1. Le Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse
2017/18 edition: ‘Places and Stories’

2. Places are where stories happen
Places are where stories happen. Some types of place generate particular kinds of story rather than others. Some types of place have become generic in film.

3. Others? Brainstorm; and in books? In culture more generally?

4. Two versions of Place in Film
Places shaped by narrative
Forbidden and dangerous places
Places of memory; that ‘memorialise’
‘remembered places’
‘alternative places’/ places for ‘alternative people’; ‘others’
Islands
Prisons, asylums, borstals
Gardens, parks
Playgrounds, dance floors, gyms
Libraries, museums, galleries
Haunted houses and basements
Trains, boats, spaceships
fairgrounds
Establish some relationship between the two lists – one from France, ore abstract, the other specific examples; then think of examples, in groups.

5. CCAJ: basic structure
Maximum length of project; 25 weeks, at 1-2 hours per week
Minimum viable length – 12 weeks/ 1 hour a week
Mixture of watching clips/ discussion, and completion of 3 short film-making Exercises and a final 5-8 minute film
Option of feature film viewing
Viewing all films at BFI Southbank late June 2018

6. King’s Crescent /

7. Islands

8. Forbidden Spaces: Rebecca

9. Remembered Places: Shadows of the Past

10. ‘Other’ Places: E Scissorhands

11. Jemima and Johnny

12. Exercise 1
This exercise is to be performed individually or in pairs, outside of school hours if possible:
Share a Place with us that is important to you. Take 3 or 4 photos, or between 1 & 4 shots of the space (2 minutes maximum). Try to find ways to convey the sensation that this Place creates. The space should not have any fictional characters in it.

13. Exercise 2
To be performed by a small group: Choose a location and film how you enter in to this Place. Film the space before it is entered in to and the moment it is entered in to. The film must last a maximum of 2 minutes. If possible the location chosen should be one of the Places identified in exercise 1.

14. Optional Exercise 2a
Choose images, brought together in categories and imagine stories that have taken place – or will take place in this Place; give them a title; imagine a sound track for the images – narrative sounds or atmospheric noises.

15. Exercise 3
To be performed by a small group: Film a Place and introduce an element of another time, whether that be the past or the future. This will be mainly, but not exclusively, indicated by the soundtrack, through voice, sounds and music. The sound and the images don’t have to be synchronous. The film must last a maximum of 2 minutes

16. Optional Exercise 3a
Imagine all the different perspectives that a particular Place may offer, what perspectives would all the different people who frequent the space have? Imagine how would that change according to the people, the time of day etc…

17. Final film
Make a film where a character brings another character, or characters, into a Place that s/he knows. The discovery of this place must be linked to an emotional or dramatically significant response for one of the characters.
The work explored in the exercises should inform the way that the Place is filmed.
The film, including credits, will be between 5 – 8 minutes maximum.

18. Links https://markreid1895.wordpress.com/
: password Places
NB, clips not cleared for age suitability – check first!