Learn Cinema with Luis Aller

Learn Cinema
with Luis Aller

Learn Cinema
with Luis Aller

Start whenever you want, from anywhere on the planet.

There's a way to study film that fits your life, wherever you are.

Luis Aller He has spent decades training filmmakers at Bande à Part and explaining cinema to the world through Stories from the Cinema on BTV and Filmín. Now their classes are available whenever you want, from wherever you are, with no prerequisites.

Through its online modules, you'll discover the concepts that underpin the language of cinema: framing, lighting, editing, directing actors, screenwriting, sound, point of view, and the directors and films that have defined the history of film. You'll learn to read a film in a whole new way. And that changes everything: you'll see more in every shot, understand why certain scenes affect you the way they do, and discover films and filmmakers you didn't know you needed to know about.

You don't need to know anything about film to get started. Just a desire to see it in a different way.

Expand your perspective with Luis Aller

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Module I: Framing

You will study the values ​​of scale, angle, composition, and point of view—all the elements that directors use to manipulate the viewer's emotions and empathy.

Some concepts you will study:

  • Expressive value of the scale
  • Vertical and horizontal angles
  • Optical
  • Composition:
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Module II: Light and Color

You will learn about the best cinematography through the analysis of iconic films. You will understand how storytelling is achieved through elements such as lighting and color palette.

Some concepts you will study:

  • Tone and atmosphere
  • Forms of light
  • Narrative color
  • Control the color
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Module III: Camera Movement

The different types of movements (pan, tracking, crane…) and their use to guide the audience's gaze and work on the internal montage to the shot.

Some concepts you will study:

  • Typologies
  • Successivity vs. Simultaneity
  • To guide the gaze
  • Writing with the camera
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Module IV: Sound, Dialogues and Music

How the characters' emotions are expressed through audio and the soundscapes. Verbal rhythms, voice-over, and soundtrack as narrative tools.

Some concepts you will study:

  • Sound becomes language
  • Possible uses of sound
  • Dialogue in counterpoint
  • Music: Barry Lyndon Analysis
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Module V: Cinematographic Space

You will analyze the nature of film territory and its expressive possibilities. The use of sets and locations as a dramatic resource in stories.

Some concepts you will study:

  • Functions of space
  • Global space design
  • The transfigured space
  • How to film a space
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Module VI: Film Editing

Why editing is key in audiovisual creation. Its different types, filmic ellipsis, and the value of time in film as a construction tool.

Some concepts you will study:

  • Plan steps
  • Assembly structures
  • Film time
  • Order and ellipsis
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Module VII: Directing Actors

The different acting styles and their working techniques. A journey through the best performances and direction of actors and actresses.

Some concepts you will study:

  • Tone
  • Gesture
  • Text
  • Expression

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