Video Camps

Within this festival "European Literature Goes to Turkey/ Turkish Literature Goes to Europe" diyalog is organizing a workshop series called “Video Camps”. The workshops were developed by diyalog in the frame of entropyTVand will focus on creating short video narratives, shot in a single take.

Using the one single shot technique for story telling in video and publishing it on the Internet.

Thomas Büsch/Sabine Küper-Büsch/Erem Tapa

Objectives of the workshops

The workshop focuses on creating short video narratives, shot in a single take. The whole process is an act focusing on the economics of video narration. Because shooting single takes requires knowledge, creative vision and organizational precision.

The videos, shot from the moment of turning the camera on, to the moment of turning the camera off, with no interruption and no editing, are published finally online.

In a director’s cinematic bag of tricks the long tracking shot is the boldest way of making a statement. It’s the flashiest and most attention-grabbing egotistical way of flexing one’s muscle. In most cases it's a narcissistic maneuver, “look-at-me” filming technique, but rare ones, the best ones, serve to reflect and further the story in a way that can’t be reflected with traditional editing.

After having sessions for developing ideas for short single take digital narratives, the participants move into the hands-on process of shooting. The course highlights the difficulties of the single take and concentrates on ways of transforming the idea from conception into a narrative. The narratives focus mostly on the environment, documenting the surrounding and the participant’s perceptions.

Watch the first result from Trabzon at vimeo, please subscribe there to watch the. videos