Moving Image: A 3-month (72-hour) Digital Filmmaking Course in Bangalore Indiranagar – Fiction and Nonfiction Storytelling Using Moving Images
FLUX offers Moving Image: A 3-month (72-hour) Digital Filmmaking Course in Bangalore Indiranagar via fiction and nonfiction storytelling using moving images. The 2nd batch of the course starts on Monday, 23rd August 2021 and runs for a duration of 3 months.
Storytelling and Its Visual Comprehension
It is often said that fact (reality) is stranger than fiction. However, reality is also richer than fiction.
Perhaps, we think of reality as strange because it unfolds in ways that we seldom comprehend, let alone control.
That is where storytelling comes in. Despite all our material progress, we humans have always depended on storytelling for our collective emotional progress.
Why you get irritated by traffic?
What makes you like a particular song?
Why did something happen to you?
The logical answers to several such questions may lie in a string of facts. But the emotional and psychological answers that we really need to feel a sense of balance in life come from stories.
Art deals with telling those stories.
Our brain comprehends the visual perception in the easiest and the fastest way. Therefore visual storytelling can be the most popular approach to emotional comprehension.
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Fiction and Documentary (Non-fiction) Digital Filmmaking Course in Bangalore Indiranagar
Film making can be broadly classified as “fiction” and “non-fiction”, much like books can be. And within each of these, there are sub-categories or genres. Lagaan and Citizen Kane are fictional films, sometimes referred to as “feature films” or “movies”. Money Heist , Scam 1992, Little Things or “Crime Patrol” are also fictional but we call them “web series/ “serials”. “An Inconvenient Truth”, “Period – End of Sentence” and “Vivek (Reason)” are non-fictional films. We refer to them as “documentaries”. But Survivor or Explained or Planet Earth or Cosmos are non-fictional series which are colloquially referred to as “docu series”. And then, there are the modern-day phenomena with the name of “reality shows”. Examples are Indian Idol, Real Housewives, Bigg Boss or Roadies which blur the distinction between fiction and non-fiction.
Regardless of the genre or name we give them, what connects all of these is story and magic. Magic, because a filmmaker, regardless of the format or medium, is essentially creating an illusion for the viewer.
Non-fiction Filmmaking:
This was originally intended to use moving images to simply document reality. And they did it primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record. But by now this now-ubiquitous genre has come a long way. It has spawned sub-genres of its own – educational, observational, and even “docufiction” and “reality TV”. In the beginning, though, documentary films were often just a minute or less in length. They were appropriately named “actuality” films.
A Huge Leap
Fiction Filmmaking:
Fictional films were only an afterthought in the history of cinema. It’s rather ironic, given the place that fictional films or movies occupy in our current collective consciousness and popular culture. So much so that when we hear the word “cinema”, we often think of fictional films!
Challenges in The Digital Filmmaking Process
Art of any kind – individual or communal – is demanding as a creative process in itself. The process of digial filmmaking is also riddled with a host of challenges. Most of such challenges, though, are unique to this art form. Some of them, in fact, make any other field of art seem like a cakewalk. The process includes from settling on a team until distributing the finished film to the intended audience. In fact every step of this process is replete with creative, practical, financial and logistical hurdles. They can cripple even the most seasoned filmmakers.
The primary preoccupation of the filmmaker, sometimes consciously but mostly sub-consciously, is to create magic. But there is a whole host of challenges in making that happen. That is because it is essentially a process of orchestrating the expectations of the viewer.
And this is true equally of fiction and non-fiction digial filmmaking with a few mutually exclusive differences between the two. For example, there are no “retakes” in the reality that non-fiction filmmaking invests itself primarily in capturing.
Compromises in The Filmmaking Process
No wonder most filmmakers go through the non-creative process. It is at least half – if not a lot more – of the entire filmmaking process. This process generates the attitude “ends justify the means”. It makes this particular art form a lot more vulnerable. Vulnerable to the perils of developing and then widening a disconnect with the creative integrity of the filmmaker! It may very well creep all the way into the final film. Moreover it could also reflect in the highly compromised process through which that final film emerges.
We live in a world where several human systems of social organization are failing. We had once thought of them as timeless solutions for harmonious human coexistence. Lately, those have revealed unprecedented cracks in them. Add to this the worst human crisis of all time, namely the climate crisis. In fact we are standing on the precipice of unprecedented social change. In the face of failing capitalism, diseased democracies and incessant global weather crises, art can no longer stay immune. And filmmaking especially can’t.
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Filmmaking is full of potential for social conditioning and change. From there It follows that it can be equally fulfilling. It better be! It’s because the process of filmmaking is quite an arduous one. It is also human labor, time and resource intensive. All these resources combine to make each film project a relatively more expensive enterprise than most other art forms. That is why the common moniker, “commercial art”, goes with filmmaking. Therefore, the film industry embodies this conflict between art and commerce very acutely. It does so much more contentiously and palpably than most other art forms.
Present Era Complications
And this energy and focus on reaching audiences gets more complicated in the present era. This era associates with acute attention deficiency on the part of audiences everywhere, thanks to smartphones and social media. A highly elaborate and expensive combination of technology, social media may have limited our options to use them freely. However, that same technology has brought storytelling within the reach of unlimited masses. And therein lies a silver lining amidst the dark clouds!
Moving Image: A 3-month (72-hour) Digital Filmmaking Course in Bangalore Indiranagar – Fiction and Nonfiction Storytelling Using Moving Images
Moving Image is a digital filmmaking course in Bangalore Indiranagar offered by FLUX. This course recognizes the basic truth of filmmaking which is that it is fundamentally visual storytelling using moving images. This course will concern itself with this core value. And it employs the art and craft of moving images to provide you with an experience. It’s an experience that can transform the way you look at the world around you. It can also change the way you feel about filmmaking.
We are aware that filmmakers with their cast and crew often make compromises. And they compromise with the same virtues espoused in their own films’ stories. They do so time and again during the making of those very stories into films. In contrast to this status quo, Moving Image will offer you ways to try and avoid that discord. It is that same discord between the noble intentions of our films and reality of collective actions that create them.
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Join Moving Image: A 3-month (72-hour) Digital Filmmaking Course in Bangalore Indiranagar – Fiction and Nonfiction Storytelling Using Moving Images. You will learn a new process, unique in itself. You also have an option of choosing any number of electives in case you wish to go deeper into them.
The 2nd batch of this course begins on August 23, 2021.
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