SIGMA WORKSHOP / STORYTELLER . Multidisciplinary teamwork. Teachers: OAK stories
JAVIER CORSO
WINNER PHOTON GRANT 2015
Place: La Nau Cultural Centre
Dates: May 9th and 10th.
Schedule: From 9am to 14pm
Free registration
For the first time and thanks to Sigma’s sponsorship, the Photon workshops will be free of charge.
This year, the workshop sponsored by Sigma will be hosted by Storytellers of OAK Agency, an organization of professional journalists and visual storytellers specializing in the development of documentary projects.
To be able to access one of the twelve places in the workshop you must register using the form on the website.
The twelve people attending will be chosen by the OAK Agency team. The selection criteria will be the work carried out by the candidates and the importance that the tools they will receive during the two days of the workshop may imply in the development of their projects.
Your website will be what they evaluate so make sure you have everything you want to show to the world and OAK organization.
PRESENTATION:
STORYTELLERS:
At present there is a worrying tendency on the part of the media to concentrate in a single figure the tasks that are typical of a team of informants. At OAK stories we believe in the specialization and quality of those projects in which each professional plays his or her own role. This course is mainly aimed at graphic documentary filmmakers who want to learn about the dynamics of teamwork when telling stories.
To this purpose, the workshop will be divided into two parts: The first of theoretical nature will cover the three main phases of the development of a project – pre-production, execution and post-production – seen from 4 different points of view, but giving special importance to the relationship between the photographer and the rest of the team in the different stages; a total of 5 hours with 2 professionals from different branches of the documentary field beyond photography: cinema, journalism and research. Throughout these sessions, OAK stories professionals will showcase their teamwork throughout the life cycle of a complete project.
The second will have a duration of 5 hours and will focus on the creation of workgroups in class, where each member will assume a different role from the photographer in order to empathize and understand the needs of other team members, and must work together in a pre-production simulation of a documentary project.
TEMARY:
1. PRE-PRODUCTION
• CHOICE OF THEME
• LINES OF RESEARCH
• AESTHETIC REFERENCES
• LOGISTICS
• BUDGETS
• CONTACT
2. EXECUTION
• SPECIALIZATION
• TEAMWORK METHODOLOGY
• EQUIPMENT COORDINATION
• COMPLEMENTARY ROLES
3. POST-PRODUCTION
• REORGANIZATION OF WORK ROLES
• ORGANIZATION OF ARCHIVES
• PROCESSING OF INFORMATION AND CONTENTS
• TIME MANAGEMENT AND CALENDARS
• DISTRIBUTION, SALES and COMMUNICATION
4. TEAM-BASED PROJECT SIMULATION
• PRE-PRODUCTION BY TEAMS
Students must choose a topic to work on and organize themselves to prepare the pre-production of this project. The role of team coordinator will be assigned to one of the members, who in turn will have one of the roles to be played in the project. Its function will be that of the pre-production tasks and to compile a brief report at the end of the session.
The rest of the team will be in charge of preparing a project in aspects such as logistics, research lines, stylistic references, organizing the budget and agenda of contacts
JAVIER CORSO Fotógrafo documental & Director de la agencia OAK stories
Javier Corso (1989) empezó a trabajar como documentalista en el año 2011. Como director de la agencia y productora de proyectos documentales OAK stories, coordina cada proyecto realizado por los distintos equipos de trabajo multidisciplinares. Es también responsable de la sección audiovisual y fotógrafo sobre el terreno.
Sus proyectos han sido publicados en medios como AlJazeera, TIME, GEO, El País, El Mundo, VICE o la Revista 5W, entre otros. Su obra ha sido expuesta en destacados centros culturales y festivales de la imagen como el Instituto Cervantes de New York, el Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque, el Florida Museum of Photographic Arts y los festivales de fotografía PHOTON (España), FOTO WEEK DC (Estados Unidos) y VISA OFF (Francia). Entre los galardones recibidos por sus fotografías destacan la Beca del International PHOTON Festival, una medalla de bronce en los Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3), el tercer premio en los Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA), varias menciones de honor en los International Photography Awards (IPA) y el Jessica Lum Award a la excelencia en fotoperiodismo. En 2016 resulta finalista de los World Reporter Award Documenting Humanity en la categoría European Photographer.
En 2015 publica su primer libro fotográfico titulado “Fi Su”, compuesto por imágenes del proyecto FISHSHOT que versa sobre la soledad y el aislamiento emocional dentro de la sociedad finlandesa. Un año después funda la agencia de proyectos documentales OAK stories y firma la producción asociada de su primer film documental con la cadena autonómica española TV3.
Corso se formó como fotógrafo en las aulas del Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya (IEFC), se postgraduó en fotoperiodismo en la Universidad autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) y es Master en Dirección de Fotografía Cinematográfica por la Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC). A participado en workshops de la mano de fotógrafos de la agencia Magnum y VII photo.
