ABOUT
bring your unique voice and artistic process to life and build stories that
need to be told.
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The workshop From Space to Story will give you tools in examine and processing “the reality” as a foundation for any storytelling. You will be coached in a documentary method and narrative process developed over more than 25 years, applied on projects of various formats.
The starting point of the workshop is investigating and defining an existing space, as a catalysator for your artistic process. You will examine a close surrounding or a location from a memory or an archive. The process evokes the creation of organic scenery, character-development and situations. It concretizes the elements of your story as well as deepen it. The method will be applied on a project of your own, an individual project or a collective work, already in development or to be found.
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In the first part of the workshop, you will be collecting and building content for storytelling, through research of a space and writing assignments (see more under “Definition of a Space”). The research can also involve photographing, sketching, recording sound and/or interviewing people. If you use, or want to use, dialogue one part of From Space to Story focuses on dialogue-writing assignments, where a method called
“the power of small words” is tutored and trained.
The dramaturgy, the structuring of the story-content, is worked on in the end of the workshop. It opens for an orchestration that follows your vision, temperament and artistic process. Your story will be chiseled and defined to its core. Having said that, From Space to Story will not push it into pre-fixed models or premature structuring nor formatting.
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The goal with From Space to Story is to give new perspectives on narrative processes and storytelling. The workshop also focuses on strategies for sustainable artistic development: how to stand grounded and create a safe place in the process, where the process might become the result itself. It equipes you for future meetings with co-workers, financiers and the upcoming audience or target-group. One part of the workshop involves reflections upon ethics and various discourses of our time.
From Space to Story applies to any narrative process and media – and its method can be used on any storytelling, text, sound-and/or visual-based, performative or mediated.
During the years the workshop has been coached to storytellers from a wide range of experiences and backgrounds. Hence: From Space to Story bring your unique voice and artistic process to life and build stories that need to be told.
DEFINITION OF SPACE
The definition of a space ranges from a physical room, outdoor, indoor, galactical, to an internal place – a memory, a state of mind, a dream, a mental place. The word “space”, itself, has less limitations than the words “place” and “site”.
A place is a position/location often used with people and objects. A site is where something is at, used for architectural places, buildings, zones or blocks.
Example ONE:
We are site seeing in the morning, then we eat at that Falafel place.
Example two:
There are great places for dining in New York and a lot of memorial sites.
A space embraces all above-mentioned physical rooms, as well those untouchables in the outer world but most present in the internal – in your memory, heart or soul. A space can be concrete as well as portray emotions and thoughts, yours or others, it can be interpreted from a poetry, an autobiography etc., it can exist in the now, in history, move overtime or have a non-existing timeframe. A space can also be a structure: the school system, the communism, the capitalism, the subway map, a political agenda, an internship, family relations, to mention some. Nevertheless, note that all here-mentioned spaces are containing physical elements as well as meta-physical, emotional or mental elements.
From Space to Story was founded by me,
Hanna Heilborn, around 1998.
It stems from a close collaboration and friendship with my former mentor Outii Nyytäjää (born 1935, dead 2017), finish writer, dramaturg, translator and columnist. Initially From Space to Story was held as a film scriptwriting workshop at Design and Media School’s such as Beckman’s College of Design and Forsberg’s School of Design and Advertisement, Stockholm. Over the years my method and pedagogy has proven to fit narrative processes within a wide range of artistic practices, and I have supported storytellers from various experiences and backgrounds, students as well as senior artists.
From Space to Story are and has been involving writers, directors and producers within different film practices, Illustrators, Graphic Designers, animators, cinematographers, Art Directors, graphic novelists, architects, digital media artists, fashion designers, editors and other visual-, sound- and/or performative artists as well as journalists. It is and has been held regularly at Konstfack, University of Arts, Craft and Design, Stockholm, since early 2000 -, and occasionally at JMK, Stockholm University dept. of Media Studies and Stockholm University of the Arts as well as internationally at universities and schools such as Supinfocom, Arles and Valenciennes, France, and Joshibi University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan.
The coaching method used in From Space to Story is also implemented in my daily work with emerging filmmakers, as co-owner of the production company Story AB, www.story.se. It is as well used as a tool when assigned as pitch-tutor and consultant for programs such as Doc Forward, Nordisk Panorama, and former Twelve for the future for EDN (European Documentary Network) etc. I have also used the method as a dramaturg, assigned by production companies and independent filmmakers in various production-stages, as a catalyst for a project description, in scriptwriting or as a tool in the editing room. From Space to Story also suits for commercial companies, governmental or non-governmental organizations in the work with building identity.
From Space to Story is held in English or upon request in Swedish. It can also be translated through a translator into fit specific language needs, such as sign language. It is held at site, on-line or in a combination of both.
Educational modules
Presented below are various fixed modules for From Space to Story. For requests and prices of any of the module, contact me by filling in the form under contact at this website.
You can also write to me directly at hanna@story.se, put “From Space to Story”in the subject of the email.
module One
A 5 – 7 weeks module for a certain group of students. For this module guest teachers are invited to execute various student projects, or I work closely with existing teachers at the school. Designed in close collaboration with the school administration, to fit the curriculum, schedules and including examinations within the department.
module two
A one-week workshop at universities and high schools for a smaller student group, maximum 15 people, ending with examinations of an assignment given early in the week. This shorter module is normally connected to an already existing pedagogical module or curriculum within the school. This module does not include dialogue-writing. For a larger group or for adding more content to the workshop the timeframe is extended.
module Three
Tutoring individual bachelor and master students towards the finalization of an exam-project. Minimum 6 sessions, 2 hours each, including preparation reading/watching student’s material.
module Four
Dramaturgic sessions for independent filmmakers and production companies during project development, pitching preparation, scriptwriting and/or the editing. Minimum 4 hours, excluding preparation.
module five
Lecturing, film-screenings and short writing sessions for commercial- governmental- or non-governmental organizations. Minimum 4 hours, excluding preparation.
For private groups of independent companies and filmmakers contact me at hanna@story.se, write “From Space to Story” in the subject. I encourage you to gather in a group of minimum 5 people to assign any of the above modules (1-5) or we can elaborate on a tailored workshop for your specific needs.