Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film
How Pre-production Helps You
A course by Iliès Terki , Film Director
About the video: How Pre-production Helps You
Overview
“The production phase is rather short and can be hectic: that’s when all the tools and materials we prepared in pre-production help us. Low-budget filmmakers can not afford to figure things out during the shoot. So, if you did your "homework" during the pre-production phase, the filming becomes the easiest step of the process.”
In this video lesson Iliès Terki addresses the topic: How Pre-production Helps You, 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
“So how do you use all the tools that you put together in your pre-production phase during your shoot? During the production phase. I think there's really no secret. It's all about how much you worked. So the more you spend time preparing your concept book, the more you spend time understanding your story, the more you spend time understanding the vision that you want to convey for the audience. When you are producing, those things are printed in the back of your mind. They just come. As intuition. There's no other secret. Really? That's just... part of the Intuition, and intuition is someth...”
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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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