Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film
Communicating with the Talent
A course by Iliès Terki , Film Director
About the video: Communicating with the Talent
Overview
“During the shoot, you as a director will have to wear different hats and might find yourself in stressful situations. In this lesson, I’ll explain why it’s important to keep this all to the side when communicating with the actors in order to get them into the right emotional space for their performance. ”
In this video lesson Iliès Terki addresses the topic: Communicating with the Talent, 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
“I think one of the biggest challenge of indie filmmaking is that as you've seen it maybe during this short project we are making. is that obviously as a director you're handling different situations, you get stressed, but the actor is just working on his action. So he's trying to figure out what it is he has to do. And he doesn't care about your technical problems. He just cares about what kind of emotional space he needs to be in in order to deliver the best performance. Yeah, you have a first action is the music. You come get the cake and then you have a second thought, oh, maybe I can pu...”
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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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