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We had a lecture by Inga Von Staden. Among other, she is at the head of the Interactive Media program at the Filmakademie.
During three days she presented to us an overall assessment of the cross media through different cases. From games to cinema, this type tend to be more and more present in audiovisual and print fields. Furthermore it is targeted to a vaste and various audience. In order to realize how to manage such ubiquist project, we had to work in teams and made up some projects.

Day 10 and 11

We met Mike Robinson who is currently involved in the Cartoon Forum organisation and is also asked as a consultant about animation production. He explained to us the procedure of the event and which kind of project is it aimed for. It was also a first step toward the development of ideas in Viborg and it’s pitching during the fourth module in Paris. Therefore he gaves us some piece of advice for preparing a convincing presentation. It is important because there are very few slots available in the TV program compare to the amount of projects presented every year.

Then we had a great dinner with Tina, Claudia, Christian, Mark, Professor Thomas Hägele and all the members of ASF. Just the time to say good bye before we met each other agin in the MOME at Budapest!

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We all arrived on Sunday by plane or train and has the time to meet each other during a good Mexican diner. It was also the possibility to get to know the limits of our stomach since there was plenty of food

Day 1

We met Tina Ohnmacht, the German coordinator of the Filmakademie. She just had the time to presents the school to us and to show some extracts of the students’ projects. I was very impressed by the fact that the students could ask for  fundings. Therefore, they have the possibility to sell the project to professional broadcasters and ask for funding from public institutions. Graduation movie budget can reach between 30 000 to 40 000 € for a 90 min length film. I think it makes a big difference.

The Filmakademie curriculum is divided in two years of imposed exercise, in order to let the students discover the techniques and the tools, and two years of practice on personal projects in real conditions. That means that each student is holding a position as a professional.

The school gathers several study departments : animation, technical directing, directing (fiction/non-fiction), editing, camera, production design (e.g. fiction, series, international, creative, animation/VFX). Nearly every field of a modern production is covered

http://www.filmakademie.de/?L=1

Then we had a lecture of Moritz Mayerhoffer . He was a former student in animation in The Filmakademie and he took part to the second ASF programme. He is now living in Berlin and works as a professional. He shared his experience of promoting a project with us.

The main themes we discuss together were the difficulty to link art and funding. How to be convincing when you pitch a project in front of professional buyers and what are they looking for. Which kind of reaction could pop up and how to be prepared to it.

Among many other piece of advice, he emphasized to don’t make the mistake of underestimate the budget of a project. In fact, it is not ensuring the investors at all. And also be prepared to face what we called the country effect, a share of the production between several studios.

In the afternoon, we were invited to visit Gmbh Unexpected. A studio mainly aimed at advertisement and phone applications. They are today well known for their work on transformers characters.

http://www.unexpected.de/

Day 2 and Day 3

We had a lecture of Kim BjØrnqvist currently working as a Head of Development and acquisitions in Nordisk Film. He presented us a way of finding new ideas based on post its. We were all dispatched in groups and interesting stories came out. We also had a brief on how to pitch. It was an introduction for what will come next.

Day 4 and Day 5

On day 4 we had a lecture of the superviseur of the children TV serie “Jasper” Kay Delventhal. He shared with us his experience of how to produce a serie between several countries and set up a reliable production pipeline.

On day 5 we had an impro lesson with Dörthe Eickelberg. I think we all enjoyed it very much. (Pictures to come

Finally we had a nice week end discovering Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart.

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Here you would find a blog launched two years ago by a former ASF student called Flavio Perez. I think it would be a good thing to bring it back to life so we could have a place to share our impressions and thoughts about the program.

You can post any kind of format : photos, videos, writings, drawings and even sounds if you like. Feel free to express yourself in english or even in your native tongs.

Thanks!

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This week ASF season 4 has started in the Filmakademie ! The new ASF student group asked to join the UNofficial blog and use it. I’m glad to give them the keys and wish them an amazing ASF ! Hey folks, enjoy it as much as possible !

Thanks again to the ASF team ! See you soon !

Cheers !

Flavio

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Day 9 was about visiting Kitchen Budapest, an amazing little place for artists and technicians that ables them to work together. The Afternoon we have met Adam Slomai Fisher, co funder of the Kitchen Budapest, Architect, who was there to present an amazing flash application for keynotes : Prezi. After that we were invited to the opening of the Budapest animation Festival (with a screening of Mary and Max).
Next day allowed us to met the Studio Platige Image (from Poland), presenting they last short movie : the kinematrographer, and the afternoon was dedicated to Tchek animation. After that we have been on our unofficial farewell diner at Fruszi’s place.

Fr / Voici les photos des jours 9 et 10 à Budapest, au MOME.

Le 9e jour nous avons visité Kitchen Budapest, un endroit incroyable pour les artistes et techniciens qui leur permet de travailler ensemble (installations artistiques, création de produits divers et variés). L’après midi nous avons rencontré Adam Slomai Fisher, co fondateur de Kitchen Budapest, architecte, et qui était venu nous présenter une autre de ses superbes créations, l’application de présentations : Prezi. Après ça nous avons été invités à l’ouverture du Festival d’Animation de Budapest (avec une projection du superbe Mary and Max).
Le jour suivant nous avons rencontré le réalisateur et le producteur du Studio Platige Image (de Pologne) venu présenter leur dernier court métrage : le Kinématographe, ainsi que quelques uns de leurs futurs projets (qui graphiquement, sont très intéressants). A noter la projection d’un court métrage pour Reporters Sans Frontières, banni juste avant les JO de Pékin et que quasiment personne n’a pu voir malheureusement (pourtant il fait son petit effet). Enfin l’après midi était dédié à l’animation Tcheque. En soirée, nous nous retrouvions tous chez Fruzi pour un diner d’adieux non officiel.

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This is our 3rd module and The Animation Workshop seems to be the perfect place to study.
We all learned so much with our main teacher, Mike Robinson and the best of all we are having great fun with it.
Animation Workshop is cool in every aspect. Besides normal classes that are part of the coures here, there are open lectures like life drawing and theatre improvisation, as well some yoga and tai chi that unfortunatly for us were not happening this week. We have a kitchen where everyone joins to cook and chat and a disco bar to dance like crazy (if we are up to it).
Personaly I am thinking coming here next year to get in the Professional training in 3D character animation, as they have a great curriculum.
One of the best weeks in ASF is until Vigorg module.
I´m looking forward to see wht is coming up next week.

Cristiano Mourato

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Fr / Dimanche était très brumeux et nous sommes allé chez Peter pour manger et jouer de la musique toute la journée. C’était super, très bons souvenirs. Le lundi, retour au travail avec deux conférences. Le matin Tamás Waliczky présentait son travail de pionnier et nous parlait de l’aspect technique et théorique de ses projets. L’après midi nous avions l’occasion de rencontrer Alexei Alexeev, gagnant de nombreux prix, venu nous parler de son process de création, très indépendant, et particulièrement pour sa folle série animée KJFG N° 5.

PS : I’m experimenting a new way to put the pictures to avoid you to visit Flickr. What did you prefere? The old way? or the new one with that little flash player? Answer in the comments, thanks
You just need to click play, it will change the pictures automaticaly. If you don’t move the mouse the menu will disapear.

If the player don’t work, follow that link.

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Fr / La dernière lecture de la première semaine fût dédiée aux VFX en Hongrie. Puis nous sommes tous partis au centre ville pour une soirée sympathique. Le samedi, rien n’était programmé, chacun était libre de vaquer où il voulait. Après avoir visité Statue Park, un petit musée dédié aux vieilles statues communistes (de l’époque de l’URSS donc), j’ai pu faire une longue promenade près du Danube et profiter de quelques curiosités architecturales. Voici donc quelques photos dont certains avec ce brouillard particulier.

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