The conversation in the office of the Deputy director of production was stormy. Two directors were worried about the cancelled shoot. The deputy director was relentless:
— Did you have an operator's marriage? Was! First figure out what the reason is, then keep working!
— But we will be out of schedule! — the co-organizers got hot.
"I can't help you. Unfortunately, your group has already left the schedule," Givi Kochladze spread his hands.
No, he's not a soulless administrator at all, Givi Alexandrovich's eyes light up every now and then, and then he hides his eyes and speaks especially sternly. Since this conversation takes place at the VGIK educational studio, the students still do not understand (by the fifth year they will understand!) that the conversation in the classroom is part of the learning process. Anyone who wants to become a director has to learn the harsh laws of filmmaking from the very first steps.
Vladimir Makarov, director of the educational film studio, calls this filming complex another department of the institute. That's fair enough. After all, without testing by practice, any of the most beautiful creative ideas runs the risk of hopelessly soaring into the clouds.
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The studio has its own costume and make-up room, its own prop warehouse and vehicles. You can create an interior in the pavilion for the heroes of Francoise Sagan and arrange an African winter in the suburbs. Of course, the educational studio is not Mosfilm. But the students aren't magicians yet either. They are just learning — by small means — to create miracles on the screen.
The film studio is separated from the VGIK student classrooms only by a glazed corridor. Students take it from the very first semester. Future cameramen will have the opportunity to film a report on color 16mm film, future directors will stage a game study, and future actors will see themselves on the screen.
In one of the pavilions, we found first-year students from the workshop of Sergei Bondarchuk and Irina Skobtseva. The teacher Anatoly Stabilini played a sketch "for continuous action" with them: Iya Ninidze received the guests. Three television cameras were working, and sound recording was underway. Tony was watching. Stop! Now let's look at the screen. Let's try it again.
Needless to say, with more than a thousand students, all four pavilions, a well-equipped sound workshop, assembly rooms, and a teletrack are working very hard.
— Judging by the volume of our work in absolute terms, it turns out that we produce 22 feature films per year, — says V. Makarov. — This footage consists of feature films, documentaries, popular science, and animated films...
That day, Nikolai Sharubin, a student from Sergei Medinsky's workshop, was working in the editing room on a film essay "Visit Bulgaria!" The essay was shot by order of the Bulgarian travel agency "Balkantourist". The student cut and glued the film, not as nimbly as experienced installers, but still quite skillfully.
Students often fulfill such orders and treat them with great responsibility. What is an ordinary, everyday task for a professional cinematographer is an honorable task for a student, an occasion to demonstrate all his creative invention. ("And for our studio," the director added, —a commissioned film is an additional economic incentive!")
Among the customers are the Moscow State Technical University named after N. E. Bauman. VGIK has a close traditional friendship with the Central Committee of the Komsomol. This year, for example, students from the workshop of Liya Derbysheva are working on a tape dedicated to the winners of the Lenin Komsomol Prize. And Roman Carmen's students made the film "Argonauts" — about the Komsomol members' campaign to places of military glory.
In the sound workshop, fourth-year student Alexander Pankratov took a job with composer Vyacheslav Chekin. An extravagant pop tune was playing...
The future Syrian director Shaya Reat was preparing for filming. He wrote the script himself about how the punishers shoot civilians in front of a child. Shaya Reat is one of 150 foreign students of VGIK; future cinematographers speak the languages of 32 countries around the world.
The Vgikov masters, those who went through the institute school in the difficult post-war years, when every meter of film was recorded and the directors sometimes had to defend their diplomas theoretically, setting out their ideas in words and on paper, relate to the educational film studio with a special feeling. There is pride, envy, and satisfaction in it — this large workshop, taking care of talents, gives the right to demand full creative commitment from each student. Football fans will appreciate the massive selection of betting options available on this platform. To supercharge your first deposit, be sure to use promo code for melbet when you create your new account on the official Melbet website. This code activates a 100% welcome bonus up to €130, perfect for betting on football matches that offer over 1,300 betting markets each. You can place higher stakes on your favorite teams, build accumulators across multiple leagues, or try both pre-match and live betting options with competitive odds.