ESCAC - Escuela superior de Cinema y Audivisuales de catalunya

Master in Photographic Creation and New Audiovisual Formats

The Master's Degree in Photographic Creation and New Audiovisual Formats will train you to become a responsible author of image creation and narrative applied to still photography and the artistic direction of photographic productions.

The Master is clearly focused on photographic creation, editing and production and is fed back and complements ESCAC's extensive previous experience in the film sector, providing as a great novelty the hybridization of photographic and film formats.

The Master's degree consists of theoretical and practical subjects, workshops, and masterclasses divided into three quarterly modules lasting eight months, plus the presentation of the Master's Final Project (TFM).

With the content that is developed in each of the modules, the student must be able to carry out various practices and produce the Final Master's Thesis (TFM) in its different formalizations.

goals

The objective is to give the student creative and conceptual autonomy, focusing on a critical and contemporary look that transcends the single image to arrive at new narrative imaginaries that allow a professional approach from the production and dissemination of any type of photographic project to the editing and publication of a photobook. Through the most current editing and desktop publishing tools and artistic research processes, the Master's student will create their own language.

The student will have to conceptualize, edit and produce a variety of projects guided by the best professionals in the sector, authors of national and international prestige, theorists and specialists in the new pedagogies of the image.

Methodology

To be faithful to the photochemical tradition of ESCAC, the Master's student will carry out advanced laboratory practices and will know multiple photographic and cinematographic formats to have mastery of both analog and digital production processes. Knowing and experiencing these processes in depth is an invitation to reflect on the same photographic-cinematographic medium and its most recent history.

Photographic formats: Digital, 35mm, 120mm and large format.

Film formats: Digital, S8, 16mm and 35mm.

Why become part of the ESCAC Community?

• 1 You will become part of the ESCAC Community , which will allow you to develop your talent in an environment where creative spaces and interaction between graduates of different promotions are promoted. Did you know that Javier Ruiz Caldera continues to shoot his films with colleagues from ESCAC? The same as Juan Antonio Bayona, Mar Coll, Kike Maíllo, Patricia Font because ESCAC does not end when you finish your studies, the Community continues in the professional sector.
• 2 This is the best moment in History to dedicate yourself to Audiovisual: never has there been such a variety of screens at the service of so many users. These screens need content to supply products to a global audience and, consequently, large technology companies invest in audiovisual creation.
• 3 ESCAC Talent . Our school has trained graduates with nationally and internationally recognized careers. Film directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, VFX supervisors. Look at the credits of the films and series, you will find in them a lot of ESCAC talent.
• 4 Our pedagogical system is based on learning by doing . We want you to learn by doing, and you will do so accompanied by the best professionals in the sector.
• 5 At ESCAC we train storytellers . We will teach you to tell your story whatever the specialty you have chosen.
• 6 The work of graduates and the school's production company (ESCAC Films) have been recognized with more than 500 national and international awards : Year after year our graduates are among the nominees for the Goya and Gaudí awards, obtaining 22 Goya Awards and 46 Gaudí Awards; In addition, they have won important awards at international festivals: Award for Best International Short Film awarded by the Sundance Festival (2006), or the third award at Cinefoundation - awarded by the Cannes Festival (2015).
• 7 At ESCAC we have the collaboration of large companies and institutions that participate in the training of our students. MOVISTAR, Department of Culture of the GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA, SGAE FOUNDATION, CINESA, ZETA CINEMA, FILM FACTORY, FILMAX, DEAPLANETA, MEDIASET, LADY.
• 8 International Campus : in these more than 25 years, more than 5,500 students of 23 different nationalities have passed through our campus, contributing to the cultural and community enrichment.
• 9 Our school is recognized by CILECT (an organization that brings together the best film schools worldwide), and we are the only one in the state with official recognition.
• 10 ESCAC trains its students based on transversal competences, providing knowledge and tools to develop a subsequent professional activity in any field of content creation .