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After its beginning one year ago, the FIEST project has entered its operational phase: lessons and writing workshops are currently in progress and will run until spring 2019.
This pilot training, open to 30 students from 6 countries, is conceived as an innovative, transnational and intercultural course on TV series writing. Made up of practical in-presence workshops, distance-learning tools, case studies by recognized professionals, it will train a new generation of writers while creating international synergies.
The 5 partner schools have started the first module dedicated to the development of series’ concepts; it will be followed, in 2019, by module 2, focused on the bible and developed also in e-learning with the Uninettuno telematic University. Finally, a third module will be devoted to the writing of pilot episodes.
1 / UNDERSTANDING THE PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT: PRELIMINARY STUDY ON SERIES
This study aims to present the series’ market in Europe and in the Mediterranean area and to understand its dimension, functioning, main dynamics and recognized working methods from the production and writing points of view.
The research intends to facilitate the comprehension of this growing sector and of the professional skills required by this specific market, with a view to implementing the FIEST training curriculum.
2/ BRINGING CLOSER THE MEDIA AND THE TRAINING SECTORS: THE MALLORCA AND TUNIS MEETINGS
The project and its first results were presented to the delegates of Euro-Mediterranean broadcasters at the COPEAM Annual Conference in Mallorca (Spain), in May 2018. Then, on the occasion of the launch of the trainings in the 5 schools, the innovative and transnational curriculum FIEST was presented on October 9 during the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage, at the presence of the Tunisian students involved in the project and of many professionals of the audiovisual and cinema sectors from the two shores of the Mediterranean and from Africa. A discussion on the issues related to the development of TV series in Tunisia and in the Mediterranean basin concluded the meeting.
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3 / THE PILOT TRAINING’S CREATIVE PROCESS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF TV SERIES’ CONCEPTS (MODULE 1)
The introductory module aims to provide the basis for serial writing. In parallel with the theoretical lessons, the students of each school, divided in working groups – according to the logic of collective writing that characterizes this professional field – have written some series’ concepts. Throughout this phase, they have also pitched their series’ proposals to the other schools’ peers and have submitted them to the critical reading of an expert from France Télévisions. After this multi-level exchange step, a jury set up by each school selected the 10 series concept projects (2 for each school) whose “bibles” and pilot episodes will be written as part of modules 2 and 3 of the training.
4 / THE E-LEARNING TOOLS: DEVELOPING A “BIBLE” (MODULE 2)
The second module of the FIEST training has the particularity to take place also on-line, thanks to the partnership with Uninettuno University.
10 video-lessons were produced together with 15 case-studies about the series sector in 5 countries (Italy, France, Tunisia, Lebanon, Morocco). After acquiring the usage methods of the e-learning platform, of the forums and of the Second Life virtual space for the interactive classes, the students have accessed this on-line didactic environment and participated in collaborative inter-schools exchanges about their writing works.
