Second- year Creative Editing workshop

This workshop is part of a series of developing workshops on various aspects, rules and conventions of film editing in the second year of the course. The students are asked for a creative response and develop understanding by experimental creative input.

The workshops are specifically designed for students who either are new to filmmaking or do not have much editing experience. The tool aims to increase the user’s awareness of this creative aspect of production. The objective is to improve decision-making, understanding of film language and the potential use of sound and image juxtaposition, with the intention being that students can apply this knowledge to their own work.

The workshop is designed to act as a stand-alone piece on DVD; where the user completes a series of creative tasks in their own time. The workshop also works as a shared experience and students learn by peer reviewing each other’s work.

After the completion of each workshop a review of student’s results serves as a bridge to the next workshop.

Second-year Sound workshop

Building on the basis of the first-year sound workshop, the students are asked in their second year to very quickly construct a complete, multi-layered soundtrack to an existing animation film extract.

The aim is to experiment with the various building stones of a soundtrack and to understand their interaction with the picture and among themselves. Timing, contrasts, synchronicity with the image, layering of different types of sounds – environments, spot elements, voices, music – those are some of the tools used to organise a choreography of sounds to bring the image to life and to immerse the viewer in the film's universe.