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Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: directing - Recent Topics http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: directing - Recent Topics en Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:21:42 +0000 Stolaroff on "No Budget Film School - Aug. 29 - Los Angeles" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/no-budget-film-school-aug-29-los-angeles#post-61464 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:35:43 +0000 Stolaroff 61464@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ NO BUDGET FILM SCHOOL PRESENTS: "CINEMA LANGUAGE" Two Courses in One Day: Morning Session - Course 103: "Mastering Film Grammar" Afternoon Session - Course 204: "From Script To Screen" Sunday, August 29, 2010 • 9:00am - 6:00pm Raleigh Studios - Chaplin Theater • Los Angeles, CA For more information and to register, please visit: <a title="Cinema Language Event Page" href="http://nobudgetfilmschool.eventbrite.com/">nobudgetfilmschool.eventbrite.com</a> ABOUT THE CLASS: No Budget Film School presents an all-new class, "Cinema Language," which explores the written and unwritten language of cinema. The morning session, Course 103: "Mastering Film Grammar," is an intensive and highly entertaining exploration of screen art form. Whether you're spending $100 million or $100, you're going to be pointing your camera at something. Instructor Tom Provost will explore the colors, shots, shapes, symbols, lines, shadows, and sounds that prompt specific emotions and make up the extremely visual and aural art that is the motion picture. Over 100 clips and screen shots from various movies will be used to illustrate and illuminate. The afternoon session, Course 204: "From Script to Screen," is a unique and revealing look at how a movie goes from the words on a page to the final motion picture. Students will read the first act of the script of Provost's new feature The Presence prior to attending and then see the finished film in class. A frank and detailed discussion of the transition will follow. From Script To Screen is a rare opportunity to dig deep into the filmmaking process. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Tom Provost is an accomplished author, screenwriter, editor, director, producer, and instructor. His new feature The Presence, (<a title="The Presence" href="http://www.thepresencemovie.com">http://www.thepresencemovie.com</a>), was recently completed and is set for release in early 2011. The inventive ghost story/modern-day gothic romance stars Academy Award-winning actress Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite), Shane West (ER), Golden Globe Nominee Justin Kirk (Weeds), and Tony Curan (Pearl Harbor, Gladiator). TESTIMONIALS FOR TOM PROVOST: "You gave me a whole new appreciation for visual storytelling. Your presentations will forever have an impact on my own writing and storytelling." - Joe Coddington "You have unique insight on form and character that I will incorporate into my own directing. And the class was extremely entertaining." - Julie Cohen "Your class on form and construction of image is of the utmost importance and, as a director, to say it affected my own work in a profound way would be an understatement." - Bill Garrett Can't make the class? For more information on future classes and to sign up for the No Budget Newsletter, please visit: <a title="No Budget Film School" href="http://www.NoBudgetFilmSchool.com/">http://www.NoBudgetFilmSchool.com</a> Join the <a title="Cinema Language Facebook Page" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cinema-Language/142863245735714?ref=ts">Cinema Language Facebook Fan Page</a> and get a tiny preview of what the class is all about. laubenstein on "What is my role?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/what-is-my-role#post-61201 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:42:24 +0000 laubenstein 61201@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I have my first paying project underway and the client and I both admit this will be a journey for us both to learn from. The project: DVD to supplement 8 lessons that will accompany the printed workbook lessons. Each of the 8 lessons need to be a 10 minute lecture from my client. Sounds easy and straight forward, but when I go to capture we end up starting/stopping/re-capturing...In post I am doing WAY to much work piecing everything together. The client has her colleagues critique her work from what I post on Vimeo and they give her great constructive feedback - she is talking too slow, she needs to talk more from a script, smile more, etc. My question - what is my role in helping her get there? Am I just there to capture and edit? Should I be coaching her more? Those of you that have tons of experience with making DVDs that are not of your own writing/ideas, what does your role look like while capturing? OR what is your role during pre-production - any examples of the storyboards that you could post? I understand storyboards and with a 10 minute lecture, there isn't much to storyboard...So how do I get my client to understand basics - START with an introductory sentence.... Thanks! Michelle talenthouse on "Call for Entries: Electric Cinema" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/call-for-entries-electric-cinema#post-59693 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:10:05 +0000 talenthouse 59693@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Submit your pitch to create a short film for Electric Cinema <ul> <li>Win £5,000 to create an Electric Short film at a Soho House Property </li> <li>Host: Electric House/Mercedes-Benz</li> <li> Pitch your film proposal themed on “Desire” in no more than 400 words, and win the opportunity to shoot it for real at a Soho House property. This summer the Soho House Group will launch the Electric Shorts film competition, supported by Mercedes-Benz and in association with Empire Magazine. Electric Shorts will give both unknown and established filmmakers the opportunity to have their work championed by a group of film and media experts, plus the chance to win £5,000 to make a film which will be screened at the world famous Electric Cinema. (BEFORE YOU ENTER, PLEASE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE RULES AND TERMS LOCATED UNDER THE DETAILS SECTION) </li> </ul> TO PARTICIPATE: -Write a 400 word pitch themed on "Desire" -Go to <a href="http://tlnt.at/ajMMWC">http://tlnt.at/ajMMWC</a> -Log in to your Talenthouse profile and click the 'Participate' button -Submit your pitch in PDF format talenthouse on "Call for Entries for Paris Fashion Week Screening!" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/call-for-entries-for-paris-fashion-week-screening#post-57882 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:01:42 +0000 talenthouse 57882@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Make a Fashion Film to be featured in "A Shaded View on Fashion Film" <ul> <li> Have your film screened as part of the ASVOFF opening in Paris</li> <li>Host: Diane Pernet & Tavi Gevinson</li> <li> International fashion icon Diane Pernet presents A Shaded View on Fashion Film 2010, the third edition of Paris’s annual film festival dedicated to Fashion, Style and Beauty with special guest judge superstar fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson. They have created a once in a life time opportunity for all die hard fashionistas and emerging fashion filmmakers to submit their best fashion film feature or short around the theme of Fashion, Style or Beauty and be featured in this prestigious fashion film festival. The selected filmmaker will have his/her film screened as part of the next edition of ASVOFF opening in Paris. </li> </ul> <ul> <li>SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO HERE: <a href="http://bit.ly/asvoff_blg">http://bit.ly/asvoff_blg</a></li> <li>Deadline is July 12, 201</li> </ul> composite1 on "Working with others" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/working-with-others#post-53712 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:15:47 +0000 composite1 53712@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Unless your ambition as a filmmaker is nothing more than shooting small personal videos, eventually you will will end up working with others on a crew. Just from the role of 'Director of Photography' your responsibility will be to get the actual 'look' of the project on to tape. If you are not also the Director of the film, then you will have the added responsibility of getting the director's 'vision' with your creative ability as well. Working with a director on a zero to multi-million dollar project can be a blessing or a curse (sometimes both) depending on the relationship you develop with your director. We've all heard of the tempermental director, but I've run into to some 'bratty' DP's as well. Put either or both into the mix and that whole 'curse' thing comes into play. In Steve Weiss' "FilmFellas" latest discussion this very topic is discussed by professional DP's from the corporate-industrial video to Hollywood film production industry. Though this is intended for intermediate or higher level filmmakers, beginners can learn from these discussions as well. Lots of beginner projects never got shot because of creative differences between budding directors and dp's too! <a href="http://vimeo.com/8458102">FilmFellas - webisode 27</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/zacuto">Zacuto USA, Steve Weiss</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>. alexclara26 on "Industry events at the Edinburgh Film Festival 2009" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/industry-events-at-the-edinburgh-film-festival-2009#post-47850 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:18:09 +0000 alexclara26 47850@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ H Edinburgh Film Festival 09 is round the corner and FilmLive.TV are there to catch it. In association with EIFF, FilmLive.TV will cover the star-studded, talent leaden events that will take Edinburgh by storm between June 17th and 28th, 2009. FilmLive.TV is an innovative WebTV channel for filmmakers and film lovers. Launched at last years festival, FilmLive.TV broadcasts free, TV quality content directly to a web audience, inaccessible on demand across multiple formats and channel. FilmLive.TV has been granted unlimited access to all industry events where will showcase a side of the EIFF that hasn't been seen before. FilmLive will upload the main events, review, frenzy and daily highlights of the 2009 EIFF. 12 days of film, mayhem, and madness, uploaded daily, online, to FilmLive.TV, all the top video sites, the official EIFF website as well as a podcast on iTunes. So Catch the latest interviews, film reviews, new talent, cutting edge technology, only on FilmLive. <a href="https://webmailcluster.1and1.co.uk/xml/deref?link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.filmlive.tv">http://www.filmlive.tv</a>