Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film
How to Find a Good Short Story
A course by Iliès Terki , Film Director
About the video: How to Find a Good Short Story
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll show you my approach to finding a good story idea. I’ll talk about the importance of reading and paying attention, the role of meticulous research, and why it’s preferable to start from a story idea and not a script. ”
In this video lesson Iliès Terki addresses the topic: How to Find a Good Short Story, which is part of the Domestika online course: Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film. Learn how to write, shoot, and post-produce a meaningful short film using minimum resources.
Partial transcription of the video
“ How to Find a Good Short Story How to tell a good story or find a good idea for a good story is tied to your creative process. In my process, I have set up what I call an inspirational platform. This comes from a set of habits that I've built over the years. It's hard to teach a habit. You have to build your own, but I'll show you how it works for me. For me, the most important thing to set up your own inspiration platform is to be able to first, pay attention. If you are checking your phone all the time, that's hard, as smartphones hijack your attention and you don't pay attention to the...”
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Course summary for: Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film
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Audiovisual Production, Film, Filmmaking, Script, Video
Iliès Terki
A course by Iliès Terki
Iliès Terki is an Algerian-born film director based in Hamburg, and the founder of his own creative studio, which specializes in short-form fiction. He started his career as a cover designer in the music industry before going on to study communications and visual arts in Madrid and Paris. He later studied art direction in Hamburg and New York, and went on to work in an advertising agency, where he was introduced to high-end filmmaking and realized it was what he wanted to pursue. Iliès began experimenting with filmmaking in his spare time and, in 2015, quit his job to launch his career in the art form.
Since then, Iliès has established his own studio, Idle Films, which has produced a series of 52 fiction stories and small vignettes. He has also worked with brands including adidas, BMW, Renault, Netflix Germany, UNICEF, Penguin Random House, and Haribo.
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