Here is how you can learn to bring your most challenging ideas to reality

Sustainable Film Production

Communication, Sensory, Visual Anthropology

Disruptive Humancentric Storytelling

in

Transylvania, Romania

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Ever dreamed to learn how to use your personal equipment at your best storytelling potential? 

Love to expand your creative skills simultaneously with your soft skills? Cineimpact offers a toolbox that guides you into the deeper understanding of cinematic storytelling along revealing your own personal powers to impact the world.  Cineimpact mentorship enhances the development of your decision-making process, by learning to take better decisions in your non-fiction based projects, just as in real life contexts. You can learn how to enjoy creating your best version film, to take home at the end of this unique journey. Good times mixed with optimal creativity are the flow state of the program! Here are several details of the program content:

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Program for the Film Production Section: 

New Film Production

In an intense time frame, you are guided in the process of shooting and editing a short creative Documentary or Docu-Fiction Film. Through a personalized hands-on process, you will be supported through a mentorship program in shaping your best practice creativity. The Cineimpact method enriches your skillset with an agile fusion of Film and Anthropology tools. In this personal development journey, you receive in-depth expert feedback on your work. Each course day will comprise individual coaching to improve your most essential film and storytelling skills

There will be offered a generic project theme, still in case you want to choose a different theme you are encouraged to pursue it up to its best story version. You can be part of a team working on a project, but doing everything on your own is as well acceptable

You learn a practical, transdisciplinary method on how to create an optimal movie/transmedia project out of a challenging topic, within a limiting amount of time, budget and context. You experience the entire process of filmmaking by developing a new film project, going through the fundamentals of anthropological field work, pre-production, production and post-production, concluding with a brief final touch on project pitching, fine tuning and distribution.

Cineimpact equips you to find a personal voice, strategy, and technique, by revealing your best storytelling capacities even within complicated contexts, all with the help of an integrative method bridging Sensory Documentary, Docu-Fiction Storytelling, Visual Anthropology & Social Immersion

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Welcoming Day

Cineimpact  Approach to Filmmaking

Introduction of the participants and of the program:  Cineimpact Method and Analysis applied to the personal endeavors of the participants

Day 1

Human Centric Methods and Field-Researches

Communication, Sensory, Visual Anthropology support to Filmmaking. Learning how to use Anthropology and camera lenses in the participants’ new & work-in progress projects (exploring, visualizing, analyzing social issues and individual/collective stories with cinematic potential)

Day 2 -3

Development

Researching the film themes, deciding the topics and the main characters of the film projects; developing and testing the visual treatment corresponding to each specific project 

Day 4 – 5

Production

Shooting (designing the cinematographic storytelling)

Day 6 – 7

Post-Production

Editing (creating the film narrative structure: linear, non-linear, anthropologic, experimental); Tips and Tricks of the editing process; First Cut Refinement

Day 8

Project Pitching, Distribution Strategy, Mentorship for the Future

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7 Days

Online session to further refine your projects Final Cut to your best potential

The exact date will be determined based on your and Tutor availability after the offline session

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Program for the Film Production Section: 

Work-In-Progress Incubator

You are guided through your editing questions and dilemmas with the help of a practice based mentorship program that enhances your film project by optimizing your story crafting capacity. Gradually structured integrative and iterative exercises will result in continuously improved project versions, up until the best story possible is extracted from your raw footage. You receive a tailor-made balance of individual and joint training sessions with fellow students, in order to grow at a personal level and learn from each other’s projects and experiences

During an editing hands-on process, you will be taught how to use insightful Anthropology tools into crafting a humanly relevant Film Story. In this process, you acquire personal cineimpactic skills, fusing your talent maximum potential and our accelerated story-editing method. You practically learn how to optimally disentangle the most relevant narrative structure hiding in your project footage. In a short time frame, you will be coached how to organize your newly acquired storytelling knowledge and apply it up to your best results in any of your present and future projects.

You learn a practical, transdisciplinary method empowering you to create optimal movie stories out of a challenging raw footage, within a limiting amount of time, budget and context. Through one-to-one advice, the mentorship program covers the specific need of your non-fiction, docu-fiction or fiction project, challenged by the hardships of script development, pre-production, production or post-production phases. The final days of the program integrate optimizations of project’s package, pitching, rough-cut, fine tuning or distribution strategy.

Crossing a large variety of communication formats, in a world overwhelmed by technological optimizations, groundbreaking Story Design makes the difference. A Creative and Anthropological Understanding of Humanity is the foundation of Cineimpact’s transformative guidance for crafting your most effective story

Welcoming Day

Cineimpact  Approach to Filmmaking

Introduction of the participants and of the program:  Cineimpact Method and Analysis applied to the personal endeavors of the participants

Day 1 – 3

Social Sciences and Script Writing

Researching and Understanding deeper the themes of the work-in-progress projects from points of view specific to corresponding Social Sciences (Communication, Sensory, Applied Cultural Anthropology); Developing and Testing the narrative structure of the projects according to the new input 

Day 4 – 5

Design Thinking and Story Editing

Disentangling the project’s narrative dilemmas (Log-line, Synopsis, Treatment), Shaping the story using a unique methodology specific to Design Thinking; Concluding the Directorial Vision

Day 6 – 7 

Methods of Decision-Making in Post-Production

Tips and Tricks of the editing process; Optimization of the formats corresponding to the incubated projects (teaser, trailer, demo, visuals, first cut, rough-cut); 

Day 8

Project Pitching, Distribution Strategy, Mentorship for the Future

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7 Days

Online session to further refine your projects Final Cut to your best potential

The exact date will be determined based on your and Tutor availability after the offline session

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NOTA BENE

At the end of the program, your acquired knowledge will be attested, 

receiving a Completion Certificate

The focus of Cineimpact’s experience is on developing the ability to construct audio-video stories in a manner that delves deeply into human nature themes, creates emotional connections, generates empathy and personal involvement. 

Scholarships are offered for deserving candidates, based on their Motivation Letter!

Considering the creative journeys’ accelerated nature, the participants are adviced to use the editing laptops and cameras they know to handle best.

Choose and use your most familiar equipment, as this enables your focus on what really matters:

Crafting a Relevant and Compelling Film Story!

Invest in bringing your potential, creativity and career to the next level

and apply for one of the limited personalized positions by clicking here !

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  CINEIMPACT 

champions

Cinema and Humanity

through

researching, mentoring, igniting

human centered

METHODS, TOOLBOXES & LEARNING EXPERIENCES

by whom

Film and Social Sciences, New Media and Technology, Visual Journalism and Arts

collaborate in optimized ways

to Understand and Impact the Society We Live In

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Here you can navigate few Lovely Memories of the previous years’ editions:

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