Master in Photographic Creation and New Audiovisual Formats

The Master in Photographic Production and Storytelling will train you to be an author responsible for the creation of images and applied narrative in still photography and in the artistic direction of photographic productions.

The Master is clearly focused on photographic creation, editing and production and is fed back and complements ESCAC's extensive previous experience in the film sector, providing as a great novelty the hybridization of photographic and film formats.

The Master is made up of theoretical-practical subjects, workshops and masterclasses divided into 3 quarterly modules with a duration of 9 months in total.

With the content that is developed in each of the modules, the student must be able to carry out various practices and produce the Final Master's Thesis (TFM) in its different formalizations.

goals

The objective is to give the student creative and conceptual autonomy, focusing on a critical and contemporary look that transcends the single image to arrive at new narrative imaginaries that allow a professional approach from the production and dissemination of any type of photographic project to the editing and publication of a photobook. Through the most current editing and desktop publishing tools and artistic research processes, the Master's student will create their own language.

The student will have to conceptualize, edit and produce a variety of projects guided by the best professionals in the sector, authors of national and international prestige, theorists and specialists in the new pedagogies of the image.

Methodology

To be faithful to the photochemical tradition of ESCAC, the Master's student will carry out advanced laboratory practices and will know multiple photographic and cinematographic formats to have mastery of both analog and digital production processes. Knowing and experiencing these processes in depth is an invitation to reflect on the same photographic-cinematographic medium and its most recent history.

Photographic formats: Digital, 35mm, 120mm and large format.

Film formats: Digital, S8, 16mm and 35mm.

Why become part of the ESCAC Community?

• 1 You will become part of the ESCAC Community , which will allow you to develop your talent in an environment where creative spaces and interaction between graduates of different promotions are promoted. Did you know that Javier Ruiz Caldera continues to shoot his films with colleagues from ESCAC? The same as Juan Antonio Bayona, Mar Coll, Kike Maíllo, Patricia Font because ESCAC does not end when you finish your studies, the Community continues in the professional sector.
• 2 This is the best moment in History to dedicate yourself to Audiovisual: never has there been such a variety of screens at the service of so many users. These screens need content to supply products to a global audience and, consequently, large technology companies invest in audiovisual creation.
• 3 ESCAC Talent . Our school has trained graduates with nationally and internationally recognized careers. Film directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, VFX supervisors. Look at the credits of the films and series, you will find in them a lot of ESCAC talent.
• 4 Our pedagogical system is based on learning by doing . We want you to learn by doing, and you will do so accompanied by the best professionals in the sector.
• 5 At ESCAC we train storytellers . We will teach you to tell your story whatever the specialty you have chosen.
• 6 The work of graduates and the school's production company (ESCAC Films) have been recognized with more than 500 national and international awards : Year after year our graduates are among the nominees for the Goya and Gaudí awards, obtaining 22 Goya Awards and 46 Gaudí Awards; In addition, they have won important awards at international festivals: Award for Best International Short Film awarded by the Sundance Festival (2006), or the third award at Cinefoundation - awarded by the Cannes Festival (2015).
• 7 At ESCAC we have the collaboration of large companies and institutions that participate in the training of our students. MOVISTAR, Department of Culture of the GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA, SGAE FOUNDATION, CINESA, ZETA CINEMA, FILM FACTORY, FILMAX, DEAPLANETA, MEDIASET, LADY.
• 8 International Campus : in these more than 25 years, more than 5,500 students of 23 different nationalities have passed through our campus, contributing to the cultural and community enrichment.
• 9 Our school is recognized by CILECT (an organization that brings together the best film schools worldwide), and we are the only one in the state with official recognition.
• 10 ESCAC trains its students based on transversal competences, providing knowledge and tools to develop a subsequent professional activity in any field of content creation .

History of the ESCAC Foundation

The Superior School of Cinema and Audiovisual of Catalonia was founded in 1993 from the studies of the Professional Formation of Image and Sound of the Calassanç Center.

ESCAC is a member of the International Center of Liaison des Écoles de Cinéma et de Télévisión (CILECT), an organization that brings together 120 specialized training centers in the field of audiovisual creation, and a founding member of the Groupement Européen des Écoles de Cinéma et de Télévisión ( GEECT) and the Federation of Schools of Image and Sound of Latin America (FEISAL).

At ESCAC you will create your professional family

Did you know that Javier Ruiz Caldera is still shooting his films with fellow ESCAC members? The same as Juan Antonio Bayona, Mar Coll, Kike Maíllo, Patricia Font ... Because ESCAC does not end when you finish your studies, the Community continues in the professional sector.

From your first weeks at school, you will get used to working on projects and setting up your work teams, which in most cases will accompany you throughout your professional career.

If you want you can.

The ESCAC community is a way of making and understanding cinema

At school we encourage work by projects, in teams and with technical rigor.

Students work as a team with the aim of collaborating with each other and thus contribute to a common project. Developing the ability to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and multicultural teams. All this will allow you to develop your talent in an environment where creative spaces and interaction between graduates of different promotions are promoted.

Student support

The Student Support service, aimed at both future students and students, is formed by the coordinators of the studies and aims to advise and guide students throughout the training period through interviews and personalized attention adjusted to the circumstances, needs and characteristics of each student.

Defender of the Student

If there is any doubt, complaint or query about the academic-administrative functioning of the center, the student may request an interview with the Student Advocate. This figure, in case of not being able to attend or resolve the matter, will refer the case to the Head of Studies, who has the power to raise it before the competent bodies established by the Internal Regulations of the center.

Defender of the Student: Juanjo Caballero ext. 108. Location: ground floor building 2

The students of the ESCAC, with the objective of looking after their interests and as stated in its Internal Regulations, are duly represented within the following four organizations:

• The Academic Board of the ESCAC
• The Student Assembly
• The Disciplinary Commission
• The Quality Commission

The competences, attributions and functions of the same can be also consulted in the Regulation of Internal Regime and under follow-up of the Quality Commission of the Center.