Location scouting. Photo: Rene Georg

Students (and elves!) shooting a Christmas Advent. Photo: Rene Georg

On shoot. Photo: Rene Georg.

Cinematography excercise. Photo: Rene Georg.

Cameras ready. Photo: Rene Georg.

Shooting Games
By the second week of semester, you will already know the equipment and your fellow students quite well because you will have been through Shooting Games. Highly entertaining and very educational – Shooting Games will give you the chance to function as director, writer, editor, cameraman, sound person and actor – you will, in other words, try the various roles in a film crew through a very intense introduction period.

3-Minute Project
You will be given a location, charachter descriptions and a short story line.
The subject will be presented to you in proper time before the production begins.
The aim will be through strict rules and obstacles to strengthen your ability to focus on the key elements in narration: Charachter, conflict and universe.
You will cast actors, draw storyboard and prepare your films in crews in which all key functions are represented.

The EFC faculty will choose the crews.

5-Minute Project
Before the Christmas break, you will make a music video with a maximum duration of 5 minutes. The subject and constraints will be presented to you in good time before the production starts. You will have 12 days to make the 3-minute project.
The aim is to enable you to sharpen your aesthetic eye, work with set design, create abstract narratives, and experience working with artists representing other art forms. The music videos will be based on the music of a specific artist, and the artist will use the best films as official videos for an upcoming album. The artist must have a new album in the pipeline, they must sing in English, and they must be able to participate in a number of videos.
The EFC faculty will choose the crews.

7-Minute Documentary
In the spring you will get the chance to make a documentary with a maximum length of 7.5 minutes. If you plan to make a documentary, you are advised to start the process of research, development and discussion in January. Eventually, 20 projects will be chosen from the submitted scripts and ideas. You will have 21 days to make the documentary.
The aim is that students work in small crews in which they research, prepare, shoot and edit their story. They must find stories that will develop the students as storytellers, that teach them to manage sources and set an agenda, and that provide insights into life and contemporary society.
Students will choose the crews themselves.

TV-project
While half of the students are making documentaries – the other half is making a unique TV-format and broadcast.
The 50-person team will create a show from scratch. The EFC studio will be rebuilt and the hosts and writers will be picked, while the floor manager and set designer are creating magic on the set.
The project will culminate with a daily live show – transmitted from the studio to our cinema, Big Bear. The TV-project will produce a minimum of 4 30-minute shows and
will take 21 days in total.
The aim is that the students learn the complex and exciting production form that multi-camera offers. They will have hands on every aspect of the production – they will mimic a full-scale professional production and they will have daily deadlines and broadcasts. This will ensure that they learn the precise TV-format in which they will use ENG, VTR, news-segments, comedy and cutting edge themes that reflect the agenda of the modern world.
Students will choose the crews themselves.

8½ -Minute Projects
The 8½-minute Project is your own film. You make it in your spare time on the weekends.
Here you have every chance to experiment and make the weirdest and strangest film ever produced.
You can also choose to do an adaptation, a remake or a music video. Play with the medium; challenge yourself and your crew.
The maximum length is 8½ minutes.
The rules and regulations will be available before the semester starts in September.
The students can start preparing their 10-minute production when they arrive at the EFC.
The aim is that the students get a chance to create a film independently. They will receive help and coaching from the faculty, but they will control the entire production – from concept to premiere – in the crews.
The 8½-minute project is the only project for which the students can choose the language used in the film – all other productions are in English.
The only demand from the EFC is that the 8½-minute production does not contain propaganda material for illegal affairs, pornography or offensive material out of the context of the story.
Students will choose the crews themselves.

Final Project (10-minute project)
The prestigious Final Projects will conclude your 34-week stay at the EFC. The maximum length of the Final Project is 10 minutes.
Students are invited to submit scripts of their own (maximum 2 scripts per student) and, from the submitted scripts, 15 fiction and 2-3 documentaries are selected and produced. The process starts in February, and along the way you will be tutored and coached by the faculty and guests from the film business.
You will have 28 days to make the Final Projects, followed by a week of evaluation and maybe some postproduction depending on the evaluation.
The aim of the Final Project is to give the students the ultimate calling card for a job, a further education course or a film festival. They can take advantage of a proper budget, a longer production period and the chance to make a film that the EFC will promote and send to major film events around the world.
The stories must be original material, the production must be created by EFC-students, and external help is only permitted for requirements that the EFC cannot fulfill due to personal or economical issues.
Students will choose the crews themselves.