The third term started and we just want to do our best again.
The third term started and we just want to do our best again. Since the start of April Tim joined us, he is a selffinanzed Volunteer who will write his master thesis about the Aim. Movie Workshop. Because of the time he needs for this he decided to participate in the Ayensudo Workshop with Lois. Lois and I will do the Atawasi workshop. With Tim we also got a totally new concept and a lot of new ideas. The term already started two weeks ago and we already had two meetings in both schools. I can only speak for the Atawasi Workshop, but here and in Ayensudo we will roll the same concept, only small differences.
Because of the size of the group we had to think how we can manage to do selfdone camerawork with only three cameras. So we have three groups of Filming, one Photography, and one Dolly- building –group (each 6 participants). The Film groups should work out an idea for a short clip, they should film it themselves and edit with us. The Photography group should make mostly the same, but at the end they should work on a Photo spread. The Dolly Group should build a machine to make camera drive.
At first of the workshop we repeated the important camera rules (don’t run with the camera, wear the camera belt, don´t touch the lens, don´t fight for the camera etc.), after this they did different camera exercises. In this the participants should learn how to handle the camera, so we will also show them on some example shots of them, what is good and on what they have to work, so at the end they could shoot their clip best. This exercise will continue for another two meetings and then they have to find a topic and work out an idea for their clip. The Dolly group under the view of Lois got different material and a budget to build a dolly. But at first they had to find out what a dolly is and what it is good for, with text and photo material. Then they did different sketches how they could build a dolly with given material and some they have to buy. For now we could see that the participants are really interested in the different exercises. We are sure we want to give everything we can to give them a lot on their way.
Let’s have a look:
