WORKSHOPS IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR NEW FILMMAKERS

Is Rosemary’s Baby any relation to David Lynch’s Grandmother?

A script is a seedbed or a minefield or a map. Its outcome is a production committed to stages, either live or screened. This workshop takes you through the intuitive and methodical processes that connect words to vision.

Film design is both practical and conceptual. Using reading skills, analysis and discussion this workshop will apply useful methods and basic principles that can be used for any scale of project. The difference between a no-budget digital short and a feature film is a question of proportion.

Over the course of three sessions, with additional time for one-to-one consultation, participants will learn to:

• break down a script into dynamic sets in practical locations and working studios
• examine how an aesthetic design choice affects legal issues, including property and safety
• communicate visual concepts verbally and by using picture
• be creative within budget restraints

Participants may want to use this workshop as a pre-production planning session for a project already in development.

CINEMATIC STAGECRAFT
Friday, 09 April 2010, 7-9pm
Sunday, 11 + 18 April 2010, 10am-4pm
Cineworks [1131 Howe, back lane entrance]
Members: $175, Non-members: $225

REGISTRATION: Please call 604.685.3841 or send an electronic message to Leanne at info(at)cineworks.ca.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 06 April 2010

INSTRUCTOR: Lisa Celotto a filmmaker and teacher who has coached the design and staging of over 200 short dramatic films as a teacher at VFS, Canadian College, and Langara. In 2003 she won the NSI drama prize for her short Any Niagara. Lisa has producing, writing, sound mixing, art direction and production design screen credits all with first-time filmmakers. Working with new filmmakers always offers a unique perspective to the art of filmmaking because each step of the process is invented and discovered within the context of creative possibility.