Practice

Teacher: Virginia García del Pino

Objectives: To provide students with the necessary tools to learn how to develop their own projects. These tutorials are conceived as a workshop in which practical exercises are carried out (writing and filmmaking) that are related to the topics proposed by the students. The students work individually and in groups, presenting the results in class, creating a space for discussion and reflection on the cinematographic form.
It is an open space in which the idea, script and audiovisual treatment are worked on so that the projects grow into a possible film. Since the Master will produce some of these projects, students are asked to adapt their ideas to the geographical framework of Barcelona or nearby towns. Once these ideas are developed, the workshop is focused on developing them into a professional dossier and a teaser (promotional video) so that students learn how to present their future projects to the industry.

Duration: 44 hours (4-hour sessions per week).

Profesor: Ander Barinaga- Rementeria

Objectives: To analyze the phases that the documentary producer has to face throughout the value chain in order to establish the bases of audiovisual production that allow sizing documentary projects in their development phase and seek sources of financing to produce them, paying special attention to the normative and regulatory framework.

Contents

• Situation of the audiovisual market.
• The value chain.
• Display windows.
• Formats and distribution models.
• Project/target identification.
• Types of audiences and niches.
• The idea and the development.
• Contracts: chain of title.
• Budget and cost recognition.
• Sources of financing.
  • Public financing

Principle of intensity limit

• Public subsidies / direct aid
  • Creative Europe: MEDIA
  • Eurimages
  • Ibermedia Program
  • ICAA
  • ICEC
• Tax incentives (art. 36 LIS)

• Private financing
  • TV Channels/Platforms (5%/6% obligation).
  • Co-producers (agreements, project approval, etc.).
  • Capitalization of resources.
  • MG distributors and sales agents.
  • Private investors.
  • Sale of rights.
  • Secondary rights.
  • Sponsorships/Product Placement.
• Payment schedule / discounts

• Administrative procedures:
  • Registration in the Administrative Registry of Cinematographic and Audiovisual Companies of the ICAA.
  • Notification of start and end of filming.
  • Qualification by age groups.
  • Certificate of Spanish nationality.
  • Approval of co-production projects.
• Sources of information.
• Legal forms of the business project.

Duration: 8 hours (2 sessions of 4 hours).

Profesoras: Vanesa Fernández, Virginia García del Pino y Ander Barinaga-Rementeria.

Objectives: This workshop is oriented to the production design of a documentary film. It is intended to train students to be able to know the different production processes and to reach sectors of cultural, educational, social and economic life, and also to be able to manage them, i.e. to know the markets, sources of financing, production control tools, distribution methods, etc.
In this way, students will have to prepare a complete production dossier and thus acquire the necessary knowledge required in a documentary project, from the creation of the contents to the design and execution of the aesthetic, narrative and technical aspects involved. Special importance will be given to the presentation and communication of the projects (the dossier, the preparation of the pitching), since this constitutes one of the central factors of its viability.

Duration: 16 hours (4 sessions of 4 hours each).

Teachers: Amanda Villavieja and Carlos Muñoz

Objectives: In documentary it is necessary to learn good theoretical and historical concepts, but as an artistic discipline it also needs a technical team. Learning how to handle technical equipment provides the tools for resolution and the most important thing: freedom and independence.
The programmed camera and sound workshops are aimed at learning the handling and care of the cameras and sound equipment available in the master’s program. Thus, this course will alternate mornings or afternoons spread over different days of the calendar, with theoretical and practical classes focused on the use of technical equipment.

Consult complete program of camera practices.
Consult complete program of sound practices.

Duration: 12 hours (3 sessions of 4 hours each) in the case of sound practices and 8 hours in the case of camera practices, since the hours of out-of-class exercises are not counted.

Professor: Nila Núñez Urgell

Objectives: To provide students with basic knowledge of editing programs so that they can prepare preliminary assemblies of their projects.

See the complete program for these sessions.

Duration: 12 hours (3 sessions of 4 hours each)

Teacher: Miguel Ángel Martín

Objectives: To achieve skill and ability in the communication of our projects. The pitching technique is becoming more and more popular in the project selection process. Production companies, institutions, markets have replaced the old script reading cabinets for pitching sessions, where filmmakers compete to capture the attention of producers through the direct exposure/sale of their ideas. Therefore, in the workshop it is key to deepen the communication, power and clarity of the students’ proposals for their presentation in a pitching session organized by the master’s program and convened by a panel of professionals and academics.

Duration: 13 hours (3 sessions of 4 hours each and 1 session of 1 hour of final evaluation after the pitching).

Professors: Virginia García del Pino, Carolina Astudillo and Andrés Duque.

Objectives: to guide students in the making of documentaries, solving any doubts and problems they may face. They are contemplated as an accompaniment in the different phases of the film, from the previous script to the final editing. Acting as a kind of mediator between the students’ intentions and the reality they face.

Duration: 35 hours (variable duration per session)

Teachers:

Objectives: during the second half of the course there will be a constant monitoring of the projects of each of the groups. Personalized classes to help students maintain a good level of sound and photography in their work. Once the project has started, they will receive advice, but also during the shooting itself, where they will be accompanied in person in order to provide technical and artistic support.

Duration: 24 hours per group, 12 hours of camera tutoring and another 12 hours of sound (duration of the session varies depending on whether the tutoring is a class review of recorded material or accompaniment during filming).

Objectives: To teach how to make the filming plan of the documentary to be made by the students. To learn how to organize the recording material. To establish a schedule for the delivery and return of the equipment to the master. To elaborate the budget of the documentary. To know the different authorizations for image and sound, minors, photographs, bibliographic material, music, etc. All these logistical and administrative skills are combined with creativity, understood as the significant intervention in artistic aspects, which is inherent to the producer’s job.

Duration: 5 hours per group (variable sessions).