Presentation of work from Cinema cent ans de jeunesse

1. What do children learn from
making very short films?
Mark Reid, BFI
18 April 2016

2. Le Cinema, cent
ans de jeunesse
• Since 1995
• Cinémathèque Française
• ‘a question of cinema’
• Formal and aeshetic properties
• Watching and making together
• Authenticity of children’s view

3. ‘to look more closely’
Scott Noppe-Brandon

4. The Long Take
Typology
60+ clips
3 Exercises
Final ‘Film Essai’

5. Several varieties of long take
• Long takes and… physical performance Sherlock Jr.
• Deep focus: two scenes at the same time Citizen Kane
• Decoupage: several scenes in one take The Player
• Long takes and.… jeopardy Rope
• The existential long take Stalker
Alasdair Satchel’s Youtube channel: Understanding Cinema

6. Where it all started: Lumiere Brothers

7. Exercise 1: Lumiere minutes
Each participant will film a minute of material in
the manner of the Lumiere Brothers. The shot will
be from a fixed position, lasting one minute and
include the sounds recorded on location at the
time of filming. The ‘minute’ can be filmed either
inside or outside. Choose a place, a subject, a
moment, and record it, without influencing
anything in the shot.
All participants, including teachers, film-makers,
and cultural partners should make a Lumiere
minute.

8. Tower Hamlets Long Takes

9. .. And some reflections..

10. .. And some reflections..
The question of ‘the moment’ – the ‘three moments’ that they
capture
The ‘typology’: which type of Lumiere film is it? Multi-action?
Horizontally composed? Using the ‘z axis’? Using off-screen space?
What do they notice? The question of finding drama in everyday
life – ‘the natural things we don’t plan our reveal more drama
than the things we do plan out’

11. Long take – short film
At a certain moment a character or characters have
an encounter which troubles them.
Create a film around the provocation above which
includes several long takes. The film can be edited
together, including elements of montage if you wish.
Final length 7 minutes. In one of the Long Takes the
camera must forget the character or characters and
become autonomous, following another path, and
then finding the character or characters again.
This section should create an emotional response in
the viewer

12. Long take - prep
https://markreid1895.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/mile-
end-track-and-dolly/

13. Long take – final film
https://markreid1895.wordpress.co
m/2014/05/23/thames-final-film/

14. THOUGHTS AND QUESTIONS?
• What realities are being discovered by the children making
these films?
• What are they learning to see differently, or more clearly?
• What kinds of truth are they achieving?
• How is film, and film-making, educating them?

15. More information
www.cinematheque.fr/cinema100ansdejeunesse/en/
http://markreid1895.wordpress.com