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Story to Screen - a film-making workshop with Ashvin Kumar
Summary
Spend five days with Oscar® nominated writer/director Ashvin Kumar, learning
the art and craft of cinema, its history, aesthetics and language; the processes
and techniques of bringing a story to the screen. Learn the art of script
and story writing, directing the camera and actors, making editing choices
in post-production taught from a filmmaker's point of view.
Outline & contents
An intense course with illustrated talks and exercises, drawing upon Ashvin's
own work and cinema-history, viewing the works of great filmmakers, the course
will explore:
Human motives and the screenplay
The construction of shots
The action of the actor
The brutality of a cut
The disbelief of the audience
A good story, well shot, well performed and well edited still constitutes
the essence of making an emotional connection with an audience.
Ashvin shows how filmmakers make that happen and how you can make it happen
for your own story and film.
Approach
In this course, Film is looked at as an art-form that entertains, emphasizing
originality and honesty, celebrating intuition and instinct. Evolving 'thought
processes', rejecting temptation of rote or formula. Appreciating history
of cinema, applying lessons to our own films. Holding on to 'vision' while
facing creative dilemmas, money and time pressures. Cultivating a 'do-it-yourself,
learn-while-working approach. Humility towards crew, gratitude and respect
towards audience.
With the explosion of digital means of producing and exhibiting films, anyone
can purchase a digital camera and editing software and put a movie together.
Storytelling i.e. the ritual telling of universal human experience has not
changed since the first person told the first story around a camp fire in
pre-history. The fundamentals of Visual Storytelling, such as montage theory
and grammar of films, have not changed since the first motion picture camera
was developed.
Qualification & audience
The workshop can be attended by anyone interested in the art and craft of
making films. It provides a versatile set of tools which may be applied across
short, feature, fiction and documentary formats and across multiple genres.
For the first-time filmmaker or film student, learning to think like a visual
storyteller empowers you to write your own story, pick up a camera and go
make a movie. Established filmmakers wishing to reflect upon their process,
for instance, breaking writer's block on a screenplay. Thus, for Screenwriters
who are trying to make their scripts better. Commissioning editors who have
to take a business / creative decision on how to evaluate a script. Producers
to awaken their creative-side and how to communicate with creative people.
And for Directors, it provides an approach to making a shot-list, what to
tell actors and how to direct the camera and edit of a film.
Ashvin Kumar
India's youngest Oscar® nominee, writer, director and editor, his multi-award
winning, critically acclaimed films have been shown in more than hundred festivals
worldwide.
His work and interests in filmmaking have been eclectic moving through short-films,
documentary, feature and medium length fiction pieces; Eclectic range of genre
from art-house to thriller, road movie, human drama; politico-human documentary,
children's film and recently a unique participatory film involving employing
school-kids both in front and behind the camera. His current interests are
in working with kids and in education, making films for kids.
He has taught himself his craft and art in a do-it-yourself approach and tries
to demystify the complex job of a filmmaker. He adopts a simple and direct
approach that aims to provide thinking tools that can be applied universally.
Date, fee & registration
Date / Venue: Thursday, 11th August to Monday, 15th August 2011 at Art Chamber,
Calungute, Goa.
The course fee for this workshop is Rs. 10,000 per participant.
Take advantage of an early bird discount by applying no later than the 15th
of July, and pay the reduced fee of Rs. 7,000 only.
School and college going students with a valid photo-id card from the institution
may apply for the reduced fee for students of Rs. 3,000 only. Students must
apply by the 15th of July.
Participants can register by downloading application from: http://www.facebook.com/storytoscreen
or http://docs.com/CWXI
Contact: film@alipur.com / +918806540395
For more details see: www.facebook.com/storytoscreen
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