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Producer's Weekend!
NEW YORK, NY
June 14 & 15, 2008
Sign up for BOTH classes for only $399.00!
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER 
FMC101 -DIGITAL FILM SCHOOL: It's a digital world, baby! Get up to speed on the fastest growing sector in film production.
Learn how digital filmmaking is breaking down traditional barriers and giving filmmakers, new and old, the kind of exposure unheard of in the past.
Highly recommended as a first step into the industry. If you only intend to take one filmmaking course in your lifetime, this is it!
WHAT IT IS: An intensive 1-day event
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: The inside scoop on the filmmaking process, from hard facts about the process to tips for a successful creative collaboration.
In the Morning
Preparation and DV Gear! Get up close to digital cameras, lenses, tripods, tape stock, power, wireless microphones and digital sound recording equipment. The equipment you'll need for your own projects. We focus on professional feature production technique, costs and methods, including how to light scenes for digital video and how to make the most effective use of your budget. You'll get plenty of "Pro" tips and tricks of the trade. Explore the cost pros and cons that go into the real-life decisions filmmakers make every day.
After Lunch
Shoot and Edit a Real DV Movie! Join the crew, as you learn about camera placement, DV lighting, running a hot set, and how to record great digital production sound. Once shooting is complete, it's digital editing time. We'll assemble our footage, while discovering the nuts and bolts of editing digital formats, comparing the various types of PC and Mac-based NLE equipment, audio capture, titling and special effects.
Wait, there's more!
Intro to Post Sound - DV to Film and Web Marketing. Great sound is essential. Find out how to build a professional audio soundtrack as the mysteries of re-recording Dolby Stereo, 5.1 surround (SDDS, DTS, Dolby Digital), THX, the X-Curve and the Dominator are revealed. Discover the process and costs of converting digital video footage to film for theatrical and festival screenings. Before we wrap, there is time for a distribution overview, including festival submissions, creating a DV film look, and marketing on the Web.
FMC104 - PRODUCING - Pre to Post-Production: The role of the producer is one of the most creative in the film industry. A producer is a modern-day Renaissance Person guiding ideas, talent and money towards a seemingly impossible goal. From development to distribution, this course examines how films are set up, managed and sold in the world marketplace.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
**The business of the motion picture starts with the Producer. If you are ready, this is must attend interactive event!
**From development, production, to post production and sales, this unique career building course will demystify, define, and prepare you for entry into the Professional world of Producing motion picture entertainment.
**Through practical laboratory exercises, students engage in the task of translating the script into a minimum budget for maximum production value and screen quality.
COURSE COVERS:
- Finding, optioning and buying the script
- Creating a sellable package and business plan
- Financing and pre-selling
- Breaking down the script
- Creating a real Budget
- Constructing the shooting schedule
- Choosing the right cast and key crew
- Locking locations
- Unions and Guilds vs non-union
- Deal making
- Hiring and firing
- Writing the checks
- Daily production reports
- Insurance and Bond companies
- Finding a Post house
- Completion and world wide sales
- Ethics and Professional attitude
**This workshop emphasizing the responsibilities of a real working Producer, featuring: lecture, visuals, and group exercises to guide participants in the understanding of every filmmaking phase, as it relates to business of the Producer. *Course fee includes sample budgets, forms, workbook and handouts.
Producer's Course
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
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Editing Final Cut Pro
Washington, DC
May 24th |
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Digital Film School
New York, NY
June 14th |
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Producer's Course
New York, NY
June 15th |
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Editing Final Cut Pro
Washington, DC
June 28th |
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Director's Crash Course
New York, NY
July 12th |
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Directing: Advanced Performance
New York, NY
July 13th |
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Editing Final Cut Pro
Washington, DC
July 26th |
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Digital Film School
Los Angeles, CA
August 16th |
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Producer's Course
Los Angeles, CA
August 17th |
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Editing Final Cut Pro
Washington, DC
August 30th |
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Director's
Crash Course
Los Angeles, CA
September 13th |
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Directing:
Advanced Performance
Los Angeles, CA
September 14th |
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PRIVATE
CONSULTATION
This service is based around the needs of individual filmmakers.
If you can't wait to take one of the classes or If your needs
are very specific, then private consultation might be just what
you're looking for.
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On
Location:
Logan's Run (1976)
By
Arthur Handy
Back
in 1976, one year before the world would discover Star Wars,
a classic Science Fiction film was released. It was called:
Logan's Run.
The
movie, directed by Michael Anderson, and starring Michael
York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan and Peter Ustinov, takes
place sometime in the 23rd Century...MORE
ON LOCATION
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Making
Movie Money
It's
a Hollywood Tradition!
By Maurice Voltkofsky
Over
the years, every major movie studio has printed, purchased,
or rented "funny" money. To keep it all legal like, they,
the Property department men and women, usually print "made
for movies", "can't pass me", or "for Motion Picture Use Only"
somewhere on the note.
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SCREENWRITING
TIPS
By The Undisputed Master
Polishing
Crap!
When you polish crap, you get a polished piece of crap. You
can polish a turd till the cows come home, but it will never
turn into a diamond. So true is this fact, that when you shoot
a crappy script, an editor can polish the silver emulsion
just so far before your cellulose investment flakes, decay’s
and just fades away. When you start with Crap, you get….
you know…go ahead, say it!
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ON FEATURED ARTICLE
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SHOOT
CAMP USA 2008
In
the trenches on an unbelievable location, with your hands on
all the gear, you'll learn by doing. You will gain knowledge
of exactly what you are required to experience and go through
in order to make your own movie. You will also learn precisely
what you need to know to walk onto a set anywhere in the world
and direct, produce or work as a member of the crew in the most
important positions.
Shoot
Camp USA
is a full eight days of filmmaking where you produce, direct,
and edit and become the crew of a live action short feature
film! With all the bells and whistles, you get a full filmmaking
experience with the greatest emphasis on directing.
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