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Partners On A Dime. Music Writing Life and More. Newer posts →. The Three Rivers Film Festival what a month. November 20, 2010. If anybody is following “American Dumpling The Movie”. You know we entered it into 3Rivers. No that is not a typo,. Nothing like a visual! ANY way – Even before we submitted, I nagged Stephanie Argy and Alec Boehm. Of “The Red Machine”. Yes, we do things like that when excited. Channel that energy. Tony Buba of “Braddock films. Carol O’ Sullivan. However, during the weekend, I w...
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Meganne Fabrega: May 2014
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Writer and Book Critic. Monday, May 5, 2014. Store names don't get much better than this. Natural Bridge, VA). I've had quite a few reviews run over at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, if you have a chance please take a peek. They include Gail Caldwell's new memoir. By Ben Tarnoff, and Life is a Wheel. I finished my creative writing fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society. It's a game changer in the best sense of the word. S summer books extravaganza, which should publish at the end of May. I drove t...
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Filmmaking-for-Actors Workshop
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The crew people with whom you're most likely to interact on set. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY (also called CINEMATOGRAPHER, DP, CAMERAMAN). The director of photography tells the story emotionally through visual means. Lighting is a big part of this, and so are camera placement, camera moves, lens choice (usually in collaboration with the director). CAMERA OPERATOR (often known simply as "Operator"). FIRST CAMERA ASSISTANT (also "First AC" or "Focus Puller"). Head of the grip department. The First AD's lead as...
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Filmmaking-for-Actors Workshop
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Session Five: Visual Effects, Special Effects and Virtual Production. Squibs and blood packs. Rubber hose in the nose. Overlap with makeup, etc. Glass paintings and hanging miniatures. Explanation of Jurassic Park dinosaurs. Gandhi at the Bat. Previsualization (and using storyboards and previs to help imagine the scenario). Also pitchvis, technical previs, postvis. Still a lot of use of "in-camera" effects, often combined with computer-generated elements afterward. The visual effects of.
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Filmmaking-for-Actors Workshop
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Session Four: Sound Recording, Design, Mixing. On your own: Listen to some movie scenes with the audio turned off, then again with the audio turned on. Building the world with sound. Actors on set use their imagination to to fill in what the story world sounds like (e.g., a crowded street, a loud concert, a busy office, etc.). After the shoot, the sound department has the mission to build the sound of that story world for everyone else, using the actors’ dialogue as one of the chief building blocks.
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Filmmaking-for-Actors Workshop
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Session Six: Bringing It All Together. Classical Concepts of Lighing. Hard (including the sun) vs. soft. Frontal vs. side. The process of lighting. Chris Menges via Seamus McGarvey. Show a still from. Types of lighting instruments. Demo of finding light (and lens). Doing your own lighting (for video auditions, etc.). China ball/IKEA ravioli light. With director Rajnesh Domalpalli. Back to where we started: "Help create for others what you would create for yourself.". What do we do with it?
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Filmmaking-for-Actors Workshop
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This is the start of an ongoing glossary of terms relating to filmmaking - both on-set and off. A term used to tell the camera department to roll the camera without the actors’ knowledge (e.g., during a rehearsal). The set-up before the final set-up of the day. An actor will sometimes be required to take a curved path from one position to another, for various reasons, rather than a straight line. He or she will be asked to banana in order to get to the mark. Short for Century stand, a three-legged stand ...
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Filmmaking-for-Actors Workshop
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A six-session workshop on what happens on set and beyond, and how we can all tell better stories together. A talented group of collaborators, educating themselves and one another. A safe place to ask questions, explore and learn. Overview: Pre-production, Production and Post. How does film differ from stage, and how are they similar? Who's who in the crew, and what do they do? Stage a mock scene, with all the workshop participants taking on the roles of crew members. What are your questions? This session...
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Filmmaking-for-Actors Workshop
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Filmmaking for Actors - Im interested! We will be presenting this workshop for the first time in September, 2015, and it will be by invitation only. Though the content is designed primarily for actors, one of our goals is to facilitate communication between all the filmmaking crafts, and we are open to people from all departments. If youd like to be considered, please submit the following preliminary information:. Your primary craft (e.g. actor, director, etc.)? Your website or online reel.
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Filmmaking-for-Actors Workshop
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1) Introduction to the workshop, and to each other. And the studio system. Too much burden on actors to figure all this out on their own (and pay for their own education). Huge need for all of us to communicate better, and to understand one another's crafts and needs. We love every aspect of filmmaking, and want to share our awe at what everyone contributes to the process. Help create for others what you would create for yourself.". Introductions all around, including:. Your filmmaking experience so far.
