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2016/17
CONTENT
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CISA Lugano
Images: Means of Knowledge
11 Teachers, Lecturers
and Visiting Professors
The Academy
Departments / Teaching Fields
Professional Education
and Training
(2-Years-Program)
Master Classes
Post-Diploma Professional
Education and Training
(1-Year-Program)
4Headquarters
Facilities and equipment
7
PET Study Plan
8
Post-Diploma Specialization
Post-Diploma Program
12 CISAlab and International
Relationships
Academic Goals and
Professional Outlet
15Admission
Requirements
How to enroll
16 Organizational Chart
Partnership
Agreements
Collaborations
CISA LUGANO
IMAGES: MEANS OF KNOWLEDGE
THE ACADEMY
Welcome to the International Academy of
Audiovisual Sciences!
As the Swiss Education System forsees,
“the colleges of Professional Education and
Training (PET) teach students the skills required
to indipendently assume professional and
management responsibilities in their field.
The PET and the post-diploma programs are
practically oriented and encourage the ability
to think methodically and holistically in
particular. They also offer further qualifications
for the analysis of tasks specific to their
occupational field and for the pratical
application of the acquired knowledge”.
CISA is a PET college running a two-year
course leading to the Federal PET Diploma as
Designer in Visual Design (Film), followed by
a post-diploma year of specialization, which
offers the recognised qualification of TV/
Cinema Filmmaker.
The recent implementation of the Finance
and Economy (DFE) ordinance that regulates
the requirements for accrediting training
courses and PET Post-Diploma Programs
created a new basis for recognition of
non-university tertiary level schools: hence
CISA, as the only school specializing
in the audio-visual sector, fulfils a highly
significant role in the cantonal and federal
training system.
CISA (International Academy of Audiovisual
Sciences), founded by Pio Bordoni in 1992, is
a training Institute in the field of cinema,
television and multimedia culture, oriented
towards the students' development with the
aim of improving their inclinations, talents
and skills. Students are immersed in creative
settings, where teamwork is valued, with an
eminently practical planning guidance.
CISA is a laboratory to promote the
exploration of new kinds of expression, to
realize documentaries and fiction films,
following the system of “learning by doing”. It
approaches a cinema able to reflect true life
in which the investigation of reality is
interwoven with the construction of narrative
mechanisms and where the filmmaker’s
meticulousness is never detached from
the emotions of the viewer. CISA is a meeting
place where ideas are confronted with the
practice of living together and where the
world of representation is faced with the
reality of objects and people.
Domenico Lucchini, Director
CISA Via Generale Guisan, 3
CH – 6962 Lugano Viganello
e info @ cisaonline.ch t + 41 (0)91 971 51 61 w cisaonline.ch
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Professional Education and Training
(2-years-program)
Designers in Visual Design (Film) prepare, plan
and develop narrative or communication
productions, besides designing and realizing
multimedia products.
Upon completion of the PET College, they
are able to handle all phases of production and
develop an entire and complex project, either
solo or in a team. They can also concentrate on
a specific stage in such a process.
They collaborate with professionals in
marketing, video programming, photography,
and with television and film productions.
Post-Diploma Professional Education and
Training (1-year-program)
The Filmmaker is a professional freelancer
who works in the Film/TV field. New
technologies in recent years enable a whole
range of diverse professional capacities to be
combined in one person. Filmmakers become
therefore experts in screenwriting, film
direction, cinematography and camera,
production, sound design, editing and/or
post-production: they also have to specialize
in at least one of these branches. Finally they
become able to utilize the latest technologies,
from HD to editing software, to produce
documentaries, music videos, short fictions
and multimedia contents.
HEADQUARTERS
CISA is based in Lugano, centrally located
near the university campus and other
high-level professional training schools.
In the near future CISA is moving to other more
functional and spacious sites, reflecting the
growth of our training, which requires constant
technical upgrades, since we operate in one of
the leading sectors of the cultural and creative
industries.
The first two years of the course will remain
headquartered in the Lugano area, in a new
structure that also benefits from a movie
theatre, the Arthouse Lux: its activities will be
as well designed and scheduled by the CISA
team itself.
The post-diploma year will be transferred to
Locarno, the Film Festival’s home town, and
will benefit from the central stage of the
Palacinema, also currently being restructured
and refurbished for this purpose.
Positioned on the northern and southern
axis, between the metropolitan cities of Milan
and Zurich, CISA is ideally located to facilitate
exchanges and encounters between multiple
cultural and audio-visual worlds.
Facilities and equipment
→ → Studios outfitted with sets, carpentry,
lighting systems, tracks,crane, camera dolly
→ → Full HD to 4K cinema cameras
→ → Digital audio recording studio
→ → Edit Suites and Multimedia workrooms
with software for post-production,
video compositing, color correction
→ → DaVinci Resolve
→ → Live Video Direction
→ → Computer Rooms
→ → Equipped CisaLAB
For large productions, CISA uses two Polivideo
studios (250 / 500 m 2) with built-in
customizable scenography, carpentry, lighting
system and Sony F57 cameras.
From 2016, CISA manages the Arthouse Lux
Cinema. The theatre counts 270 seats and is
equipped with standard 35mm projectors and
digital devices for HD/DCP projections.
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PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1st year
Image and Sound
2nd year
Audiovisual
professions
and forms
Theory
Practice
Study Plan
→ → The Elements of Perception
→ → View and Thought
→ → Light: Looking and Seeing
→ → Sound: Hearing and Listening
→ → Image: Creating a Meaning
→ → The Divided Body of the Actor
→ → Editing: Constructing Space
and Time
→ → Script: Textual Strategies
→ → Analysis of Film Writing
→ → History and Critique of Cinema
→ → Production
→ → The Instruments of Cinema
→ → New Media
→ → Practice in Cinematography
→ → Sound Recording
→ → Sound Design
→ → Practice in Editing
→ → Essays in Scriptwriting
→ → Movie Production
→ → Active Participation in
the Locarno Film Festival
and JazzAscona
→ → Internship
1.1 Audiovisual Techniques 1
200
1.2 Cultural Studies 200
1.3 Film Writing 1 100
1.4 Cinematography: Theory and Practice 100
1.5 Cinema and TV Departments 100
1.6 Movie Organization and Production 100
→ → History and Critique of Cinema
→ → Documentary Film
→ → Investigative Reports for
TV Press
→ → Live Sports, Music and
Public Events
→ → Other Television Genres
→ → New Film Forms
→ → Distribution and Market
→ → New Media
→ → Thesis
→ → Projection and Visualization
→ → Realizing a Documentary
→ → Live Television
→ → News and Entertainment
→ → Video Art
→ → Individual Short Films
→ → Realizing Fiction
→ → Synchronization
→ → Internship
→ → Final Film
2.1
Audiovisual Techniques 2
2.2
Film Theory and Analysis 150
2.3
Film Writing 2 280
1.7 Editing: Theory and Techniques 150
1.8 Shooting Practice 200
1.9 Practice as Filmmakers on Set 450
1.10 Internship Number of Hours 1st Years 2.4 Documentary Film: Theory and Practice
2.5Multimedia
2.6
Cinema, Video and TV Genres
2.7
Production Strategies
2.8
The Art of Editing: Theory and Practice
2.9 Shooting Practice (Long Take) and Directing Actors
200
1800
300
80
80
120
50
50
250
2.10 Internship
160
2.11 Thesis and Final Degree-Film
480
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hours
Number of Hours 2nd Years
1800
POST-DIPLOMA SPECIALIZATION
Production
This is a key function, requiring
practical knowledge of all the
various filmmaking crafts and
close collaboration with the
director and others in the team
and/or on set. The producer
deals with devising contracts,
guarantees a production’s
financial liability; manages the
planning of pre-production
work, coordinates the various
professionals who provide
costumes, sets, locations; is
essentially responsible for all
planning, to ensure optimal
operation of the production and
post-production phases of an
audio-visual work.
POST-DIPLOMA PROGRAM
Screenplay
The screenwriter develops the
idea, the story, the outline,
treatment and the script to
provide a basis for the audiovisual presentation of the story.
This is the person who writes the
film before it has been shot!
Sound Design
This figure has a double function:
during production, the sound
designer is responsible for sound
recording (dialogue, sound effects
and music), and then during the
final post-production period will
work on the soundtrack and digital
editing of the recorded audio
material.
Editing / Post-Production
Film Direction
The editor is responsible for
The director is responsible, in
“putting together” the scenes that
artistic and technical terms, for the
have been shot and framed in
final outcome of a professionally
such a way as to construct a story
made film, television programme
through the alliance of sound with
or other audio-visual productions.
He directs the cast’s performance, image. Within the post-production
period they will rework the images
chooses camera angles and
to ensure any visual corrections
framing in the interests of narrative
necessary and integrate any
clarity and resolution, and follows
digital special effects.
through on preparation for the
various phases of production.
Camera / Cinematography (DoP)
The cameraman/woman is the
person who physically handles
the TV or film camera on a TV
or film production, filming or
recording the required scenes.
From a professional perspective,
the job requires a combination
of technical skills, knowledge
and a creative sensibility; and
must visually interpret and fulfil
the needs of the Director and the
DoP (Director of Photography).
The latter is responsible for an
audio-visual production’s
lighting and colour choices. In
addition to technical knowledge
and skills, the DoP must also
have artistic talent, making
cinematography a very creative
and interpretative process.
Transdisciplinary Skills
A.1 Pre-Production
150
A.2 F ilmmakers’ Savoir-faire 150
A.3 Sound and Video Editing 150
A.4 Post-Diploma Thesis 180
A.5 Post-Degree Film 450
Specialized Courses
B.1 Screenwriting 120
B.2 Movie Direction 120
B.3 Cinematography
120
B.4 Production
and Organization 120
B.5 Sound Design 120
B.6 Post-Production
Number of Hours 120
1800
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TEACHERS, LECTURERS
AND VISITING PROFESSORS
DEPARTMENTS / TEACHING FIELDS
MASTER CLASSES
The teaching faculty comprises teachers and
professionals working at a national and
international level, and a number of
personalities from the film and television world,
who hold masterclasses and workshops as
visiting professors. Thanks to their skills and
abilities and the support offered to a training
curriculum of a high technical and cultural
standard, CISA remains firmly anchored
in the professional working world; their
collaboration, in effect, enables the school
to maintain a pedagogical pathway to keep up
with the constant changes and developments
in the sector.
The limited number of students the school
accepts enables teachers to have a close
relationship with each individual student, and
allows for tailoring teaching plans to suit
individual needs and talents. The relationship
between teachers and students is fed by an
ethos of learning by doing which the Academy
coordinates alongside the more traditional
lecture and demonstration teaching approach.
In keeping with the Professional Education and
Training (PET) ethos and structures, there is
great emphasis on practical training, which is
also offered via external apprenticeships that
give students direct contact with real projects
in the working world.
Theories and Languages
Matteo Bonazzi, Edoardo Colombo, Luisella Farinotti,
Mimmo Gianneri, Cecilia Liveriero Lavelli, Domenico
Lucchini, Andrea Pastor, Alessandro Stellino
Over the years, CISA organised numerous
opportunities to keep up-to-date, with
the contribution of personalities such as:
Screenplay
Stefania Consonni, Franco Fraternale, Lara Fremder,
Heidrun Schleef
Michael Beltrami, Giuseppe Bertolucci,
Diego Cassani, Leonardo Cruciano, Peter Del Monte,
Riccardo Fanciola, Francisco Gòzon,
Adriano Kestenholz, Federica Lang, Marco Müller,
Maurizio Nichetti, Enrico Nosei, Gianfilippo Pedote,
Gianfranco Rosi, Tatti Sanguineti, Silvio Soldini,
Paolo Taggi, Luciano Tovoli.
Documentary Film: Theory and Practice
Marco Bertozzi, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Piergiorgio
Gay, Stefano Knuchel, Vito Robbiani, Flavio Stroppini
Elements of Storyboard, Direction of Actors,
Fiction and Multimedia
Andrea Canetta, Nello Correale, Aline D'Auria,
Giorgio Ghisolfi, Corinna Glaus, Sergej Grguric,
Valerio Jalongo, Susanna Lodz, Cristina Proserpio,
Mohammed Soudani
Set: Organization, Production and Roles
Erik Bernasconi, Nicola Bernasconi, Riccardo
Bernasconi, Sara Bühring, Ezio Conforti, Joel Fioroni,
Giuliana Ghielmini, Elvis van der Meijden,
Bettina Pontiggia, Enzo Porcelli, Assunta Ranieri,
Tiziana Soudani, Francesca Vegezzi
Photography
Renato Berta, Mauro Boscarato, Riccardo Brunner,
Giacomo Devecchi, Reza Khatir, Alberto Meroni,
Momi Modenato
Live Television, Investigative Reports for TV Press
Maurizio Canetta, Fiorenzo Mordasini
Sound Design, Soundtracking and Mixing,
Voice over, Music for Images
Rico Andriolo, Flavio Cristilli, Paul Glass, Sandro
Hess, Alberto Morelli, Elda Olivieri, Alberto Pinto,
Riccardo Studer, Pietro Viviani
Post-Production and Visual Effects
Lorenzo Ameri, Carlotta Cristiani, Mauro Gallo,
Davide Grampa, Kathrin Plüss, Peter Pražák,
Mariano Snider
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Since its origins the Academy has been
investing great efforts into the selection of
highly experienced, renowned Visiting
Professors. Below, an example of personalities
who contributed to the Academy’s study offer
between 2012 and 2016:
Marco Bellocchio, Luca Bigazzi, Carlo Chatrian,
Daniele Finzi Pasca, Michelangelo Frammartino,
Matteo Garrone, Philip Gröning, Lech Kowalski,
Alina Marazzi, Pietro Marcello, Mario Martone,
Roberto Minervini, Darezhan Omirbaev,
Francis Reusser, Georges Schwizgebel, Claire Simon,
Edoardo Winspeare, Romed Wyder.
ACADEMIC GOALS AND
PROFESSIONAL OUTLET
CISA LAB AND INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONSHIPS
CISA’s organizational structure has been
enhanced with professional expertise, able to
run didactic activities relating to more
experimental and applied areas, both
technically and as forms of communication.
Students and colleagues have at their
disposal a training and research laboratory
(CisaLAB), thus allowing the school to stand
out as a place where, beyond the technologies
involved, the newest approaches to
communication are refined and developed,
benefiting from more flexible organizational
response to the requirements of the
outside world.
Besides current internships, also plans for
further education and training are in progress
as a way to develop in greater depth a certain
amount of activities, in collaboration with a
network of structures with which CISA has
been working, such as Focal, RSI Academy,
ATST odec Ticino, Cesma, and the Platform
"Filiera Cinema del Canton Ticino".
CISA belongs to the Directors Conference
of the Swiss Design Schools and to the
Directors Conference of the PET.
CISA is nevertheless member of the Cilect,
a world-wide network that includes the main
institutions providing TV, multimedia and
audiovisual educational training.
CISA is connected to european programs
such as EAVE and TorinoFilmLab, with the
objective to achieve an internationally
recognised benchmark in training standards,
while continuing to pay close attention to the
local activities, particularly in terms of cinema
of the real.
Agreements were signed with distinguished
institutions, such as the Experimental
Cinematography Centre (Rome/Milan) and the
Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV) in
San Antonio de Los Baños (Cuba). With these
schools CISA started different study program
exchanges, offering mutual internships and
promoting the vision of students' shortfilms at
local film festivals.
Two Years Full-Time Study Program
The course intends to develop creative,
organisational and technical competences
needed to realize an audiovisual project.
Post-Diploma
Aim of the specialization year is to further
develop cultural and practical expertise for the
cinematographer or specialized filmmaker
professions.
Statistically, more than 80% of CISA graduates
find an employment in the field within a short
period of time after graduation.
After the Post-Diploma course, students can
also apply for a master's program at university
(in Switzerland or abroad), according to the
admission requirements.
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ADMISSION
Professional Education and Training (PET)
– Designer in Design visivo (Film) / Two
Years Full-Time Study Program
Incoming students have to send an application
form and can gain admission through a
placement test: examination consists of essay
questions and aptitude tests. When required,
the training institute may prescribe
the attendance to a preparatory course
or to an internship. The Designer in Design
visivo (Film) PET presupposes a degree
of secondary-level II. Students with
an extraordinary artistic talent could be
admitted, under exceptional circumstances,
without this title.
Post-Diploma – Filmmaker / One Year of
Specialization
The admission to the Post-Diploma
Specialization Year is open (after admission
test) to graduated PET students, to SUP or
University students with specific training in
audiovisual areas, as well as to graduated
students by other film and television colleges.
Candidates over 25 years, lacking the required
qualifications but with significant training and
provable experience, will be individually
evaluated.
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REQUIREMENTS
HOW TO ENROLL
Minimum age: 18
→ → Federal Vocational Education and Training
(VET)
→ → Diploma in Multimedia or Visual Areas
→ → Higher education qualification or equivalent
in similar areas
→ → High school diploma from a foreign school
or equivalent
→ → B1 English certificate
Candidates submit the following
documentation to the Direction of CISA:
→ → Application form (download from
cisaonline.ch)
→ → Applicant’s motivation letter
→ → Official school transcript
→ → Two passport-size photographs
→ → For foreign students: copy of an
ID document
Fees
1st year CHF 8’000.-
2nd year CHF 9’000.-
Post-Diploma CHF 10’000.-
ORGANIZATIONAL
CHART
CISA Board of
Foundation
President
Giovanna Masoni
Brenni
Honorary Members
Vittorio Bagnasco,
Teco Celio,
Frédéric Maire
Members
Michael Beltrami,
Augusto Chollet,
Nello Correale,
Prisca Dindo,
Fabio Fumagalli,
Elda Guidinetti,
Villi Hermann,
Domenico Lucchini,
Alina Marazzi,
Gianfilippo Pedote,
Giancarlo Zappoli
Staff
Director
Domenico Lucchini
Educational
Manager
Cecilia Liveriero
Lavelli
Coordinator
Giuliana Zogg
Ghielmini
Assistant
Joel Fioroni
Technical Area
Manager
Momi Modenato
CisaLAB
Davide Grampa
Secretariat
and Administration
Manager
Claudia Bernasconi
Communication
and Press Office
(freelance)
Mattia Ferretti
Scientific
Committee
Renato Berta,
Luisella Farinotti,
Domenico Lucchini,
Daniele Maggioni,
Kathrin Plüss,
Enzo Porcelli,
Gaetano Stucchi,
Paolo Taggi
PARTNERSHIP
AGREEMENTS
COLLABORATIONS
Members
CSC
Centro Sperimentale
di Cinematografia,
Roma e Milano
(Experimental
Cinematography
Centre, Rome and
Milan)
Festival del film
Locarno
(Film Festival
Locarno)
CILECT
Centre International
de Liaison des Ecoles
de Cinéma et de
Télévision
(The International
Association of Film
and Television
Schools)
Swiss Design Schools
The Directors
Conference of the
Swiss Design Schools
Conferenza SSS
Ticino
The Directors
Conference of
the Professional
Education and
Training (PET)
ECTV
Escuela de Cine y
Televisión, Havana
(Cuba)
CESMA
European Center for
Studies in Music and
Acoustics
RSI
Radiotelevisione della
Svizzera italiana
Teleticino
Jazz Festival Ascona
AFAT
Associazione Film
Audiovisivi Ticinese
Ticino Film
Commission
TFL
TorinoFilmLab
ATST odec Ticino
Swiss Association of
PET Alumni
Filiera Cinema
del Canton Ticino
Platform
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Prospectus
2016/17