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TESTS: FOR ALL APPLICANTS

Movie list for all courses   4 passi fra le nuvole – Alessandro Blasetti, 1942 Ossessione – Luchino Visconti, 1943 Roma città aperta – Roberto Rossellini, 1945 Paisà – Roberto Rossellini, 1946 Sciuscià – Vittorio de Sica, 1946 L’onorevole Angelina – Luigi Zampa, 1947 Ladri di biciclette – Vittorio de Sica, 1948 La terra trema

TESTS: ANIMATION

TIPS FOR PREPARING FOR THE SELECTION Animation production requires creativity, visual imagination, technical and organisational skills, a great deal of patience, the ability to accept criticism and direction, a team-working attitude and, above all, the drive and desire to make films and to tell stories to an audience. Compare yourself with this profile: do you

TESTS: COSTUME DESIGN

A good knowledge of art history is required, especially with regard to the following painters: Antonello da Messina, Piero della Francesca, Bronzino, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Hogarth, Longhi, Liotard, Gainsborough, Füssli, David, Ingres, Géricault, Hayez, Daumier, impressionisti francesi, Boldini, Sargent, Toulouse Lautrec. Films to know and comment (10 to be chosen among the following titles): Giovanna d’Arco

TESTS: CINEMATOGRAPHY

A good knowledge of art history from photography is required Recommended manuals: La fotografia nel film, voll. I e II – Blain Brown, Audino La camera chiara – Roland Barthes, Einaudi Storia della luce – Vasco Ronchi, Laterza Recommended reading: La luce necessaria. Conversazione con Luca Bigazzi, edited by Alberto Spadafora (Artdigiland, 2014, second updated edition) [available

TESTS: EDITING

Recommended reading: Tempo e spazio nel cinema – a cura di Carlo Grassi, Bulzoni, 1987 Prassi del cinema – Noel Burch. Il Castoro, 2000 Manuale di Montaggio: tecnica dell’editing nella comunicazione cinematografica e audiovisiva – Diego Cassani, Utet, 2006 L’immagine movimento. Cinema 1 – Gilles Deleuze, Ubulibri L’immagine tempo. Cinema 2 – Gilles Deleuze, Ubulibri

TESTS: PRODUCTION

Recommended manuals: Come si produce un film, voll. I-IV – C. Biondi, Audino, 2001-2002 Diritto cinematografico – Luciano Menozzi, CSC, 1995 e Marsilio, 1996; Come nasce un film – Giannandrea Pecorelli, Gremese, 2008 Films to know and comment (10 to be chosen among the following titles): Come vinsi la guerra – Buster Keaton, 1927 Luci

TESTS: ACTING

Films to know and comment: 10 to be chosen among the titles recommended to all candidates Works of literature to know and comment Due opere teatrali scelte tra le commedie di William Shakespeare, Carlo Goldoni, Anton Čechov e Luigi Pirandello Recommended reading: Alle radici dell’espressività – Mirella Bordoni L’arte della recitazione – Stella Adler Orazio

TESTS: DIRECTING

To take part in the possible second stage of the selection process (interview), a good knowledge of the history of Italian cinema from the post-war period to the present day is required. During the interview, candidates may in fact be asked questions about the most representative films of our national cinema. Studying a history of

TEST: SCEEENWRITING

Recommended manuals: Scriviamo un film – Age, Il Saggiatore Story. Contenuti, struttura, stile, principi per la sceneggiatura e per l’arte di scrivere storie, Robert McKee, Omero editore Other texts that might be useful: Il mestiere dello scrittore – John Gardner, Marietti On Writing – Stephen King, Sperling&Kupfer Senza trama e senza finale. 99 consigli di scrittura – Anton Čechov, Minimum

TESTS: PRODUCTION DESIGN

Film to know and comment: Roma, Alfonso Cuarón La favorita, Yorgos Lanthimos 1917, Sam Mendes L’ufficiale e la spia, Roman Polański Lanterne Rosse, Zhang Yimou L’armata Brancaleone, Mario Monicelli C’eravamo tanto amati, Ettore Scola Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick Novecento, Bernardo Bertolucci I Tenenbaum, Wes Anderson/David Wasco Brazil, Terry Gilliam/Norman Garwood Carosello Napoletano, Ettore Giannini Ludwig,