One of the first difficulties of writing the script is the macroscopic structure, ie the general sense of the narrative. Forget Syd FieldThere are, of course, the famous “three-act structure,” dear to Syd Field (see his famous book Screenplay), (...)

Manage a workshop with mobile phone.The Journal of animation monthly reference tool for facilitators of socio-cultural field, invited me in 2010 to write a “share folder” to transmit issues, interest and workshops about filmmaking with mobile (...)

The Franco-German channel ARTE is, like all TV channels, changing the very nature of its activities. ARTE pioneered early on the web (with ARTE Live Web ARTE creative, etc.). These new programs, these new kinds of relationship to the public, and (...)

Learning Workshop in filmmaking with mobile phone.The Speaking Cinema Association in Angers (France), which is involved since a long time in dissemination and education to the image, offered a training in filmmaking with mobile phone, which I (...)

Cinematographic creativity in the digital age in the Hauts-de-Seine: a “Pocket Films” dynamic for primary school students in three cities.The Canopé branch located in the Hauts-de-Seine department (directed by Alain Sedbon), based on the proposal (...)

I led the team for the association Documentary on Big Screen a two-day training on technologies “Digital Cinema”.Documentary on Big Screen is an association that supports the documentary in theaters and its dissemination in general, through (...)

Training methods “Pocket Films” for movie teachers in Africa. FrameCFI (French Agency Media Cooperation) proposed in the context of the “Images of Africa” ​​formation (training program for careers in television and cinema) a “Pocket Films” course of (...)

The documentality explosionBy Maurizio FerrarisContrary to the predictions of the past century, we have not witnessed the disappearance of writing but, rather, to its explosion. And more generally to the explosion of the recording. The (...)

What is a web documentary?A web documentary is an interactive audio-visual object, consisting of photographs, sounds, text, video ... which is accessed with a computer, tablet, phone ... In the case of a tablet or phone consultation with the (...)

What mindmapping is and how to use it as a professional tool. Quick synthesis. Mindmap, heuristic map or mental map?A mindmap (in english), heuristic map or mental map (in french) is a tree of words and images, created by hand or with (...)

Since four years, I coordinate and I run a large part of this training of five weeks, which aims to provide skills into the multidisciplinary field of new media .Link to the page of presentation of the Next session : November 4 to 8 December (...)

The Forum des Images cultural institution in the city of Paris, is a cultural place of film programming, offers a collection of films about Paris and beyond, as well as many resources on its website. The teams face very directly to rapid changes (...)

What is an image ?To answer this question, the first question to ask is: Why do we see? How do we see? What do we see?Keeping it simple: at the bottom of our eye, there is a “sensitive area”, which sends information to the brain, which (...)

Training new media in Picardy. Course open for registration.The training “New media, new writing, new funding” proposed by the University of Picardie and ACAP, from October 26 to 30, 2015 (duration: 30 hours) is aimed at professionals, to (...)

Vocational training for leaders, teachers and managers of social and cultural structures. Video as a Tool for Citizenship.The association Vatos Locos Video, directed by Ludovic Piette, has been involved in cultural activities around the cinema (...)

Video capture of a collective creation directed by Benoît Labourdette. Played on March 26, 2016 at the CNSAD (15 minutes).

“Today, almost everyone takes the stage on digital networks, takes a presence in the gaze of others by self-portraits interposed. What about the place of our lives? What can the theater stage, representation, and poetic gesture put into motion in (...)

Project to support psychosocial and pedagogical practices around the empathy clinic and using images. By Serge Tisseron and Benoît Labourdette, accompanied bySonia Winter.A website giving details of the methods and results opened on 1 March (...)

The concept of televisionThe goal of “tele-vision” at the beginning, as its name suggests, was able to transmit moving pictures remotely, making “live” that the cinema does not, because you have to develop the film.But how, in the early 20th (...)

Cinema is a cross between a camera and the mechanics of a sewing machine, which helped capture on a long strip of film, a large number of photos one after the other. In this instance, since 1927, it is still 24 frames per second.These (...)

As part of a course “Producing for TV” in CEFPF (European Center for Production of Films), I gave a half-day introductory course on topics “web documentary and transmedia (cross-media).”To locate the “ecosystem” of developments in the sector of (...)

“Pocket Films” trainging for social workers and street educators - Central France Region.Ciclic Regional Pole for the moving image, the book and digital cultures in central France, proposed to the social actors of the territory a three days (...)

Animation by Benoît Labourdette of a day of sharing digital mediation tools for cultural and digital mediators in the city of Nantes. September 17, 2019. Intentions and MeansIn order to transmit digital mediation tools that can be effective, it (...)

The first complete guide to filmmaking with mobile phones, Dixit publishing in 2008, which remains a reference. Free download.Download the complete book.I wrote this book to make it a concrete guide, technical as of shooting and directing. I (...)

Vocational training on technologies and strategies for developing transmedia projects.For the eighth year, I am the referent trainer of this 5-week professional training course at CEFPF (European Film Production Training Centre), intended (...)

Filmmaking techniques using cell phones for teaching French as a foreign language in Spain.The linguistic and educational Cooperation Department of the Embassy of France in Spain, Northeast Zone (Cecilia Goloboff) set up in partnership with (...)

In early 2013, Maylis Besserie, producer at France Culture radio french channel, asked me as she prepared a program about creation with smartphones.So I asked her to come for a day of training in pedagogy with mobile phone, at the Art school (...)

Expert training to technology and digital video workflows, for editing teachers from several schools in the African continent. At AFDA, Johannesburg, South Africa. Inter-school training programCFI the French Cooperation Agency media, organizes (...)

Accompaniment of a collaborative web documentary project initiated by Canopé 92 for the teachers of nine classes in the Hauts-de-Seine department. A web documentary project co-directed by 250 childrenThe Atelier Canopé 92 is at the origin of (...)

Training in digital image education at the CNFPT (Centre National de la Fonction Publique Territoriale)..The objective of this 4-day training course was to provide tools for designing, deploying, animating, financing and running image (...)

43^rd Grenoble Open Air Short Film Festival : film analysis course.

The Grenoble Open Air Short Film Festival always starts with a two-day course. For the 43rd edition of the festival in 2020, the workshop is animated by Benoît Labourdette, and takes place in video, on the theme “Short film, digital and 21st (...)

Animation of a conference by Benoît Labourdette on the issues of the new screens, October 8, 2010.“What is digital ? : The stakes of new screens”: this is the theme of the 3 days of training offered by écla Aquitaine on 6, 7 and 8 October 2010. (...)

An empirical law of computing that has more impact than we imagine on professional audiovisual practices. Gordon MooreGordon Moore, a chemist by training, is one of the co-founders of the company Intel, manufacturing microprocessors that equip (...)

Collective film (0’54s, 2019).

How do we find good reasons to leave and fight?

I developed concepts of filmmaking workshops with handheld cameras to every kind of audiences including teenagers. Very effective, creative, rewarding for young people, so constructive, yet very fun. This is a practice that I change as and when (...)

Workshops for filmmaking with pocket cameras that I run through schools of art, cinema and other vocational training centers (Femis, Le Fresnoy, ESAV Toulouse, CEFPF,Imagine Institute Ouagadougou...). Appropriating very light production (...)