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HUMANITARIAN BAZAAR WORKSHOP

PRODUCING DOCUMENTARY FILM IN TOUGH SITUATIONS

Humanitarian Bazaar & Minding Development present a crash course on making documentary films. We’ll give you a rare look inside our film, LIVE FROM MOGADISHU. 

Vienna, Austria, RSVP for location  |  11am – 6pm, Sat August 16th, 2014  |  Cost: 30 euro or more donation to our film and counter-violence project in Somalia, or equivalent volunteer time  |  PLEASE RSVP at Humanitarianbazaar@gmail.com 

THE POINT:  Humanitarian Bazaar, a US-based creative humanitarian media organization produces projects around the world focused on how people survive war and disaster. In cooperation with our hosts, we bring expertise from our successful work in Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Afghanistan, and more. We will train participants on the dynamics of filmmaking in tough situations. We’ll run a rapid review of storytelling, video pre-production, production, production with heavy travel, production with security, and post-production. [/two-columns][two-columns]

Dikriyo at Mogadishu Music Festival, covered by Rolling Stone. Photo by Daniel J Gerstle.

[/two-columns][/columns]TRAINER: Founder Daniel J Gerstle, who has run trainings at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, Mailman School of Public Health, International Medical Corps, and Humanitarian Bazaar, and produced video with Oxfam, the United Nations, Adeso Africa, and Humanitarian Bazaar, will provide an overview of documentary filmmaking, specifically how to get started making films in tough situations ranging from war, disaster, poverty, and rough travel:

SCHEDULE

1100  |  Storytelling! We’ll get to know your goals up front and shape the workshop to make sure your most important questions are answered. Daniel will first introduce the work of Humanitarian Bazaar in Somalia, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria, and Bosnia with some short videos. He will then present an overview of the Writer’s three-act storytelling technique and how he learned to apply this not only to fiction but also documentary video and journalism. Each participant will then offer how they learned to tell their first stories.

1200  |  Pre-Production / Developing Resources for Film. We’ll map out how documentary filmmakers, as Executive Producer, estimate how many team members, how much funding, what kind of camera, lighting, and sound equipment, and what unusual materials might be needed. Then we share secrets how most teams solve these needs. Followed by question and answer break.

1300  |  Pre-Production / Building the Team & Schedule. We’ll then map how the Executive Producer confirms the Director who then hires the Producer and team to plan the production. The Producer hires the best combination to fulfill the Director’s vision for the story. That includes Field Producer/Translator for the ground coordination, Camera person, Audio person, Lighting person. Sometimes on a hard travel project, or low budget key people have more than one job to save funds and travel faster. The discussion will have question and answer break.

1400  |  Production / Overview of the Universal Tasks. We’ll outline what all documentary filmmakers do, primarily camera (using Canon 5D as an example), camera settings, lenses, lighting, audio, filters, tripod, dolly, steady rig, data storage, battery, protective gear for weather, safety, and general security.

1500  |  Production / Overcoming Risks & Complications.  We’ll look at the special complications of filming during hard travel, security risks, and moral questions. Examples will come from the intructor’s experience filming in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and other places.

1530  |  Coffee Break. Get to know each other better and whether we can help each other’s goals.

1600  |  Post-Production / Overview of Editing.  We’ll give a brief outline of video editing, showing the universals that work for most timeline video editors (Final Cut vs Premiere vs Powerdirector), and how that leads us to teaser videos, fundraising videos, webisodes, and full features.

1700 |  Question & Answer. Whoever would like to stay longer to discuss questions about the training, something personal, or to arrange a follow up discussion, please do. Thanks to all for joining Humanitarian Bazaar.

Participants Signed Up So Far  |  Daniel, Celmun, Vincent, Tassilo, others to be confirmed.

Daniel J Gerstle, Founder / Trainer  |  Humanitarian Bazaar  |  skype: daniel.j.gerstle, Humanitarianbazaar@gmail.com

Thank you! Hvala!

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Somalia | Stranded after wreck in the desert, Sanag. DJG 2011.