Courses & Workshops

A game based workshop for experimenting the rules of visual language. Participants use the cards of My Photography Toolbox to analyse existing pictures and to create their own photographs.
This activating method is an eye-opener in visual literacy for both the beginner and the practitioner.

MAIN GOAL:
applying and absorbing the principles of visual language.
COMPETENCES:
Be able to read images correctly. Argue on visual works based on the underlying theory. Make pictures with control on the meaning.
ADDRESSED TO:
Photography students, Design students, art practicioners and image makers in general.
Secondary Education:
we tailor make the workshop adapted to the competences and the credits.
Design professionals:
a 3 hour workshop on how to use the cards as a tool kit to design visuals.
FORMAT:
3 to 12 hours

Pressure Cook workshop on your relation to the public space and the rules that govern it.
Through various design methods and field research the participant observes and participates on her environment to create a social intervention from an speculative perspective. How are we "situated" in our communities and how to contribute with change are the main questions addressed.

GOAL:
Creating a challenging design to become familiar of how to influence the future.
COMPETENCES:
be able to analyze the context you are in and to design with a grounded perspective.
ADDRESSED TO:
design students and designers interested in active, participatory projects.
FORMAT:
30 to 60 hours.

A technique to turn words into images in search of multiple literary meanings.
The workshop is based on: deep script reading and analysis; planning shots with vectors and directing actors.

GOAL:
Direct, plan and shoot a scene in which the subtext is displayed and understood without words.The outcome is a visual plan with shots and vectors, and the resulting produced and edited scene.
COMPETENCES:
Be able to communicate the tension and the subtext in the script.
ADDRESSED TO:
Film and audiovisual makers.
FORMAT: 26 to 30 hours
3 hours theory, 3 hours reading and analyzing, 6 hours planning and preparation, 4 hours rehearsal, 3 hours shooting, 4 hours editing, 3 hours screening and conclusions.

A playful effective activity for group cohesion. Designed to help group members know each other and connect in an open way. The sensory friendly game Lost Prince by PonsVerhoog is the tool for introducing each other or changing group dynamics.

GOAL:
The game can be used to improve radars and listening skills, acquire confidence, release tension, obtain new perspectives, eliminate prejudices, practice fast and grounded decision-making. After the game play, the group is directed to analyse, compare and reflect on the experience.
COMPETENCES:
Social and interpersonal skills
ADRESSED TO:
Students at all levels, employees, sport teams...
FORMAT:
2 to 3 hours
Role playing, analysis, feedback session.
Publics and Formats
Companies & Institutions: 1 hour activity + 2 hour extended workshop for groups of 8 members minimum.
Children, Young Adult and Adult Schools: a 2 hour activity for groups up to 26 members.

While learning the broad origins of ideas, the concepts of originality, intertextuality, adaptation, interpretation and recycling, the students open their minds to the fact that there are many techniques to come up with ideas. Developing them with narrative or expressive purposes is a harder work. Students use a customized deck of cards to learn how to deconstruct a number of creative processes and experiment some by themselves.

Outcome: a structured document with the basic story for a film.

GOAL:
Practicing the basic topics on screen writing by freely combining elements.
COMPETENCES:
Being able to find your own voice and storytelling style
ADRESSED TO:
Audiovisual and Film students
FORMAT:
Around 30 hours
Can be customized to the type of students.

CRITICAL RESPONSE

When was the last time that you had an idea and you had such good feedback that allowed you to implement it?

In a world in which the gesture of a click entitles us as voters and the same action towards what we publish gives us more or less presence/ importance, giving a reflected-critical response is more and more scarce.

This workshop trains the participants to ground and organize their impressions and thoughts in structured way, with a clear purpose, a proper style always based on the status of the work and on the idea of helping the creator to gain new perspectives.

GOAL: Learn how to give proper feedback.

COMPETENCES: Understand a maker’s purpose and contribute with a critical response.

ADDRESSED TO: Makers and designers, journalists and professionals interested in writing reviews.

FORMAT: 10 hours.

2 hour theory, 2 hour fast creation activity and analysis, 2 hour screening and debate, 1 hour tool presentation, 3 hour pitches preparation, presentations, use of the tool and conclusions.

Read more on our post: http://ponsverhoog.org/feedback/