Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film

Arriving on Location

A course by Iliès Terki , Film Director

Film Director. Hamburg, Germany.
Joined May 2021
91% positive reviews (33)
2,444 students
Audio: English
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About the video: Arriving on Location

Overview

“Whether it’s indoors or outdoors, when you arrive at your location, there are some basics to cover. Here I’ll show you what I did when I arrived at my chosen location. ”

In this video lesson Iliès Terki addresses the topic: Arriving on Location, 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

“ Arriving on Location Every project is different. Sometimes you shoot outside. Sometimes you shoot inside. Depending on the space you're shooting in, there are basics to cover. In our case, we're shooting outside. We are dealing with different variables like the sun and light. Also, it's a public space, it has different... We are not allowed to block the whole neighborhood, so people are passing, moving. You have to have a feeling for the location and to check everything's fine. You have to check your cast or your actor, in our case, safety is not an issue because he's just sitting on a pu...”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.


Course summary for: Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film

  • Level: Beginner
  • 91% positive reviews (33)
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  • 5 units
  • 18 lessons (2h 21m)
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    Audiovisual Production, Film, Filmmaking, Script, Video

Iliès Terki

Iliès Terki
A course by Iliès Terki

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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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Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film

A course by Iliès Terki
Film Director. Hamburg, Germany.
Joined May 2021
  • 91% positive reviews (33)
  • 2,444 students