[Laurent Andrieux]

[French version]

Jean-Paul JARRY is a director of photograpy graduated from Ecole Nationale Louis Lumière (ENSLL, Paris, France) and he teaches cinematography since 1995 and more particularly these last eleven years at Institut International de l'Image et du son (3iS) a french private movie and audiovisual school, near Paris, where he led the cinematography department from 2005 to 2008.


J.P. Jarry, workshop, Film Institute Manila Philippines, august 2010. Photo : Fernando Manalo

In parallel he made an investigation about different cinematography teaching methods in thirteen state and private european schools, shared out in six countries, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland and France, as INSAS, IAD, London film School, HFF Munich, 3iS, ESRA, for example. His research work has been published on cineuropa.org and imago.org.

He met teachers, departments responsibles, managers, students. He also attended lectures, shootings, pedagogical meetings, screenings and jurys. From the rich and fructuous informations he got, he has written this comparative study.

Through this description of cursus principles, teaching methods, equipment choices, this thoughts are more focused for teachers who are reading us. But it also shows there is not a single way to teach cinematography at this specialized high studies level, although rigour and serious arise as the main values.


J.P. Jarry, workshop, Film Institute Manila Philippines, august 2010. Photo : Fernando Manalo

Jean-Paul forsees a second part to this investigation , which will be a same deep study on productions (films) organisation included in the programs and on the lenghts of the cursus beyond the first three years, generalized in all these schools.

In parallel of his activities in France and Europe, Jean-Paul widens his researches on the others continents to enrich his study. In summer 2010, he led a cinematography workshop at Film Institute at University of Philippines in Manila.


J.P. Jarry, workshop, Film Institute Manila Philippines, august 2010. Photo : Fernando Manalo

Here are the English and German versions of his paper :

[Laurent Andrieux]

Benjamin Bergery noticed this site, on which you can find all the film schools in the world.