collective videographic intervention project

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El CIELO DEL OJO is a collective creative project that brings together

young filmmakers through the European Network Nisi-Masa, using

video as a communication tool. The associations that participate will create

a artistic work summing up the 23 short films that each of them will shoot

about the subject of the sky.

This initiative adopts the form of an exquisite corpse. Each group taking

part will record a video and its last shot will be used as the first of the next

one. As soon as each group have finished its piece, the material will travel

physically to its next stop in a traveling box. The content of the parcel sent

by post will be all the materials necessary to fullfill the activity: a reflex

camera with video recording devices, an instruction sheet indicating all

the steps that need to be taken and the conditions of the game, a Polaroid

camera to take a picture of the last shot, an audio recorder to capture

aditional sounds, the objects used to create the last shot if necessary (in

order to help the next team to recreate it) and a dossier including all kind

of references (details) about the visual possibilities of the project, that will

allow to multiply the creative choices.

The result will be a long-lenth video including all the different interpretations of the participants around the main topic. The pieces

can create a very diverse portrait of the sky as a concept. It can be the flight of a plane, the luminic contamination, the astronomic phenomena,...

In order to provide this visual mosaic with a narration thread that may unify it, a sound artist will also be incorporated to the project. He will create a unique soundtrack using part of the material previously recorded by the participants, as well as songs composed for the ocassion.

The exhibition of the final result will be done in a similar way. The audience will contemplate the video shown on a horizontal screen (placed on the ceiling) which will hang over their heads. The people assiting to the instalation will discover the European skies – in the broaden sense of the word – without moving from the spot (from their seats?).

The contestants can use any kind of technique to complete their work: stop motion, digital animation, live action...

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OBJECTIVES• To enhance the collaboration in creative terms of all the members of

the differents divisions of Nisi-Masa. In other words, to encourage the

dialogue among young European filmmakers.

• To stablish a link between collectives and people with different

backgrounds and different environments and disciplines.

• To promote the reflexion about the topic of creation and the ways of

interpreting the environment in terms of plurality.

• To create a particular language that brings young people (teenagers)

closer to the media and to videographic artistic creation tools.

• To provide young collectives with tools that may give them a critical

vision on current issues such us pollution, climate change or technological

advances.

• To offer the participants and the audience the possibility of exploring the city

in a personal way. Not just from a geographical point of view but also from a

potentially creative point of view.

• To demonstrate that the sky, instead of being a broaden concept and espace, is

able to accomodate a large number of actions, narratives and languages.

• To establish a creative framework where the cinematic resources available,

since not necessarily based on dialogues, will enrich the audiovisual

language of the resulting projects.

• To use cinema as a tool to represent in a poetic way the links within Europe

as a symbol that sets aside borders or languages.

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1.Pre - production

2.Production

3.Postproduction Screening design

4.Screening

DurATIoN: oNE MoNTH (MAy 2011)

• Definition the scale of the project in terms of time and work.

• Publication and broadcasting of the project through the Nisi Masa regular communication channels in order to seek further collaborators.

• research into the potentially interested groups among the Nisi Masa network, considering their own interests and motivations for the project.

• Contact with the participants to extend a formal invitation and to explain the basic concepts of the project so their participation will be assured and clear.

• Creation of an adaptation? of the project’s dossier including the visual documentation that will be used as a reference by the participants.

• Purchase or borrowing the technical equipment necessary for the project’s production.

• Set-up of the container box (parcel) and the norm sheet that the first group may use as a guideline to create the first video.

DurATIoN: oNE MoNTH. FroM AuguST 15TH 2011 To

SEPTEMbEr 2011.

• o Editing, mounting (¿montaje? Eso es “editing”) and color correction.

• o Creation of the soundtrack.

• o Design of the screening. Selection of the venue where the screening will take place.

• o Design and preparation of the screening room.

• o Purchase of the technical equipment required for the screening.

• o Design of the promotional material for the screening.

• o Promotion of the event throughout the national and european media, with the support from Nisi Masa and the participating countries.

DurATIoN: 15 DAyS IN THE SECoND HAlF oF SEPTEMbEr.

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• o Setting up the equipment required for the screening.

• o Screening tests.

• o Preparation of the final screening.

• o Documentation of the event.

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DurATIoN: Will be determined by the production conditions (scale, number of participants, city hosting the event, etc).

MAxIMuM TWo MoNTHS AND A HAlF, uNTIl AuguST 2011.

• Dispatch of the container box to the country / countries hosting the event, according to a previously established route.

• Actual production of the videos by each of the groups. The time that will be dedicated to each of them will depend on the number of parti-cipants, counting 5 days as the average (in case there are 15 groups of participants).

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Current technologies make video creation enormously accessible

(available) for almost everyone. besides, it is an excellent format

for collective creation and, therefore for the integration of different

groups. by involving people coming from different places and with

different profiles in a common project, the differences between them

allow us to have a richer and wider version of the subject treated.

That’s how curiosity towards the other and its interpretation of a subject

will make possible for the participants to witness the freedom and

enormous creative possibilities of video creation. In this way we will promote

the active participation of young people in their own communities as well as

in a wider extent at a European level through the Nisi Masa network.

The fact of providing all the participants with the same elements to

carry out their bit of video (short film, short video?),

puts all of them under similar conditions and

creates a system where creativity is

the only variable that will condition

the final result.

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