Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film
Creating the Vision for Your Short
A course by Iliès Terki , Film Director
About the video: Creating the Vision for Your Short
Overview
“It isn't easy to get everyone involved in making a film, but it's even more challenging to make people align with your vision. As a director, it's your role to convey the story's vision to your stakeholders, collaborators, and actors — your script alone may not do the job. For that, you need to develop a thoughtful document and use it both as a communication tool and a pitch deck designed to help you solidify trust in your vision in order to bring this idea to life.”
In this video lesson Iliès Terki addresses the topic: Creating the Vision for Your Short, 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
“ Creating the Vision for Your Short You were lucky enough, you have your script and story ready. You are passionate about that idea, that's what you want to do. Now is the moment to bring people together and align everyone that wants to help you to make that story happen, to make them align with your vision. A script is a blueprint, it is very important, but usually, it's not enough to show all the moods, the look and feel that your story has or needs to have. The script structures the story in terms of action and drama, but in the end, what we watch is a series of pictures. It's helpful t...”
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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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