French cinema worshop at the "Festival international du court métrage" - Lille - 2014

 

On Monday, September 29th, we went to Lille to participate in the « Short film international festival ».

We sat in a theatre inside the « Beaux Arts » with other groups of pupils from different schools.

First, a lady explained to us the different techniques to make a short film such as :

• Live action shots
• Animation, which includes :
• Puppet animation which typically involves stop-motion puppet figures interacting in a constructed environment
• Clay animation which uses figures made of clay or a similar malleable material to create stop-motion animation.
• Cutout animation which is a type of stop-motion animation produced by moving two-dimensional pieces of material such as paper or cloth.
• Object animation which refers to the use of regular inanimate objects in stop-motion animation.
• Chroma key chroma keying, is a special effects technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on color hues (chroma range). We usually use a « green screen » for this technique.
• Synthetic images

To illustrate these techniques, we watched 9 short films. Some of them are available on the internet.

• « Partie de pêche »

• "Simon's cat"

• "Lettres de femmes"

• « Rob’n’Ron »

 

• « Mon pote »

• "The sweater"

• « Auguste et Louis »

• « Senez Sound System »

• « Baed Az Class ».