An Introduction to the Planning Steps and Jobs Involved in Shooting A Low Budget Short Scripted Film
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2011, 11:00am – 4:00pm
Free! Limited Seating
To Pre-Register: communityfilm@wearebyfc.org 718 935-0490
(Pre-Registration suggested but not mandatory. The day of the workshop Drop-ins will be allowed in if there is space.)
Farragut Community Center, 228 York Street*, Brooklyn
Students from the Brooklyn Young Filmmakers “MAKE A FILM” classes, assisted by local film professionals, will demonstrate how to prepare for, crew, rehearse, and shoot a low budget short film by actually doing a mock shoot on the set created for MY FAMILIA, the short film the BYFC Make A Film Class will be shooting the following weekend. Audience members will be invited to participate in directing and acting exercises.
TOPICS COVERED:
- Script as a blueprint and how it might need to change when you have the actual set and actors
- Working with actors (including how to help an actor change what they are doing when it’s not working)
- Using wardrobe, make-up, props, and set to expand upon the visuals of an actor’s performance, and to
heighten the production values of the world the camera captures.
- Developing a shot list and lighting design
- Location planning
- Rolling camera, hot sets, set do’s and don’ts
- Continuity – making sure different shots will edit together well (including following the movement of props
and body parts)
- Properly using a boom and a sound mixer
- Basics you need in your production assistant kit
- Feeding your army
(*The Farragut Community Center is located in the first floors of a residential building in Fort Greene public housing. The entrance to the center is around the back of the building near the playground. Cross street is Navy Street Five long blocks from the F train-York St Station)
CHECK OUT & SUPPORT: Brooklyn Young Filmmakers fundraising campaign for MY FAMILIA at www.indiegogo (use search words: “Community Filmmaking”). See a video on us and what we do! Help us just by visiting our campaign! The more people who visit it the better our placement on the site. The campaign is only for 30 days! So visit it now and help us get it seen by more people. Support us doing a creative project on the campus of public housing.
