Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film
Finalizing the Pre-production Stage
A course by Iliès Terki , Film Director
About the video: Finalizing the Pre-production Stage
Overview
“In this lesson, we’ll take a look at some essential steps of pre-production such as shot lists and storyboards. I’ll also talk about some practical aspects of logistics and the mindset you need when it’s time to shoot.”
In this video lesson Iliès Terki addresses the topic: Finalizing the Pre-production Stage, 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
“Here we start with the most exciting part of the pre-production phase, which I think is the most critical and also for me as a director, the most exciting. which is breaking down your screenplay into a shortlist. Usually before starting with a shot list, I would go with a final review of my screenplay, Quickly, I'll go through some of the elements inside of that screenplay and check if all the details are matching our budget, our locations, and also, most importantly, if they are aligned within the vision that was described in the concept book. At this stage, it's not about the story anymor...”
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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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