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29th August – 11th September 2022
10 Participants
Fee: 800 € for externals
Application period: 20th June – 1st August 2022

Documentary film design
Practice Workshop: How to make your documentary a cohesive cinematic work of art.
Plan – shoot – cut

• on-site

A two-week hands-on seminar focusing on documentary work and design intent. Documentary films often fall short of their visual possibilities. The seminar is designed to give directors*, cinematographers and editors* concrete tools with which they can achieve strong visual work. The first week focuses on planning a creative concept and the associated camera work. The second week is the associated editing process.
It goes from planning the design concept to execution to evaluation and review. Following the seminar, an introduction and exercises on working with live-visual programs can be attended on two further days. This is intended to stimulate a new approach to the creative process of editing.

Academic Direction: Prof. Beatrice Babin

Workshop Leader: Paola Calvo,Patrick Jasim, Ginés Olivares

05th – 09th September 2022
10 Participants
Fee: 750 € for externals
Application period: 1st July – 10th August 2022

• online 

19th – 24th September 2022
16 Participants
Fee: 500 € for externals
Application period: 1th July- 15th August 2022

• hybrid

We go into the depth of directing serial formats and want to learn from the best. How do you successfully implement dramaturgical highlights of a series in a stage setting? How do we adapt to the needs of Production & Showrunner? Adaptation: what needs to be considered? Direction at an international world order such as THE CROWN: How can you succeed in cleverly integrating a personal handwriting into the dramaturgy and look of a well-known series? What role do regional characteristics play in a 30 something comedy series like SERVUS BABY? How can we dive into the world of WE ARE THE WAVE? And how do you share the responsibility in collaborating like in HACKERVILLE or a duo work as in THE BOAT Season III? Which do’s and don’s have to be considered when directing concepts of serial formats & where are the pitfalls?

Goal: In the end, each participant should develop a director’s concept with moods

Academic Direction: Prof. Tac Romey, Prof. Dr. Julia von Heinz

Moderation: Pauline Roenneberg

Workshop Leader: Baran Bo Odar, Christian Schwochow, Julia von Heinz, Anna Winger, Natalie Spinell

26th September – 05th October 2022
10 Participants
Fee: 600 € for externals
Application period: 15th July – 20th August 2022

• on-site

WOMEN WRITING LAB is a workshop by award-winning and Oscar®-nominated writer & director Robin Swicord, who has written the books for THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, or LITTLE WOMEN, among others. In a week-long workshop setting, you will learn practical tools for creating compelling stories that are well-founded in the essential elements of drama. We will address the development of strong original characters, and how all story rises from character. We will explore the use of themes to ground every story in universal meaning. Through guided exercises, you’ll develop your own instincts for story, character, and powerful, visual scenes. During daily writing hours, you will expand and develop your own story ideas, and refine your ideas in individual mentoring sessions with the workshop leader, Robin Swicord.
The goal of the workshop is for each participating writer to develop a full story as a detailed treatment for a feature film or a multi-part episodic TV story, which will become the immediate blueprint for your screenplay. This is the workshop that will launch you into your first draft, or your next draft.

Workshop Leader: Robin Swicord

„STRENGTHENING YOUR SCREENWRITING TECHNIQUES” is a craft-based workshop designed to build on your foundational screenwriting skills. In a week-long workshop setting, you will learn practical tools for creating compelling stories that are well-founded in the essential elements of drama. We will address the development of strong original characters, and how all story rises from character. We will explore the use of themes to ground every story in universal meaning. Through guided exercises, you’ll develop your own instincts for story, character, and powerful, visual scenes. During daily writing hours, you will expand and develop your own story ideas, and refine your ideas in individual mentoring sessions with the workshop leader, Robin Swicord.
The goal of the workshop is for each participating writer to develop a full story as a detailed treatment for a feature film or a multi-part episodic TV story, which will become the immediate blueprint for your screenplay. This is the workshop that will launch you into your first draft, or your next draft.

Akademic direction: Natalie Spinell, Prof. Tac Romey
Speaker: Natalie Spinell, Taç Romey, Pauline Roenneberg, Anca Miruna Lăzărescu, Christian Schwochow, Dennis Gansel, Hans Steinbichler, Moritz Polter
Host: Pauline Roenneberg

We go into the depth of directing serial formats and want to learn from the best. How do you successfully implement dramaturgical highlights of a series in a stage setting? How do we adapt to the needs of Production & Showrunner? Adaptation: what needs to be considered? Direction at an international world order such as THE CROWN: How can you succeed in cleverly integrating a personal handwriting into the dramaturgy and look of a well-known series? What role do regional characteristics play in a 30 something comedy series like SERVUS BABY? How can we dive into the world of WE ARE THE WAVE? And how do you share the responsibility in collaborating like in HACKERVILLE or a duo work as in THE BOAT Season III? Which do’s and don’s have to be considered when directing concepts of serial formats & where are the pitfalls?

Goal: In the end, each participant should develop a director’s concept with moods

Target group: For a small group of max. 18 participants, including 9 students from the HFF Munich in the Directorate & Screenplay departments

This intensive seminar introduces and elaborates essential writing tools and combines theory, writing sprints and immediate feedback. Guided by experienced instructors you will write a full feature film treatment in 5 days. This seminar is for beginning writers and professionals alike, open for brand new ideas as well as for concepts you’ve always wanted to write.

Requirement: An idea for a feature film, summarized in 1-3 pages max.

Visual storytelling is the key to filmmaking and, because audio and moving image must come together, it is one of the most difficult art forms. Storyboards can help us find the right position and order of the characters in the scene, adjust the lighting and the movement of the camera. Storyboards can help us find the right position and order of the characters in the scene, adjust the lighting and the movement of the camera. Finding this translation from the words in the script to the final image in the storyboard sequence is practiced with existing scripts.

STORYBOARD I

– HFF München –
Workshop Leader: Prof- Michael Coldewey
06. September – 10. September 2021
Application Deadline: 1. September 2021
Guest Speaker: Tobias Schwarz
Max. 15 Participants
Fee: 500€
Translating a script into images, words into drawings, and giving visual expression to characters is a magical and wonderful process. Participants how to break down a script, develop floor plans, stage scenes with actors and cameras, and put those scenes into action.

Goal: Present storyboard panels that give an idea of the overall mood of a film with light and shadow and accurate camera angles and movements.

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STORYBOARD II

– HFF München –
Workshop Leader: Prof- Michael Coldewey
13. September – 17. September 2021
Application Deadline: 23. August 2021
Guest Speaker: Tobias Schwarz
Max. 15 Participants
Fee: 500€
Tutorial with a lot of knowledge in digital art to bring the storyboard into a presentation deck with mood images. Tutorial with a lot of knowledge in digital art to bring the storyboard into a presentation deck with mood images.
Participants will learn to take advantage of drawing software such as Procreate on Apple iPadPro.

Goal: At the end of the course, each student will create an animation (storyboard slideshow with timing) of a sequence.