The BIP in stuttgart 2023 report

Abstract

During one week in July 2023, 37 students and teachers of Hochschule der Medien from Stuttgart, Lusófona from Lisbon and INSAS from Brussels got together in Stuttgart to shoot a short awareness type ad warning on climate change. This international project was made possible by the EU as a Blended Intensive Program (BIP).

A BIP is a short ERASMUS project gathering together students of multiple European schools not only interested in the pedagogical acquirements allowed by the program but also having the desire to meet foreign students and staff, develop their transversal skills such as communication and research, and get exposed to other views, knowledges and teaching methods.

The goal of this international crew shooting was for everyone to acquire experience from a new technology called virtual production. HdM owns a 3x3 meters LED wall and a set of tracking cameras fit to show in studio a 3D environment moving accordingly to the camera. Use of this type of technology is increasing across film studios today. It was showcased in large audience series such as Mandalorian (2019) and 1899 (2022). It’s meant to allow a lot of on-set special effects: create any type of easily customizable environments, match harmoniously background and foreground in terms of lighting reflections, colors, perspective, and help the actors’ immersion in set-decoration.

This report is a collaboration of the participants, Jim Bouyer (one of them)  wrote it