MasterClass – David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film

Description : David Lynch, the world-famous avant-garde director, will introduce you to arthouse films. Oscar-nominated director "Mulholland Drive" talks about an interdisciplinary creative process. You will learn how he finds ideas, transforms them into stories, and goes beyond the scope of a template narrative. Take part in a David workshop and try to experience the boundaries of your own artistic expressiveness yourself.

1.Introduction: The Art of Living
Meet your new instructor: Academy Award nominee director and artist David Lynch. In his first lesson, David talks about the importance of deeply exploring topics and ideas and encourages you to search for exciting ideas in your pursuit of creativity.

2. Finding Ideas
For David, ideas are everything. Learn how to benefit from your intuition and life experiences in order to unleash powerful sources of creative inspiration.

3.Creativity and the writing process
Writing is a way to remember ideas that come to mind. Learn how to get over the writing block, and also why David thinks that there is no formula for creating a good script.

4. Self-education
David believes that the best learning is practical experience. He shares the lessons learned from his first experiments in the cinema, and discusses the masters of cinema who inspired him.

5. Character
Casting Casting is an intuitive process that can lead to exciting discoveries and collaboration. Learn how to identify and recognize an actor suitable for the role, and listen to David discuss his work with his favorite artists.

6. Working with
rehearsal actors is the time of stage formation and risk. David will teach you how to unlock acting potential in front of the camera and achieve an unforgettable show.

7. On the stage: Creating a happy family
Treat your team as a happy family, and she will do her best. Find out how David handles the workload on set, while preserving creative space for the cast and crew.

8. Sales design: Creating unique worlds. The
world on the screen begins with the director’s idea. David shares with designers several techniques for conveying ideas that encourage improvisation throughout his work.

9. Cinema: Manifesting David’s Vision
Using vibrant black and white examples from the Eraser and Elephant Man films, David will teach you to think in cinematography.

10. Sound design and soundtrack
Proper music can take any cinematic element to a new level. Discover how David works with composers and sound engineers to create the perfect mix of sound and image.

11. Violation of the rules
Rules are irreplaceable when driving, but for movies? David doesn’t like the rules. Learn to distinguish rules that stifle creativity from rules that really help to think outside the box.

12. Let your project fit the ideas.
Every artist fights the fear of failure and the pressure of success. David encourages you to keep your creative decisions focused on one critical goal: staying true to your idea.

13. Transcendental Meditation
David practices transcendental meditation twice a day. Learn a greater awareness of life and a deeper understanding through meditation, learn to enjoy the "execution" of almost any activity.