Class Advanced Workshop in Film Directing

This course focuses on monitoring the development of skills in filmmaking, emphasizing the development of short fiction film projects. Led by different instructors, it promotes an integrated and critical approach to the creative, technical, and conceptual processes inherent in filmmaking. The aim is for students to consolidate, develop, and refine their formal and meaningful resources, exploring strategies in staging, directing actors, narrative construction, and audiovisual language. The course encourages the application of aesthetic and historical contexts, as well as the establishment of consistent relationships between theoretical reflection and artistic practice, materialized in the conception and realization of short films.

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Develop critical thinking about the creative process Articulate artistic creation and productive viability Understand filmmaking as a collective endeavor Consolidate technical, narrative, and organizational skills Prepare students for real-world professional contexts

This course unit is characterized by the adoption of an active methodology, centered on the student and oriented towards progressive autonomy in the process of carrying out the projects in production, observing the individual areas of interest of the students, promoting the definition and adaptation of their work objectives, under the guidance and continuous monitoring of the teachers assigned to the discipline.

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