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Reportage Course

Course’s duration: 10 lessons of 2 hours each

Cost of the course: €200

Description:

The purpose of this course is to design a photo-journalistic report from any specific point of view. It will be explain how to read a photo, choosing the right technique for taking pictures of reportage, identify the strong compositional elements, explanation and use of internal and external contexts, how to communicate feelings and information through pictures, how to make photographs with an artistic subject (painting, literature, dance, music, …), construction of a sequence of photos, creating a photo-journalistic story; up to the realization of a comprehensive report. There will also be an analysis and a discussion of photographs of many prominent photojournalist.

N.B.: You must have at least a camera with a wide angle lens (24mm, 28mm, 35mm).

Topics:

Photography in photojournalism: general characteristics and the use of the flash.

Image reading: contexts, forms, contents.

Background as contextualization.

Types of shots.

Key elements and effective compositional structures.

Photojournalism in color: the harmonic or discordant relations.

Key points to write a story.

How to build a photographic sequence.

Other forms of art in photography: literature, cinema, music, painting, dance.

Musical tones in photography.

How to think and make a photojournalist project.