La Fémis

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La fémis ( École Nationale Supérieure des métiers de l'image et du son, dt: National University of the areas image and sound) in Paris is the largest and most important film school in France.

  • 3.2.1 degree distribution and exhibition
  • 3.2.2 screenwriting course
  • 3.2.3 The Atelier Ludwigsburg- Paris
  • 3.2.4 L' université d' été
  • 5.1 directors
  • 5.2 Cutter
  • 5.3 Film Producers
  • 5.4 Production Designer
  • 5.5 sound engineer

History

The film school La fémis is regarded as the successor of the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques ( IDHEC ). The IDHEC was founded in 1943 by the composer Yves Baudrier, who taught there from 1945 to 1965 and a three-year vocational classes (including directing and editing ) offered. Among the graduates of the IDHEC there were such well-known directors like Louis Malle, Jean -Jacques Annaud, Claude Miller, Claude Sautet and Volker Schlöndorff.

The École Nationale Supérieure des métiers de l'image et du son was founded in 1984. Since 1994, the Film School in the former Pathé Studios ( built in 1926 ) in the Rue Francoeur in Montmartre is home, where such well-known filmmakers such as Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné, Jean Cocteau or Jean-Jacques Annaud realized their films.

The Regulation No. 98-371 of 13 May 1998 La fémis is an economic operation of the public sector, which is under the Ministry of Culture and Communication ( ministère de la Culture et de la communication ). Director of the film academy is currently Marc Nicolas, the Office of the President has Claude Miller held.

When the four important "missions" of the university are:

  • Initial and continuing
  • Cooperation and exchange with film schools abroad
  • Production, edition and distribution of films and documents relating to the pedagogy of the school
  • Promotion and dissemination of film culture

Equipment

The students work in a professional environment and have material, equipment and spaces that are adapted to the developments of the cinematographic and audiovisual production. The film school has four studios for the realization of films, thirty editing rooms, three auditoriums, a recording studio, three projection rooms, each with 20, 70 and 170 seats, and video and film equipment ( audio format DTS).

Furthermore, the film school offers a carpentry, a studio for film sets, ten classrooms, equipped with audio-visual materials and computers, a photo lab, two material rooms, storage rooms, lighting, camera and sound, Beta - video cameras, DV cameras and camera films in the sizes 16, Super 16 and 35 mm.

Training

The school is accessible to students through a selective competition in which the candidate may participate in no more than three times. On average, one out of twenty-five applicants will be approved for a study place. In the area director to come to a place 85 candidates. Exams take place as the teaching of French. La fémis maintains partnerships and exchange agreements, among others. with Columbia University in New York, the California Institute of the Arts and film schools in London, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, and with a Swiss Film School (Lausanne) and the Film Academy Baden- Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg.

Initial

While the École Louis Lumière selects a technical emphasis, the course shall be at La fémis as versatile since it partially takes place of labor and interdisciplinary. French students who are applying to study at the film school must be able to present a state diploma or a comparable level of education, and may not yet have reached the age of 27. Candidates of the European Union or the Foreign must have proof of equivalent educational degree. Also qualified for the competition are applicants with high school diploma and at least four years of professional experience. The command of the French language is mandatory. The multi-day tests and the lessons take place in French. The training offered is composed of a main course, which is divided into seven departments: film production, screenwriting, directing, camera work, sound, set design and editing. The period of study is 39 months, and is divided into three stages.

First stage

The first stage ( Cycle 1) represents a collaborative study dar. topics include film analysis, production and cost of the cinema, a video exercise three minutes in length, and creating a 16- mm film. All students should be involved in the first stage of your studies in all areas of production, from pre- to post-production. Also, an internship in a company is provided.

Second stage

The second stage ( Cycle 2) takes about eighteen months is divided into two phases and provides its own specialized training for every department. Each student should be familiar with the tools of his trade, for which he chooses. During this stage, each department organizes its teaching yourself and the exercises either extend over one or more specialist areas, such as script ( short or long film, dramaturgy, rolls), cut ( exercises for short or long films in the format 16 - and 35 - mm film ) and camera (including film lighting equipment, working with the Steadicam ). Through the exercises, students should develop more independence and can unleash their creativity. In this phase, a series of more or less long internships are to be completed by department, in France or abroad, by which the students should gain more work experience.

Third stage

The third stage ( Cycle 3) is dedicated to the personal research of the students. Students from the Faculty Director to realize a film that is produced by a student from the department of film production and involved students from different departments like production design, camera work or editing. In addition, the realization of a personal project, such as the cut of the film comes from archive material or a documentary, working on an experimental film, design a decoration or a device or writing a screenplay for a feature film. Training at the University closes with the achievement of the diploma from ( level 1, Bac 5) in which all carried out in the course of teaching exercises are evaluated.

Other courses

Degree distribution and exhibition

Since September 2003, provides the film school La fémis the degree distribution and exhibition of ( Distribution Exploitation ). The study program has been designed in collaboration with experts and representatives of the professional associations of the area and combines theoretical instruction with practical work. The seats in the 16- month course of study will be awarded through a selection process that is aimed at graduate students of the second stage under 27 years old ( at least Bac 3), or professionals from the area who have not yet reached the age of thirty, on High School and at least four years of professional experience. The training is divided into three phases and ends with the attainment of the diploma.

Screenwriting course

The duration of the course script (scripts ) is twenty-four months, and is divided into three phases. It is based partially on the first stage of training. Subject of training, in addition to film analysis, editing and camera design courses for later creating storyboards, lessons on how to write screenplays for short and feature films and organization. In addition, the students should (for example, in a TV editor) can gain work experience through internships.

The Atelier Ludwigsburg- Paris

The Atelier Ludwigsburg- Paris is a French-German one-year training program for young European film producers in the areas of materials development, production, marketing and sales in the European and international context. The workshop is conducted jointly by the Film Academy Baden- Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg and La fémis. Study leader on the German side is Peter Sehr.

L' université d' été

The L' université d' été ( Summer University Germany ) to La fémis is a program that is being organized in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Ministère of Foreign Affairs ). It is limited to a period of two months and focused on the documentary. It offers twelve interns, young film students or otherwise filmmakers from the Maghreb, Africa, Latin America, Asia (except Korea, Japan and Singapore, Central and Eastern Europe with the exception of the countries of the European Union and the Middle East opportunity to put their practical and theoretical to deepen knowledge about cinema. objective of the summer University is that every participant realizes a five minute documentary, with the command of the French language is mandatory. participants will be selected by the State Department and the film school on the basis of the application documents, the French in the are messages available in the countries covered by this training plan.

Professors

The heads of the departments and courses at La fémis (April 2006):

  • Director: Jean -Paul Civeyrac, Michka Gorky and Claire Simon
  • Film Production: Jacqueline Borne and Alain Rocca
  • Sound: Jean -Pierre Laforce, Stéphane Thiebaut and Matthieu Fichet ( assistant)
  • Camera operator: Jean -Jacques Pierre- William Glenn and Bouhon
  • Editing: Jacques Comets and Catherine interest
  • Written by: Marie- Geneviève Ripeau and Yves Thomas
  • Design: Benoît Barouh, Michel Barthelemy and Alexandre Tsékénis ( assistant)
  • Movie analysis: Alain Bergala
  • Script (scripts ): Sylvette Baudrot and Zoé Zurstrassen
  • Distribution and operation: Jean -Baptiste Dieras, Dominique Erenfrid and Jean -Michel Rey

Graduates

In more than twenty years has trained La fémis over six hundred filmmakers. A selection of the most famous graduates of film school and its predecessor, the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques ( IDHEC ):

Directors

Cutter

  • Antony Cordier

Film producers

  • Frédéric Niedermayer

Production Designer

  • Jacques Saulnier

Sound engineer

  • Pierre Excoffier (later professor at La fémis )
Île-de-France Raoul Peck
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