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2006 DEMOCRACY in FILM

EU Workshops w/ Cinemahead

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DEMOCRACY in FILM WORKSHOP

International Youth Cinema workshop sponsore by the European Union in collaboration with Film i Värmland.

Värmland, Sweden - 24-25 February 2006 ; June16-26 2006.

For mentors from Romania, Hungary and Scandinavia, and youth filmmakers in dramatic, experimental and documentary forms.

Intro
- What is the link between Film and Democracy?
- Models: Participation, Idea Exchange, Production.
- Youth Cinema: organization, debate, voice, vision.

Brainstorming
- a Democratic approach to Storytelling?
- What Film are we making? does it have to be about democracy?
- The Cinemahead approach: how do film ideas develop and grow?
- Group Discussion: Discoveries, Conflicts, Crises. Solutions.

Weaving Story
- Multiple story strands vs. Single Plot.
- Writing in Workshop format: structure, details, improvisations.
- Agreement and Disagreement: Creatve conflict.
- In-Progress choices.
- Group Discussion. Voting.
- From the page to the set.
- Production matters. Technical issues, casting, locations.
- Positions. Rotations. Who's the Director here?
- Scheduling.
- SHOOTING.

Post-Production
- Film editing as a narrative device.
- Leaders, followers, participants.
- Finalization.
- Group Discussion

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OTHER WORKSHOPS

BASIC 1 - Movies Without Camera

To recognize, experience and separate the prime elements of cinema into layers to overlap: image, text, soundscape, dialogue, rhythm, foreground, background, focal length, frames. The workshop creates film scenes without camera, then chooses one to shoot for real.

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2- Making a Scene (Writing withuot Writing)

This writing method is transparent and non-conflictual with conventional script-writing Big Names, such as Campbell, Mc Kee or Syd Field. Show your writer-Self new layers of possibiliy, free associaton, and problem re-solving. Write non-imitative scenes based on physicality, not verbosity. Then fine-tune them for rhythm, impact, comedy. Discover the power of your unique creative process. Become a more marketable, happier screenwriter.

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3 - Cut Away (Editing)

Cutting found footage or your short film and make a finished film. How to re-write during the edit? Hear from a Cinemahead who has apprenticed with Walter Murch, editor of "Apocalypse Now" and "The Conversation". (FInal Cut Pro or better preferred.)

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ONLINE Mentor

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Films mentored

Apprentices (a bottega)

Cinemahead is looking for talented and motivated film apprentices.

Did you know that Fellini and Truffeau both apprenticed with Roberto Rossellini?

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Seminars

A) YOUTH CINEMA

This inspiration talk supports .orgs making local Youth Cinema around the globe.

(2 hrs)

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B) HYBRID CINEMA

Non-linear film structures meet genre-less newmedia. From videogame to narrative story matrixes, serial story and mobile content.

(3 hrs)

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C) CINEMAHEAD LINGO (A to Z)

What a young media artist needs to convince her parents to pay for film school; What a film teacher may needs to go beyond technical training and into the unfamiliar. A free association creative seminar on "Living in the Film Dimension"

A CINEMATIC MOMENT : What is that?
BEATS
CHOICES: Scars and personal history.

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YOUTH CINEMA Lab

Cinemahead will run Youth Cinema Labs in coop with local organizatons. Participants develop story outlines, plan shoort and edit short films and media. This format is ideal for regional resource centers with the goal of nurturing the local digital film base.

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