Jani Ilomäki, student of our Degree Programme in Film and Television, is the winner of the Blue Sea Film Festival Golden Baltic Herring Award last weekend.

His film "Awakening" also won the first prize in the student film competition of the festival. The jury statement was: “The story-telling was poetic, entertaining and concise. The story poetically illustrated one of the more profound and personal moments in the development of a child.”

The synopsis of the film is: "A boy sees a girl. A girl sees a boy"

In addition his also his films Juurtuneet (In a Rut) and Ajatuksia kuolevaisuudesta (Thoughts about dying) were invited to the festival.

Also next weekend will be very busy for Jani, he's one of the key organisators of the Reikäreuna Film Festival, 5-8 September 2013, Orivesi

Congratulation and good luck, Jani!

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The second photography exhibition of our cinematography students is open in the giant drum washer at our main entrance this and next week.

This is their statement: 
"Same basis, different results.

At first there was the song "Wait" by M83. The song was the inspiration and from there we went to different directions. In the end we came together as an exhibition.

The exhibitors are third and fourth grade cinematography students from Tampere University of Applied Sciences."

TAMK celebrated World Water Day on March 21st 2013. Second year Film and Television students got a task to create some 1.5 min. films  using the Quick and Green -method.

The main character begs the pastor for aid with the apple flavoured mineral water

The films were done fast and the shooting lasted only one day. The film production adapted more environment friendly methods.

Juho Aittanen, director of the film Omenavichy (Apple flavoured mineral water) describes the process:

"So we made a sketch for the World Water Week. The assignment was to make a 1,5 minute short film which could be shot in a day and would address the subject of water.

With a rebellious attitude our group decided that we would make the connection to Water Week as far fetched as possible.

In the end after a couple of missteps (an 8 hour brainstorming session ending with a plot for a 30 minute spy-thriller about water wars) the end product is surprisingly not a disgrace of my short career. Come to think of it I kind of fancy it."

Tampere Film Festival Youth Jury Award went to Thoughts About Dying (Ajatuksia kuolevaisuudesta, 2012) by Jani Ilomäki. Congratulations!

The Mass of Men directed by Gabriel Gauchet (2012), a fiction from United Kingdom, won the Grand Prix at Tampere Film Festival International Competition.
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About Thoughts about Dying:
Boy wonders about death.

Eight-year-old Antti is told that his dog should put to sleep. Antti will have his first facing with death, and he begins to think what death means.

The film is director’s (Jani Ilomäki), cinematographer’s (Mikko Parttimaa), producer’s (Julia Elomäki) and production designer’s (Salla Lehtikangas) diploma work in Tampere University of Applied Sciences 2012.

Read more on the film official web site (bilingual Finnish/English)

By Teppo Nieminen

Everything doesn’t always go as planned. On intensive course week on October many students chose Video techniques and expressions and excitingly listened how our lecturer, Mikko Uimonen told us about the meaning and purpose of shots and angles and gave us a task of making a film the following days with a ready script he had made. Our enthusiasm became even greater later that day when we got to see the equipment we’d be working on. We couldn’t wait for the next day!

Then things started to go downhill. Mikko told us he was sick and wouldn’t be teaching us on Tuesday. He, however, encouraged us to start on our videos and said that he would be back the next day. He wasn’t. And not even the day after that. Some people found interest to make something out of the materials and equipment but most of to applied people dropped out from the course and it was officially cancelled. Or was it?

Couple of weeks later Mikko contacted the few still wanting to participate and asked if we wanted to have couple of evening lectures and then make a video and report to get the credits. So we did. We had four evening lessons in which we learned about the camera and the handling of it, the video styles, audio and lighting. Then we got the instructions to do two films, one more difficult and scripted than the other one.

The second (the bigger and scripted) film of our group, including the author, Yonathan Wolowelsky, Joanne Wong and Jungsoo Moon, was shot on the last weekend of November. Before that we had serious discussions about the script, storyboard, actors, roles and scenes we would make and in which order. Going to the weekend, everything was looking great. I mean, how hard it could be?


Very. From start we had problems with props and lighting, things that would continue to annoy us trough whole of the weekend. There was arguing and there was some disagreements but we overcame our disagreements and filmed it on two long days. In total it took us 16 and half hours to shoot footage for 4 minute film.

Welcome to the film world, I guess.

For the film:



For the production diary:


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Our 3rd year Film & Television programme students have made seven promotional films for the Tampere AllBright! campaign of Tampere Region Economic Development Agency Tredea. Also many Media programme students supported production of some of them.

The goal was to make something different compared to traditional promotional movies. Looking at the feedback it seems the students have succeeded in this, but judge yourself. We publish the videos in two parts. Here's three of them all titled Stop the Nonsense:








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Our 3rd year Film & Television programme students have made seven promotional films for the Tampere AllBright! campaign of Tampere Region Economic Development Agency Tredea. Also many Media programme students supported the production of some of them.

The goal was to make something different compared to traditional promotional movies. Looking at the feedback it seems the students have succeeded in this, but judge yourself. We publish the videos in two parts, here's the first four of them:










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Our second year Film&TV students practiced doing quick one minute movies.
Here's one of them, it demonstrates the relaxed atmosphere in Tampere.

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Our second year Film&TV students practiced doing quick one minute movies.
Here's one of them, more to come soon!

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Our second year Film&TV students practiced doing quick one minute movies.
Here's one of them, more to come soon!

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The Ice Screen Project exhibition just opened. I don't even try to explain what our international students have done coached by Environmental Art Lecturer Vesa Toukomaa. It is brilliant, awesome, absolutely fabulous.
You have to come to experience it yourself.
The exhibition is open at Spede, 2nd floor daytime still next week.
The modest photos I took with my toy camera just give a foggy idea of the show.
Cai
Read more about the annual Ice Screen Project
Visit Ice Screen Project 2011 web site

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   ISP 2012 :: Teaser Trailer from hermaxx on Vimeo.

It seems that in our fast-changing, crowded with new technologies world, everything is so common that there is nothing to amaze us. But the idea of a unique project organized by TAMK is a challenge. During one week of cutting and lifting ice blocks from a frozen lake in Lapland and assembling them to huge-sized custom-shaped ice screens which are being projected on, students are given the opportunity not only to work with ice in terms of large-scale sculpturing but also to explore new ways and possibilities

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Story by Sabrina Seidl
A punch of international students joined the intensive course Visual styles by Christ Hales to learn more about the way of shooting a video and its post production.
The course was a mixture of theory about visual styles, the basics of films and film production but also practical exercises where we had to present different visual styles and produce a video, using different styles and editing it in post production.
The group split up in several smaller groups and decided a theme for the movie they were going to produce. The timeline was quite tight, the equipment and the ideas were interesting even if vague in some cases, but the outcome of all of them was fantastic.
One project was about creating a music video, another one made the topic about post production to its main theme. A third group was experimenting with HDR, some were taking snow and liquids as their main theme, also a pinhole camera has been produced for one of the movie and more.

Here a short introduction of some of the movies produced during the workshop:

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Story and photos: Erika Kim
We had a Video Technique and Expression workshop from Jan 9 – 15, 2012. It was an intensive course between Christmas break and spring semester. So we all met at Finlayson Campus (TTVO) café 10:30am on Monday. The lecturer was Ville Salminen from Obscure Entertainment.

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As I was teaching scriptwriting to the Film & TV students last Monday and Tuesday, I noticed something strange. The assignment was to write a short dialogue scene between two unnamed people, A and B. Each student could decide what kind of people these two characters were.
To my surprise, most of the students wrote scenes between two male characters. One group of about 20 students, for instance, had only two scripts with a female character. I asked the students if they had noticed the invisibility of women in their scenes, and they themselves seemed also surprised by the result.

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Story: Suvi Hokkanen and Alicia Fernández
This week the students of Finlayson Campus had a great opportunity of having a session with Fred Fuchs, a producer who was born in the United States and has worked for several years in both USA and Canada. He has had the opportunity to work with big names in Hollywood, such as Francis Ford Coppola. Some of the projects he mentioned during the session included God Father III, Dracula and the Tudors.

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Text by Susanne Wasserlechner (exchange student)
During the semester break the most exchange students made some trips or used the time to go home. But one course in this semester break sounded too interesting, in order to miss it. The "Video Technique & Expression"  was about filming, lighting, camera techniques and editing. It was held by Ville Salminen from Obscure Entertainment.

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