We are in the fourth week of our winter term The Director as Story Teller: Creating the Documentary. I am very proud of our students dedication, courage and passionate creativity!
Our students have been honored with the presence of very creative, talented and unique mentors. Andre Parente a independent director form Rome who taught a fantastic workshop on The Psychology of the camera and really helped the students understand the concept of letting the story motivate the camera along with a true pearl of wisdom for all independent film makers "Let your limitations be your inspirations!"
This week we have an incredibly inspiring artist Andi Nufer who is taking our students creativty to the max with her installation art and mulit media concepts. She is helping them bring a deeper creativity and origionality to their documentary films that will make their work stand out among the glut of film shorts!
Yesterday we were introduced to the concept of mind mapping and I would like to direct our students to a website and video clip that explains that in greater detail.
http://www.jcu.edu.au/studying/services/studyskills/mindmap/
31 January 2008
28 January 2008
Notes on the Sound Design Workshop
First of all, hello to my workshop participants, Jamy, Nannette & Chris-I'd love some feedback on what you want to get out of this workshop. If you get a chance, please send me an e-mail- since we're a small group, I'd like to conduct this as a conversation.
Here's a the best way to prepare for the workshop:
1) Download the .zip file with the reading materials (http://www.divshare.com/download/3629705-038), and finish reading as much as you can before the workshop begins. Some tips:
2) DON'T TRY TO MEMORIZE THIS STUFF, especially not the technical info. It is only meant to give you an overview; of certain terms needed to do sound design for your film projects, basic info regarding the use of sound & music, and hopefully, some insights to think of sound & music in a new way.
One basic source I used to gather the materials was an online library (http://www.questia.com) that only lets me copy documents one page-at-a-time. I've organize the separate pages into folders, and hope this doesn't make too much inconvenience. Some of the folders have links to websites that might be useful. Many sites on sound & music are very technical, or too full of advertising to be relevant- again, this info intended as an overview.
The material is contained in the folder "Philosophy Of Music" will, I hope, spark some interesting conversation - please give these six pages some special attention.
3) I noticed that all of you have a Yahoo or Hotmail e-mail account. This is important, because you will need it to register for various websites where you can download sound & music for your film projects. If you have a problem with giving this e-mail address (fear of spam, etc.), please start another e-mail account like Yahoo/Hotmail that you can access from a web browser.
As I said in my 1st blog post, I want this to be as much a learning/sharing experience as a teaching one, all the more so because we're a small group.
See you soon,
Loren
mail@loren-taylor.net
Here's a the best way to prepare for the workshop:
1) Download the .zip file with the reading materials (http://www.divshare.com/download/3629705-038), and finish reading as much as you can before the workshop begins. Some tips:
2) DON'T TRY TO MEMORIZE THIS STUFF, especially not the technical info. It is only meant to give you an overview; of certain terms needed to do sound design for your film projects, basic info regarding the use of sound & music, and hopefully, some insights to think of sound & music in a new way.
One basic source I used to gather the materials was an online library (http://www.questia.com) that only lets me copy documents one page-at-a-time. I've organize the separate pages into folders, and hope this doesn't make too much inconvenience. Some of the folders have links to websites that might be useful. Many sites on sound & music are very technical, or too full of advertising to be relevant- again, this info intended as an overview.
The material is contained in the folder "Philosophy Of Music" will, I hope, spark some interesting conversation - please give these six pages some special attention.
3) I noticed that all of you have a Yahoo or Hotmail e-mail account. This is important, because you will need it to register for various websites where you can download sound & music for your film projects. If you have a problem with giving this e-mail address (fear of spam, etc.), please start another e-mail account like Yahoo/Hotmail that you can access from a web browser.
As I said in my 1st blog post, I want this to be as much a learning/sharing experience as a teaching one, all the more so because we're a small group.
See you soon,
Loren
mail@loren-taylor.net
14 January 2008
Babelgum
Just a quick post to add an interesting link to the ones Jason already suggested
Babel Gum
This site is endorsed by the Clermont Ferrand film festival, one of the most important in Europe for short movies, and by the director Spike Lee.
Its dedicated to short movies and documentaries and it's an interesting opportunity to show your (our :-) stuff.
Babel Gum
This site is endorsed by the Clermont Ferrand film festival, one of the most important in Europe for short movies, and by the director Spike Lee.
Its dedicated to short movies and documentaries and it's an interesting opportunity to show your (our :-) stuff.
09 January 2008
08 January 2008
See you soon!
Hi everyone,
My name is Andrea and despite the name I’m a man (you’ll learn in few days Andrea is a male name here in Italy).
It’s pretty exiting to know you already begun to work, unfortunately I live in Rome and I won’t be able to meet you before the workshop but we’re going to spend together one week that I hope will be intense and pleasant.
During the workshop you’ll be invited to look at the documentary with an artistic, narrative and experimental approach.
Beginning from the study of few paintings we will follow a path that goes from the different ways of filming reality to narrative examples of fiction movies applied or applicable to the documentary language.
A good part of the workshop will be dedicated to practical exercises in order to understand better the theoretical part and to learn how to use the basic of the camera and of the editing software.
I’ll be following your journey using the blog so I hope to have a small summary everyday, if you have any question we can use the blog to talk or you can e-mail me (and757@gmail.com).
Enjoy each day of this experience!
See you soon
Andrea
My name is Andrea and despite the name I’m a man (you’ll learn in few days Andrea is a male name here in Italy).
It’s pretty exiting to know you already begun to work, unfortunately I live in Rome and I won’t be able to meet you before the workshop but we’re going to spend together one week that I hope will be intense and pleasant.
During the workshop you’ll be invited to look at the documentary with an artistic, narrative and experimental approach.
Beginning from the study of few paintings we will follow a path that goes from the different ways of filming reality to narrative examples of fiction movies applied or applicable to the documentary language.
A good part of the workshop will be dedicated to practical exercises in order to understand better the theoretical part and to learn how to use the basic of the camera and of the editing software.
I’ll be following your journey using the blog so I hope to have a small summary everyday, if you have any question we can use the blog to talk or you can e-mail me (and757@gmail.com).
Enjoy each day of this experience!
See you soon
Andrea
03 January 2008
Greetings from The Music Guy
Hello to the FFS family-
My name is Loren Taylor, & I'll be teaching a workshop on music & sound for film. In keeping with the artistic direction laid down by director Elizabeth Monroy, the main thrust of this workshop is simple: to spark your brain cells and opening up your thinking. Specifically in two ways: 1) to think of music & sound not merely as an add-on to the visual image, and 2) to demonstrate how music & sound can create moods & feelings.
I'm hoping that my experience with FFS is as much a learning as a teaching experience. I'm looking forward to getting to know the students not just as receptacles for information, but as artists. And I've heard so much from Elizabeth about the creative atmosphere of Florence that I'm excited to meet the other instructors and find out what they're all about, too.
For those who are interested: you can find out more about me from my website (http://loren-taylor.net/bio.html), or drop me an e-mail (mail@loren-taylor.net) with any questions, comments, feelings or observations you have.
Peace,
Loren
My name is Loren Taylor, & I'll be teaching a workshop on music & sound for film. In keeping with the artistic direction laid down by director Elizabeth Monroy, the main thrust of this workshop is simple: to spark your brain cells and opening up your thinking. Specifically in two ways: 1) to think of music & sound not merely as an add-on to the visual image, and 2) to demonstrate how music & sound can create moods & feelings.
I'm hoping that my experience with FFS is as much a learning as a teaching experience. I'm looking forward to getting to know the students not just as receptacles for information, but as artists. And I've heard so much from Elizabeth about the creative atmosphere of Florence that I'm excited to meet the other instructors and find out what they're all about, too.
For those who are interested: you can find out more about me from my website (http://loren-taylor.net/bio.html), or drop me an e-mail (mail@loren-taylor.net) with any questions, comments, feelings or observations you have.
Peace,
Loren
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