Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film

Music and Sound

A course by Iliès Terki , Film Director

Film Director. Hamburg, Germany.
Joined May 2021
91% positive reviews (33)
2,506 students
Audio: English, Spanish (Latam), French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish
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About the video: Music and Sound

Overview

“People who are new to filmmaking tend to overlook music and sound. However, sound design is one of the most powerful creative devices available to convey emotion, and while it's often one of the last steps to shape your film, you should be thinking about it from the very beginning.”

In this video lesson Iliès Terki addresses the topic: Music and Sound, 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

“Every filmmaker is different. Some filmmakers use dialogue as their conceptual or artistic framework, and it's important for them to tell a story. But in my case, i think cinema is more powerful when it's acted, when it's behavior based. And for that, you don't need really dialogue. I mean, some of the best scenes in movies. are actually with minimal dialogue. Unless you are someone who is, as I said, especially gifted in writing dialogues, you should avoid For your first short, of course, that comes later. You can use it. when you grew up as a filmmaker, But I think at first it's good to s...”

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

  • Level: Beginner
  • 91% positive reviews (33)
  • 2506 students
  • 5 units
  • 18 lessons (2h 21m)
  • 9 downloads
  • Category

    Photography & Video
  • Software

    DaVinci Resolve
  • Areas

    Audiovisual Production, Film, Filmmaking, Script, Video

Iliès Terki

Iliès Terki
A course by Iliès Terki

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Film Director

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. Photography, and Video course by Iliès Terki

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)
  • 2,506 students