Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film
Building a Squad and Getting Feedback
A course by Iliès Terki , Film Director
About the video: Building a Squad and Getting Feedback
Overview
“While crew members are hired, squad members are stakeholders. In this lesson, I'll explain why it’s essential to work with a squad when it comes to independent filmmaking and what are the five core skills your collaborators should have. ”
In this video lesson Iliès Terki addresses the topic: Building a Squad and Getting Feedback, 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
“ Building a Squad and Getting Feedback One of the goals of this class is to demystify the filmmaking process. Usually, film directors and their role are overrated. Your role is to lead the project but you need to do it with people. Building a squad is a key element and it's also like a mindset. Do you consider your collaborators as a hired team, or do you consider your collaborators as part of one squad? The difference between squad and crew is squads are stakeholders and crew members are people you hire. I would say there are five core skills to look for in your squad. The first one is ma...”
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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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