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4
DAY CLASSES |
| Digital
Video In The Classroom –
Betsy Newman |
Enrollment:
15 |
| May
30-June 2, 9am-5pm |
Media Arts
educators get hands-on experience shooting and editing digital
video for use in the classroom. Get re-certification credits!
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| Animation
– Helen Hill |
Enrollment: |
Session One
(Kids 8-12) May 30-June 2, 9am-12pm
Session Two (Adults) May 30-June 2, 2pm-5pm |
Session One: 10
Session Two: 10 |
In
this intensive four day animation workshop, students get
to make their own short films! We will watch different
types of animation from all over the world. Then, students
will film their own drawings, cut-out paper puppets, and
even themselves. Students should bring a small, treasured
object with them to the first class.
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2
DAY CLASSES
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| Yonges
Island–Non-Traditional
Documentary Workshop –
Portia Cobb |
Enrollment:
15 |
| May
30-31, 9pm-5pm |
Day
One: This workshop looks at less conventional approaches
to creating documentaries. You will
consider the reconstruction of memory as material and
progress to the expository model (fact building and back-story)
to stimulate questions for exploration. Using
written and researched materials, the you will work
collaboratively to develop and produce a short documentary
story.
Day Two: How does one manage to achieve production in the
field when the field is outside the familiar? An
exploration of the practical methods and creative
processes used by documentary makers who dare. Includes a
field trip into the South Carolina Marshland.
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| Non-Linear Editing
– Rich Thomas |
Enrollment:
11 |
| June 1-2,
9pm-5pm |
| Here's your chance
to rewrite the story! Take the film or video you've shot and
slice, dice and polish it into a gleaming jewel. Great editing
can salvage a poorly shot film just as poor editing can ruin
one. Learn how and why to choose certain shots, effects and
transitions. Discover creative and cost and time efficient
methods of working on non-linear editing systems. |
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1
DAY CLASSES
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| Location
Audio – Glen Trew |
Enrollment: 15 |
| May
30, 9pm-5pm |
This
comprehensive workshop begins with a history and overview
of sync dialog recording, and will give a real world
perspective on portable recording equipment including
Nagra, DAT, and the new disk based portables such as the
Deva and Nagra 5 recorders. This and other equipment will
be present for demonstration. Attendees will gain
understanding of microphone types and techniques, portable
mixing equipment, when a boom mic is preferred over a
wireless lav, and what economic and artistic impact these
and other sound choices have on a production.
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| Directing
– Denine
Rowan |
Enrollment: 15 |
| May
30, 9pm-5pm |
Learn
how to translate your script and story ideas into
compelling visuals for the screen. Discover the
"beats" within the script. Choose effective
camera angles and evaluate how they will cut together.
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| Screenwriting
– Camilla Carr |
Enrollment: 30 |
| May
31, 9am-5pm |
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Whether
writing an original or an adaptation of a book, play or
true life story, the screenplay is first and foremost a
blueprint. It must read as compelling as a novel, be as
sparse as a poem, and as specific as an electrical manual.
The script is the architectural manual for the producers,
director, cinematographer, production and costume
designers, location managers, casting agents, the entire
cast and crew and ANYONE working on the movie. This course
will address the specifics of achieving these goals, with
examples from both feature and television screenplays.
Then, you'll write, we'll read and discuss it. Bring your
work!
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| The
Art of Make-Up & Special Effects – Jeff
Goodwin |
Enrollment: 30 |
| May
31, 9am-5pm |
From beauty makeup
to special effects make-up for blood and aging a character. Learn
how to make yourself the most beautiful–or most ugly–actor
on screen.
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| Personal
Narrative: Through the Looking Glass – Lisa
Lewenz |
Enrollment: 12 |
| June
1, 9pm-5pm |
This
workshop explores a variety of significant issues one may
engage while making a personal narrative film, perhaps
initially made as a private document, though built with
“growing room” should it eventually be disseminated to
venues such as film festivals and public television.
Participants are encouraged to identify a variety of
resources to incorporate into a cohesive narrative
structure. By exploring the quirks of personal narrative
“voices” as a tool to plumb an array of subjects, you
will identify different storytelling styles that you may
choose to utilize. Issues such as rights, releases and
budgeting will be addressed, with suggestions of how one
can survive (and thrive) during the production of
long-term independent film projects.
You¹re invited to bring a digital video camera (plus USB
cable) with footage you¹ve shot. Don’t forget any
letters, diaries, snapshots, recipe cards, embarrassing
stories, answering machine messages, copies of home movies
(shot on digital video aimed at a movie screen or wall),
and other fodder for a narrative film that you’d like to
make. We¹ll attempt to find a starting point and
destination for your ideas.
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| Location
Scouting – Mary Morgan-Kerlagon |
Enrollment: 12 |
| June
1, 9am-5pm |
| How to find them, photograph
them, get permits and manage them. Participants will scout and
photograph a location in Charleston, SC, create a portfolio
suitable for submission to a production company or advertising
agency, learn how to be a liaison between crews and local
residents, and how to get your first assignment as a location
scout.
Participants
must bring a 35mm SLR camera (no disposable cameras)
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1/2
DAY CLASSES
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| Producing
for Television – Kathy
Conkwright, Cassandra Finch |
Enrollment: 30 |
| May
31,
1pm-5pm |
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| What
you don't know you about...Web Design –
Cathy
Lee |
Enrollment: 30 |
| June
1, 9am-12pm |
One of the most
dynamic and cost effective ways to promote yourself, your film,
your business–or just to have fun–is to have an internet web
site. Find out how. Topics covered include: differences
between web and print pages, differences between browsers, types
of webs, style considerations, the importance of planning, and
how to publish your web site and register it with search
engines.
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| The
Impact of Digital Filmmaking –
Ben
Burtt, Michael & Sonia Klein |
Enrollment: 30 |
| June
1, 9am-12pm |
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The
Seriousness of Comedy, or What’s So Funny –
Jeff Sumerel, Sean
Finnigan |
Enrollment: 30 |
| June 1,
9am-12pm |
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Discussion
and analysis of the social impact of humor in movies.
An unpretentious, yet fun and exhilarating,
exploration of what was – is – and could
be funny. And
why, or why not.
Some works for discussion:
Waiting for Guffman, There's Something
About Mary, Little Rascals, Your Show of
Shows, Election, Tex Avery Cartoons, Rushmore,
Happiness, Toy Story, and others.
Participants
are encouraged to bring samples of their own work or
others.
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| Music
& Film – Carol
Caldwell, Michael
Catalano, Kathy
Conkwright, Sean
Finnigan, Timothy Weber |
Enrollment: 30 |
| June
1, 1pm-5pm |
Join
filmmakers and performers from Tennessee for a look at a
different side of filmmaking: music.
Michael Catalano will show portions or the whole of his
early half hour short entitled Travellin' Trains
and discuss the integral nature of indigenous music to
this award-winning film.
Kathy Cronkwright is currently assembling a documentary on
the first black man to step foot on the stage of the Grand
Ole Opry, DeFord Bailey. She is an expert on the
mechanics of getting the rights to use existing libraries
of music for film.
Sean Finnigan will speak about how the world of commercial
music operates. Mr. Finnigan worked for the Mattel
Corporation developing music for their marketing
campaigns.
Carol Caldwell will speak to the future of musicals in
film. What appears to be a dying art is trying to
resurrect itself. Where can it go from here?
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| Nature
Documentaries
– Sarah Sanford |
Enrollment: 30 |
| June
2, 9am-12pm |
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OTHER
EVENTS
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| Women In
Production – Salon |
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| May
30, 5:30pm-7pm |
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