A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO CINEMA: Workshop for Teenagers

In this two day workshop, we will learn the basics of filmmaking – starting from the essentials of operating a camera, including basic lighting, framing, and camera movement.

Through a series of short exercises, all participants will get their hands dirty with the camera and learn to shoot basic portraits of people and landscapes.

During the second day of the workshop, we will practice how we can use the camera and the visual language to tell a story – how a series of images can be more than the sum of their parts. We will use the surrounding environment of the city and the landscape to collectively shoot a short film.

No prior experience of filmmaking is necessary to participate in this workshop. The workshop will be adapted to the skill level of the participants, starting from an introductory perspective.

INSTRUCTORS

Stergios Dinopoulos is a graduate of Harvard University’s Visual Studies – Film & Video Production department. He is a director, cinematographer and photographer who makes fiction films, dance videos, video installations and documentaries. He has taught photography and storytelling to young adults, including photography seminars for teenage refugees for “The Unmentionables” project, as well as art workshops for young children at PIKPA in Lesvos. He is interested in collective practices, environmental issues and the politics of our virtual and physical commons.

Arsinoi Pilou was born in Athens and raised in Corfu, Greece. She studied film and cinematography in the Fine Arts Department at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema of Lisbon. Her approach to the field of cinematography combines an artistic eye with technical insight. Since 2015, she has worked on a range of audiovisual productions for film and TV, although she favors independent projects where she can experiment with new ways of diving into the art of expression through the lens.