Shooting a music video. Photo: Nicolai Lok

Location scouting. Photo: Rene Georg

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

Shooting Games
Highly entertaining and educational, Shooting Games is the activity that gives you a taste of the major functions in a film crew, without experiencing the “real life” pressure of the filmmaking. During the Games, you will have the chance to briefly experience the role of a director, writer, editor, cameraman, production manager, sound person and actor. You will in other words try the various functions of a film crew through a very intense and fun introduction period.

Course exercise
At the end of each course period you will work on a 90 seconds course exercise. The aim is to practice knowledge and skills taught during the course and to work on one common vision together with a crew. An evaluation of the process will conclude each course exercise. The EFC faculty will put together the crews.

4-Minute Project – Fiction
After the second course period, you will make 15 4-minute films. EFC will provide you with a location.
The pedagogical aim of the project is to strengthen the students’ ability to focus on the key elements in narration: character, conflict and universe, and work together in a crew on one common vision. You will try all processes present in a professional production like casting actors, breaking down scripts, drawing storyboards, dressing locations, and filming according to a minutely planned schedule. As all the other projects, this project – according to EFC teaching strategy - is meant to be a well controlled training ground for your personal projects at EFC and later on. The EFC faculty will organise the crews.

6-Minute Project – DOC‘n’MIX
Before the Christmas break, you will make a documentary project with a maximum duration of 6 minutes. Before the project you will be presented with different documentary genres and methods. You decide which method you will use. It can be a good idea to start research and development of your idea in October. documentary film will be the core of this project period. You will hand in written treatments to a panel of teachers, and this is followed by a pitch session in Big Bear. Out of all projects handed in and pitched only 18 to 20 will be produced. Students will organise the crew themselves.

8-Minute Project
In spring 2012 you will get the chance to make a project of your own choice. It can be fiction, documentary, mix genre, animation, music video etc. The only limitations are maximum length and a theme. The project mechanics imply an early pitch followed by a written proposal that will be selected for development into scripts.
The crews are organised by the students themselves.

8 1/2 Minute Projects
The 8 1/2 minute project is your film. You are making it in your spare time in the weekends. Here you have every chance to experiment and take creative risks. You can write an original idea or write an adaptation, a remake or a music video. Play with the medium; challenge yourself and your crew. The maximum length of these productions is 8 1/2 minutes, and the detailed rules and regulations will be available in September.
Students will put together the crews themselves.

Final Project
The final projects will conclude your 34-stay at the EFC. The maximum length of a Final Project is 10 minutes. Students are invited to hand in original scripts (maximum 2 scripts per student). Out of all submissions, 25 projects will be selected for tutored development in one week. The developed projects will then be handed in again and they will be pitched to Mette and an external reader, who will then pick out 15 projects to become final films. Tutoring and coaching by the faculty and guests from the film business will be available throughout the whole process. You have 28 days of very intense work for the Final Projects, and they will be followed by a week of evaluation. Students will organise the crews themselves.