 68). Make sure to mention which days are most convenient for you! If you have any questions or concerns, give us a call at +359876926047

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Independent Filmmaking & Arthouse Cinema (led by Asparuh Frangov)

🔑 The Golden Rule: Every Rule Can Be Broken
📜 What is Cinema?
- Mise-en-scene
- The Temporary Suspension of Disbelief
- Sculpting in Time
🎞️ Evolution of Film
1. Silent Film Era, Expressionism, Montage
2. "Classical Cinema", Studio Cinema, Advent of Synchronized Sound
3. Film Noir, Underground Cinema
4. The New Waves – Breaking the Rules
- Italian
- French
- Japan/India
5. New Hollywood – The New Wave in America
6. Independent Cinema – Cassavettes to Tarantino
7. Transcendental Cinema – Bresson, Bergman, Dreyer, Tarkovsky
9. Experimental Cinema – Maya Deren, Bunuel, Lynch, Lars von Trier and Dogme 95
10. Modern Cinema - Mainstream vs. Arthouse
🎥 Technical Aspects
1. Camera & Lens – How Do They Work?
- Frame Rate
- Exposure Triangle: Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO
- Film Formats and Digital Formats
- Aspect Ratios
- Focal Lengths, Lens Types
- Tripods, Dollies, Steadicams/Gimbals and Camera Movement
2. Lighting
- Basic Three-Point Lighting
- Shadows
- Color Temperature & Intensity, CRI
3. Sound
- Audio on Set
- Foley
4. People on Set, Who Does What?
✍️ Screenwriting, Pre-Production
- Ideas, Index Card Technique
- The Hero's Journey
- Plot vs. Story
- Basic Three-Act Structure
- Basic Formatting
- Storyboard
- Planning a Production, Casting
- Funding - Where and How?
- Pitching Forums
- Making Do With What You've Got
🎬 Directing & Cinematography
- Scenes and Set-ups
- Blocking a Scene
- 180 Degree Rule
- Insert Shots
- Left to Right
- The Five C's: Camera Angles, Continuity, Cutting, Close-Ups, Composition
- Directing Actors
- Pacing
🖥️ Editing & Post-Production
- Soviet Montage Theory, Kuleshov Effect
- Continuity Editing
- Jump Cuts
- Editing In Practice, Visual Literacy
- In The Blink of an Eye (Walter Murch)
- Software – DaVinci Resolve
- Color Correction and Grading
- "Fixing it in Post"
- Final Cut
🏆 Distribution
- Film Festivals
- Streaming Platforms
- YouTube and Independent Filmmaking
❗ 🎬 Practical Experience: Completion of short film with class group!
📌 Additional Resources
- List of films to watch
- Technical Flash Cards
- List of books to read
- List of online resources
- Recommendations for basic equipment
❗ All necessary technical equipment will be provided for the production of the short film, including camera, lens, lighting and audio ❗

Schedule: 2x Weekly, 25 lectures x 2 hours each (3 months)
Price: 400BGN/Month for 3 Months

📣 Asparuh Frangov is a film director and visual artist based in Sofia 🇧🇬 and Houston, Texas 🇺🇸 . His first no-budget short film "The Address" (2016) was selected as part of the 14th In The Palace International Short Film Festival (2016/17, an Oscar-qualifying festival) and screened in four cities across Bulgaria, as well as in the US as part of Bedford Falls Film Festival (2020). His second film, "A Shadow Confined" - a loose adaptation of Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" - was selected for and won accolades in three festivals worldwide in 2020: CineLibri (Sofia, Bulgaria - Special Jury Prize), Neo-South IFF (Johor Bahru, Malaysia - Best Short Film, Best Direction, Best Cinematography), and MICEA'20 (San Juan, Puerto Rico - Special Jury Prize).
His third short film, Schroedinger's Man (2024) in currently in pre-production and has won financing from the Bulgarian National Film Center.
Asparuh was also part of the Youth Jury of the 19th Sofia International Film Festival (SIFF) and interned at the Bulgarian National Film Archive. He has worked on many other films and productions as a crew member - most recently as the director of the BTS documentary of the feature film Block (2023) (now in cinemas), as well as in the editing of the film, in the art department for The Wheels of Heaven (2023, in postproduction) and Mirror Touch (2022, Short) and as the production designer for Mihaela Fileva's music video - "Obseben"

🙏A huge THANK YOU to all of you who joined us last Friday! It was a great presentation and first lecture of our course, and in front of such a large and loving audience! 🎬👏

⚠ Keep in mind that this is the LAST WEEK to sign up for our Spring 2023 Filmmaking Class! SEATS ARE LIMITED! Sign up at The Apartment Апартамента. Make sure to mention which days are most convenient for you! 📝 If you have any questions or concerns, give us a call at +359876926047

🎬Come join us TOMORROW, Friday, May 5th, at 7PM, for a brief presentation and a FREE first lecture on the eternal question: "What is Cinema?"​

📢Join our Spring 2023 Filmmaking Class @ The Apartment Апартамента - in English!

More info on the event and our class here: https://fb.me/e/UHluDj2y

It's not too late to join our Spring 2023 Filmmaking Class @ The Apartment Апартамента - in English! Come join us this Friday, May 5th, at 7PM, for a brief presentation and a free first lecture on the eternal question: "What is Cinema?".

More info on the event and our class here: https://fb.me/e/UHluDj2y

FILMMAKING CLASSES @ The Apartment Апартамента - NOW IN ENGLISH! 🇬🇧

🗣 Learn about cinema while practicing your English! 🗣

Two classes available for this spring! Sign up here before March 31st ---> https://forms.gle/oHGoSe9CBj2ZFLmG7

📅 Twice Weekly, for Three Months (April, May & June) at The Apartment (68 Neofit Rilski str.)
🔖 400 BGN per Month

1️⃣ Class 1: Auteur Cinema, led by Daniela Ngoato (Scriptwriter & Director)
✔️ Fundamentals & History of Film
✔️ Writing a Script and Translating it Into a Visual Story
✔️ Directing Actors & Camera
✔️ Editing
And much more...

2️⃣ Class 2: Indie Filmmaking, led by Asparuh Frangov (Director & Visual Artist)
📽️ Part One: History & Theory
✔️ What is Cinema?
✔️ Evolution of Film - From Silent Films to Today
✔️ Independent Films (Versus Studio Pictures)
✔️ Cinema as an Art Form
📽️ Part Two: Making Films
✔️ Lights, Camera & Action
✔️ Working Without a Budget
✔️ Making Your Film From Start to Finish!

Everything you need to know to make your film! Tips about funding, finding cast, crew and the whole filmmaking process.

Upon completion, students receive a certificate and additional learning materials.
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Full Course Outlines Below:
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1️⃣ Class 1: Auteur Cinema (led by Daniela Ngoato)

🎥 Defining the art of filmmaking through a brief history of film, theory and practical experience.

📝 Step-by-step breakdown in creating a story and translating it into a visual narrative. Essential techniques in writing a screenplay.

✌️ Guidance with creating your own script on paper and then through the camera.

⚔️ Instructions on how to watch films and critique them effectively.

🎬 What is Film:
~ Starting from a single frame and its impact.
~ Taking still photographs through the use of:
framing,
shot composition,
mis- en-scène,
evoking an emotion,
visual storytelling

📽 A brief history of Cinema:
~ Eadweard Muybridge- creating movement.
~ Thomas Edison - voyeurism.
~ The Lumiere brothers.
~The theory of montage through Pudovkin, Eisenstein and Griffith.
~ Cinematography with the techniques of Orsen Wells.
~ The directorial techniques of Alfred Hitchcock.

🦹‍♀️ Roles in Cinema:
~ Producer.
~ Coordinator.
~ Location Manager.
~ Director.
~ Director of Photography.
~ Camera Operator.
~ Scriptwriter and Script Coordinator.
~ Hair, make-up and Costume.
~ Set design and set decoration.
~ Editor.
~ Sound mixer and Sound editor.
~ Composer.

📝 How is a script written?
~ What is its purpose?
~ Exploring the different types of scripts in their genres.
~ Three-act structure.
~ Examining contemporary scriptwriters and directors (Diablo Cody, Kubrick, Spielberg, Cameron, Andres Heinz, Neil Blomkamp, Oliver Hermanus, and many more.)

🎥 Transitioning from paper to camera:
~ Working with camera and lighting.
~ Directing actors and camera.
~ Set design and costume.
~ Editing a film.
~ Sound design and music.

📋 The different stages of Film Production:
Pre-production:
~ Drafting a Production schedule.
~ Drafting a shooting schedule.
~ Storyboarding.
~ Casting.
~ Forming the team.

🗒️ Production: ~ Grouping shooting days.
~ Protocols on set.
~ Hierarchy.
~ Three-point lighting and diverting from it.
~ The 180-degree rule.
~ Saving footage protocols.
~ Tips and tricks with recording sound.

🖥️ Post-production:
~ Tempo.
~ Style.
~ Developing an eye for editing.
~ Working with editing software.
~ Colour correction and how it changes the story.
~ Sound editing.
~ Music.

🏆Creating your own script and film with what we have learned:
~ Choosing a role.
~ Adapting more than one role.
~ Learning how to break the rules we learned.

⚔️ Training in analysing films:
~ How to watch the films of the professionals.
~ Defining the elements of another author’s story.
~ "Reading” a film.
~ Student Showcase.
~ Training in analysing other students’ work and your own.

Sign up here ---> https://forms.gle/oHGoSe9CBj2ZFLmG7
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2️⃣ Class 2: Indie Filmmaking (led by Asparuh Frangov)

🔑 The Golden Rule: Every Rule Can Be Broken

📜 What is Cinema?
- Mise-en-scene
- The Temporary Suspension of Disbelief
- Sculpting in Time

🎞️ Evolution of Film
1. Silent Film Era, Expressionism, Montage
2. "Classical Cinema", Studio Cinema, Advent of Synchronized Sound
3. Film Noir, Underground Cinema
4. The New Waves – Breaking the Rules
- Italian
- French
- Japan/India
5. New Hollywood – The New Wave in America
6. Independent Cinema – Cassavettes to Tarantino
7. Transcendental Cinema – Bresson, Bergman, Dreyer, Tarkovsky
9. Experimental Cinema – Maya Deren, Bunuel, Lynch, Lars von Trier and Dogme 95
10. Modern Cinema - Mainstream vs. Arthouse

🎥 Technical Aspects
1. Camera & Lens – How Do They Work?
- Frame Rate
- Exposure Triangle: Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO
- Film Formats and Digital Formats
- Aspect Ratios
- Focal Lengths, Lens Types
- Tripods, Dollies, Steadicams/Gimbals and Camera Movement
2. Lighting
- Basic Three-Point Lighting
- Shadows
- Color Temperature & Intensity, CRI
3. Sound
- Audio on Set
- Foley
4. People on Set, Who Does What?

✍️ Screenwriting, Pre-Production
- Ideas, Index Card Technique
- The Hero's Journey
- Plot vs. Story
- Basic Three-Act Structure
- Basic Formatting
- Storyboard
- Planning a Production, Casting
- Funding - Where and How?
- Pitching Forums
- Making Do With What You've Got

🎬 Directing & Cinematography
- Scenes and Set-ups
- Blocking a Scene
- 180 Degree Rule
- Insert Shots
- Left to Right
- The Five C's: Camera Angles, Continuity, Cutting, Close-Ups, Composition
- Directing Actors
- Pacing

🖥️ Editing & Post-Production
- Soviet Montage Theory, Kuleshov Effect
- Continuity Editing
- Jump Cuts
- Editing In Practice, Visual Literacy
- In The Blink of an Eye (Walter Murch)
- Software – DaVinci Resolve
- Color Correction and Grading
- "Fixing it in Post"
- Final Cut

🏆 Distribution
- Film Festivals
- Streaming Platforms
- YouTube and Independent Filmmaking

📌 Additional Resources
- List of films to watch
- Technical Flash Cards
- List of books to read
- List of online resources
- Recommendations for basic equipment

Sign up here ---> https://forms.gle/oHGoSe9CBj2ZFLmG7

Клас по сценарий и режисура “Auteur”

Какво включва?

🎥
Дефиниране на филмовото изкуство, чрез кратка история на киното, теория и практика.

📝
Стъпки в създаването на една история и трансформацията ѝ във визуален разказ.
Техники при писане на сценарии.

✌️
Създаване на собствен сценарий на хартия и след това чрез камера.

⚔️
Указания за аналитичен подход при гледане на филми.

📆
Тримесечен клас:
16.11. 2022 - 18.02. 2023
2 пъти седмично, по два часа:
Сряда 17:00 - 19:00;
Събота 10:30 - 12:30;
50 часа теория и практика в 25 посещения - 350лв. месечно.
Класът, е за 10 човека.

🔬
Програма на класа:

🎬
Какво е филм:
~ Кадрите, и как работят поединично.
~ Правене на снимки с прилагане на:
framing,
shot composition,
mis- en-scène,
предизвикване на емоции,
визуално разказване на история.

📽
История на Киното:
~ Едуард Майбридж - създване на движение.
~ Томас Едисън - вояризъм.
~ Братя Люмиер.
~Теорията на монтажа с идеите на Пудовкин, Айзенщайн и Грифит.
~ Кинематография с техниките на Орсън Уелс.
~ Режисурата на Хичкок.

🦹‍♀️
Ролите в киното:
~ Продуцент.
~ Координатор.
~ Мениджър на локация.
~ Режисьор.
~ Оператор.
~ Осветител.
~ Сценарист.
~ Грим, прическа и костюм.
~ Сценограф и дизайнер.
~ Монтажист.
~ Тонрежисьор.
~ Композитор.

📝
Как се пише сценарий?
~ Какво е значението му.
~ Изучаване на видовете сценарии в различните жанрове.
~ Три-актова структура.
~ Изучаване на съвременни сценаристи и режисьори (Диабло Коуди, Кубрик, Спилбърг, Камерон, Андре Хайнз, Нийл Бломкамп, Оливър Хърманъс и др.)

🎥
Как стигаме от хартия до камера:
~ Работа с камера и осветление.
~ Режисура на актьори и камера.
~ Сценография и костюм.
~ Монтиране на филм.
~ Звук и музика.

📋
Различните етапи във филмовата продукция:
Препродукция:
~ Изготвяне на график на продукциятя.
~ Изготвяне на график за снимане.
~ Storyboarding.
~ Кастинг.
~ Събиране на екип.

Продукция:
~ Групиране на снимачните дни.
~ Протоколи на снимачен ден.
~ Йерархия.
~ Триточково осветление и нарушаването му.
~ Правилото за 180-те градуса.
~ Запазване на кадри.
~ Запис на звук и трикове.

Постпродукция:
~ Темпо.
~ Стил.
~ Придобиване на усет към монтажа.
~ Практика с професионален софтуер.
~ Цветови корекции и как се променя историята.
~ Постпродукция на звук.
~ Музика.

🏆
Създаване на собствен сценарий и филм с наученото:
~ Избиране на роли.
~ Адаптиране на повече от една роля.
~ Определяне на позиция:
писател на сценарий,
режисьор,
оператор,
монтажист
или автор.
~ Опит в нарушаването на нормите от наученото.

⚔️ Обучение по анализ на филм:

~ Как да гледаме филмите на професионалистите.
~ Определяне на елементите в историята на друг автор.
~ "Четене" на филм.
~ Студентски Showcase.
~ Обучение по анализ на работата на другите в класа и собствената.

🎁Материали:

~ Списък с филми за гледане.
~ Достъп до филми от библиотеката на преподавателя.
~ Обучение с техника и софтуер
~ Хакове на правене на филми без техника.

👩‍🏫За преподавателя:

Даниела Ноуто е сценарист и режисьор с 10 годишен кинематографичен опит в България и ЮАР.
Бакалавър, с отличие по филм и телевизия от престижния университет WITS. в Йоханесбург.
Работила по късометражни, пълнометражни, документални филми, реклами и музикални клипове.
С проекти участвали във фестивала IDFA (Амстердам 2017г.), с филма "Kharon" и филм за подпомагане на благотворителни каузи "Карин дом" 2021г.

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