The Museum Ladin Ciastel de Tor invited interested young people between the ages of 14 and 20 to take part in a comprehensive workshop led by experts to create entertaining video clips about the museum while learning all about the art of filmmaking: from handling drones, copyright, video design and the impact of images, creating scripts to recording, using sound and editing and publishing the video material.
The workshop ‘Video Spots and Drones: Filming at the Museum Ladin’ took place from 14 to 20 February 2015 (during the semester break) at the Museum Ladin Ciastel de Tor in San Martino in Badia and is organised by the museum together with the Val Badia Youth Service and the Office for Film and Media in Bolzano. The course gave a foretaste of the many activities for young people planned for the 2015 ‘Young People and Museums’ theme year. In this themed year, the museums in South Tyrol once again worked closely together to get young people interested in what they have to offer.
‘With this workshop, the Museum Ladin would like to invite young people to explore the themes of the museum and the museum environment in greater depth and show them the opportunities that museums can offer for their development,’ says Stefan Planker, Director of the Museum Ladin.
The course ‘Video spots and drones: Filming at the Museum Ladin’ began with a tour of the museum and a crash course on how to use drones – small, remote-controlled flying devices that are equipped with cameras and are increasingly being used to create video clips. The experts from Ebner Visual Communication, who are already using drones successfully, explain to the young people the controls and possible uses of the aircraft as well as the legal basis for their use.
The Ladin journalist and lawyer Silvano Ploner familiarised the young people with copyright law in films, which regulates, among other things, how photographs, film clips or audio tracks from third-party providers may be used in their own videos. They learned how to design videos, how images influence us and how these insights can be used to attract the attention of the audience from video design and video graphics expert Hannes Pasqualini.
In the second part of the workshop, the participants put what they have learnt into practice: under the coordination of Ingrid Demetz, a graduate of the Zelig film school in Bolzano, they first create a script and then film in the museum. Finally, the young people learned from Benny Valentin from Studio Davide Records how to work with audio files and how to professionally design the sound in videos.
The young people had then the possibility to edit their films at the Office for Film and Media in Bolzano. You can find the finished videos below.
> Clip de Rudi, Aaron, Jonas, Anna
> Clip de Diana y Giulia
> Clip de Alexander, Hannes, Thomas