Insight Out raw

I attended the 2012 Insight Out seminar at the film school in Potsdam, Germany from March 19 to 23 this year. I am dumping my “raw” notes here; they are unfiltered, unspellchecked and a little unstructured. They are useful to me – if nothing else, the act of taking notes helps me remember things – but probably not to anyone else… Day 1 _________________________________________ Session 1 general overview of workflows and formats in digital film and home entertainment – by Flying Eye – media management consultants; ie getting the techies and creatives to understand each other. Background: jan. 19th Kodak…

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Film school pedagogy – a preamble to some musings.

In the last few months I find myself increasingly engaged in discussions about film school pedagogy and, more specifically, the dearth of literature devote to this topic. From what I can tell there are three published works about Film Schools and how they structure their education. Heidi Philipsen of The University of Southern Denmark published in 2005 her PhD thesis “Dansk films nye bølge” (The New Wave of Danish Film) about the pedagogical principles at the Danish Film School. Canadian filmmaker Paul Lee published in 2001 his PhD thesis “The FIlmmaker as Artist-Educator” submittet to The Ontario Institute for Studies…

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