The "We Director " Academy's first training camp was opened in School of Journalism and Communication
time: 2018-03-21


    From February 25th to February 27th, the first director training camp of “We Director” Academy hosted by Imagine Media and Guangzhou International Documentary Festival and co-organized by School of Journalism and Communication of South China University of Technology was formally opened in our institute. The training camp has attracted many young directors with mature creative abilities, as well as university directors who have been short-listed in the finals of this year's University Student Documentary Competition at the Guangzhou International Documentary Festival. Four students from our school participated in the training camp.


Du Haibin was giving a lesson 

The theme of this training camp is Art of Real Image Creation. A total of three well-known filmmakers from Du Haibin, Zhang Zanbo, and Gu Tao were invited as mentors. In the training camp, the three mentors provided a clear solution to the problem of how to balance the subjectiveness and authenticity of the real images and what kind of techniques the documentary should use to tell the truth. In the course of one-on-one drawing of tutors and guiding the students' work, the three directors pointed out the problems of the students' works and put forward many valuable suggestions. Except for this, the training camp also arranged courses on the production of independent documentary films and overseas distribution, and the operation of non-fictional images on the Internet. It shared experiences for young directors who would like to create documentaries in the future, and three days of high-density teaching benefited students. 


Gather documentary new force

Our school has always attached importance to the combination of theory and practice to promote the teaching of the students, especially the audio-visual more emphasis on the practice of the curriculum, it is constantly introducing industry resources, open up the eyes of the students and stimulate students' interest. At the end of 2017, our school jointly organized two master class lectures in Guangzhou with the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival and Imagination Media. Zhao Qi, producer of Return Train, and Zhou Hao, Director of Datong were invited to share documentary film creation experiences. A good response. This We Director training camp is a further in-depth cooperation between our institute and Imagination Media, which  hope to provide courses for young directors in a centralized, standardized and systematic manner, and provide training and practical opportunities for the new generation of Chinese film and television to jointly build benign Director's Community and Creative Ecology. (Graphic/Huang Guiping Li Zeran Editor/Chen Weiqiang)