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Aims of the workshop
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ESoDoc offers three 1-week workshops, held over a 6-month period, during which participants, either individually or in groups, develop projects based on specific Social Documentary themes.
An e-platform will provide support during and between the workshops and allow continuous collaboration through a library, different project-related discussion forums and dialogue among the teachers, tutors and participants.
The working language is English.
ESoDoc aims to provide:
NETWORKING We invite a wide range of top professionals from many countries (see teachers’ list) to mix with participants from all over Europe throughout our workshops.
CULTURAL AWARENESS We encourage sensitivity in working with cultures of the developing world and co-operation with indigenous communities.
SKILLS We are increasingly focused on digital media. We illustrate the varieties of multi-platform programming and social websites. We teach how to operate the most common IT tools now available to support documentary programming. We hold classes in multiskilling camera for a single operator in a difficult environment. We also hold classes in ‘participatory video’, where the filmmaking is a shared experience between the professional and the community concerned, another example of changing roles in audiovisual production and a process where the making of the film is as important as the film itself.
Most important, we teach participants how to think laterally about their work, to explore ways to adapt their projects and their own role to the changing technologies and new opportunities now challenging us.
PRODUCTION We outline the market in Europe for social documentaries and different ways of funding them, also the varieties of distribution and co-production. We hold one to one sessions for budgeting.
PITCHING We teach how to pitch and what to expect. Then we put it to the test in front of an audience. The public pitch is part of the project-development process and the climax of our workshops.