CINEMATOGRAPHY LAB

Film Shooting Workshop

Cinematography Lab – Film Shooting Workshop

Cinematography Lab is a Workshop on the theory, technique, and language of shooting film, created in collaboration with Shot Academy.

The Workshop will take place in Florence in the prestigious San Firenze complex, which hosts the Franco Zeffirelli International Centre for the Performing Arts.

The Workshop aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills of the members of the Camera Department, with particular emphasis on the practice of Cinematography.

Cinematography Lab includes 8 theoretical lessons and 12 practical ‘training on set’ sessions, real film sets set up within the evocative spaces of the historic complex of San Firenze.

The focus of the training on set is on movements of the camera, composition of the image, and techniques of lighting.

Teachers – Stefano Di Leo and Alessandro Bernabucci

The Film Shooting Workshop – Cinematography Lab is curated by Stefano di Leo and Alessandro Bernabucci, co-founders of Shot Academy, a professional training centre dedicated to Cinematography and Digital Cinema. Shot Academy collaborates with the most established professionals in the industry: DoP, Camera Operator, Focus Puller and D.I.T.

The method used by Shot Academy is that of on set training, real film sets that are set up during the lessons using the same technical means as Italian and international film productions.

Stefano di Leo, in addition to having taught Theories and techniques of analogical and digital shooting at the University La Sapienza of Rome, has worked as a DoP, mainly in the documentary field.

Alessandro Bernabucci was teaching coordinator of the Seminar ‘Digital Cinema – Data Manager’ for the national Film School of Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia,  and is currently teaching ‘Technique of shooting’ at the Istituto di Stato per la Cinematografia ‘Roberto Rossellini’ in Rome. He has worked as director and screenwriter in national television productions.

To whom is the Film Shooting Workshop – Cinematography Lab is addressed

The Workshop is open to those who wish to increase their skills in the area of Camera Department, the sector that deals with the creation of images during film productions.

When and how: the Course Programme

September 22nd 2020
10.00 – 13.00 – Theory – Characteristics of the image, elements of cinematographic language
14.00 – 18.00 – Training on set: Camera setup and tests.

September 23th  2020
10.00 – 13.00 – Theory: Camera department.  The formats.
14.00 – 18.00 – Training on set: Light sources and accessories

September 24th  2020
10.00 – 13.00 – Theory: Lenses.
14.00 – 18.00 – Training on set:  Camera movements. Focus Pulling.

September 25th 2020
10.00 – 13.00 – Theory:  Colorimetry and color temperature
14.00 – 18.00 – Training on set – Stage lighting: Three point Lightining. Point and non-point light

September 26th 2020
Day off

September 27th 2020
10.00 – 13.00 – Theory: Photographic filters
14.00 – 18.00 – Training on set: Stage lighting: High Key light – Low Key Light

September 28th 2020
10.00 – 13.00 – Theory – Photometry and exposure.
14.00 – 18.00 – Training on set:  Stage lighting: exposure and contrast ratio

September 29th 2020
10.00 – 13.00 – Theory: Sensitometry
14.00 – 18.00 – Training on set: Stage lighting: High Key light – Low Key Light

September 30th 2020
10.00 – 13.00 – Theory: Recap
14.00 – 18.00 – Training on set: Set up set fpr shot and reverse shot

October 1st, 2020
10.00 – 13.00 – Training on set: Shooting
14.00 – 18.00 – Training on set: Shooting

October 2nd 2020
10.00 – 13.00 – Training on set: Shooting
14.00 – 18.00 – Training on set: Shooting

Entry requirements

Applicants’date of birth cannot be later than 31 December 2001. No specific qualifications are required. An admission interview via Skype may be required.

How to subscribe to the Cinematography Lab

Applicants must send the attached application form, duly completed and signed, by September 8th, 2020 at the latest, to the following e-mail addresses:

info@fondazionefrancozeffirelli.com; education@fondazionefrancozeffirelli.com

Applications must be accompanied by a brief curriculum vitae, highlighting the skills and experience that the candidate considers relevant to the course.

Applications will be examined by the Foundation, which will admit a maximum of 15 suitable students to the course. The Foundation’s decision will be communicated by e-mail to applicants by September 11th 2020.

If the number of  eligible students does not reach 7, the course will not be activated.

Candidates admitted to attend the Cinematography Lab must complete their registration by October 22th 2020.

Cost and payment 

1,800€ to be paid in two installments: the first, of  900 Euros, after approval of the application by September 16th 2020; the second, of 900 Euros, by  September 22nd 2020. Payment of the installments must be made by bank transfer to the Franco Zeffirelli Foundation.

Bank details:

Franco Zeffirelli Foundation Onlus

BNL Ag. Roma Bissolati

L.go Santa Susanna, 16

00187 Rome

IBAN code: EN 81F010050320000000000014345

BIC code SWIFT: BNL I I TRR

For more information

For more information on the Cinematography Lab – Film Shooting Workshop, please contact us at + 39 055 281038 or write an email to info@fondazionefrancozeffirelli.com.