Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film
Location Scouting
A course by Iliès Terki , Film Director
About the video: Location Scouting
Overview
“In indie filmmaking, the filming location poses a special challenge because you can’t invest huge sums of money to block off a certain place or get a special permit. The best thing to do when approaching the topic of location is to try and gain as much control as possible and minimize the factors of unpredictability. That’s why planning in advance is key.”
In this video lesson Iliès Terki addresses the topic: Location Scouting, 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
“ Location Scouting Talking about locations. Locations are overlooked all the time, even by me. When I work on a project, I always imagine a situation and when I go there to the location, I have another situation. That's a common thing when working on an indie film project. You don't have the money to block a street or traffic, so you have to work with what you have. The most important thing to do when you look for a location is that you have the most control. If you're shooting in the middle of a street, you won't have control, unless your story is about a character who is lost in traffic ...”
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Course summary for: Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film
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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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