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Film Directing for the Dummies Workshop

Second UAF Film Festival

Fri. Feb. 12, 1999, 4 pm.

The outline of the Film Directing workshop I conduct from time to time for folks with very little or no film experience. If a lecture -- 60 to 90 min. If with actual shooting -- up to 3-4 hours, using video cameras (depending on the size of the class).

Here I will try to put together a cyber equivalent of mini-filmmaking workshop.

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FunDirecting

Scripting

Director's script
Shots & Cuts

Idea and Concept.

I probably should start with it -- the Idea. Sometime it's not even a thought, not even so-called "vision"... Something. Don't push it, help it grow. Too extremes: trying to throw it into scripted form right away, and the opposite -- talking too much about it.

[use FilmMaking 101 directory for details.]

Story & Storyboarding

Visual Narrative. Story-line. Plot and screen events.

If didn't have much of filmmaking experience, most likely you will be neglecting it. Most of the first-timers grab the camera and shoot... This is how home-video is done.

The wrong way.

Shooting

Visual composition, balance and dynamic composition. Contextuality (Montage).

True art of making films. The details. Texture is the structure in film (Don't know what's the difference? Read Aristotle's "The Poetics").

Film Classes at the Summer Arts Camp -- see the catalogue listing. For classes -- Theatre UAF

There are many useful links in Mining Film Directory; mostly "filmmaking"!

If you feel that you are missing the basics of theory, start with the pages for 200X Aesthetic Appreciation: Art, Music, Theatre THROUGH Film.

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Do not over-concern yourself with the production aspect; this is a learning experience. The technical knowledge should come naturally, when there is an artistic need for skills. Take classes with Kade -- design, light, sound. Take video-production courses with Journalism-Broadcasting. Take as many film classes as you can. Do not watch movies, see films.

Okay, if you watch movies, please READ them. Follow the class Film & Movies (analysis 300)!

Do you want to make movies? Start STUDYING them... SEE IT!

Anatoly