Workshop+Descriptions



Please sign up for workshops on the Workshops Page. **Session 1:**   **Garage Band** OK so you've all played around with GarageBand on your mac before, and had fun for 5 minutes, but did you know you can use it as a very powerful tool to soundtrack movies? This workshop will show you have to soundtrack movies easily and with awesome results using GarageBand. Students will each be given a 2 minute segment of a Mr Bean video to completely soundtrack. Background music, Foley sounds (all the weird and non weird sound that might be happening on or off screen), sound effects and ADR (dialogue replacement) will be added to this silent Mr. Bean video.

Sound is one of the most overlooked and most important parts of film. Foley artists are sound designers. In this workshop we'll become foley artists and recreate scenes from movies with new sounds- and see how important sound really is.
 * Foley for Sound **

**S2F2 Documentary Team One** Join a small group of documentary filmmakers who will engage in active fieldwork to shoot video and report on the S2F2 workshops and festival. We'll firstly gather to debrief, make a plan and check out camera equipment. Then teams will desperse to shoot location shots and interview/documentary footage of the S2F2 workshops. Footage will be collected at the end of the sessions and assembled into a promotional video for next year's S2F2. 

Can you make a film in 80 minutes? Do you have the skills and creativity to make something from scratch and screen it at the end of the workshop? Get your creative juices flowing and join us as you try your best to create something extraordinary under a tight timeline and stringent requirements. With our 80 minute film making workshop, your team will write, storyboard, shoot, add effects, and edit your very own movie to be screened at the festival later that night. All you need is creativity and the willpower to get it done!   **Animation** Stop-Motion Animation: Do the impossible! Using cameras and computers we can make just about anything happen: Do you want to walk on the ceiling? Fly? Bring inanimate objects to life? Walk through a solid wall? The technology is easy—the only limit is your imagination. During this workshop, we will spend time doing some hands-on activities using [|Boinx iStopmotion]. We will also be looking at how to use iMovie and other programs that can be tweaked to make an animation. Bring your imagination and plan to have some fun.
 * How to Make a Film in 80 Minutes (Part 1 of 2) **

Acting is Believing...this is true for ALL acting. Film acting, however, requires an especially powerful suspension of disbelief. Make-up, lighting, camera, sound-crew; all are whirling around you. "Action!" is shouted and you are expected to give a moving, funny and/or poignant performance. This workshop aims to help the budding film and TV actor put all these distractions aside and deliver a focused and effective performance for the camera. Through hands-on exercises with a camera and monitor, workshop participants will be introduced to key concepts such as emotional preparation, hitting marks, the importance of continuity and playing to the lens. The end result will be the learning of skills that will not only make a strong film actor but a powerful performer as a whole.
 * Acting for Film **

**Session 2:** **Garage Band** OK so you've all played around with GarageBand on your mac before, and had fun for 5 minutes, but did you know you can use it as a very powerful tool to soundtrack movies? This workshop will show you have to soundtrack movies easily and with awesome results using GarageBand. Students will each be given a 2 minute segment of a Mr Bean video to completely soundtrack. Background music, Foley sounds (all the weird and non weird sound that might be happening on or off screen), sound effects and ADR (dialogue replacement) will be added to this silent Mr. Bean video.

**Need an Idea for a Movie?** Workshop participants will explore various blueprints on 'how to' build-on an idea to create a movie. Often, it is the idea/theme that is the most difficult part of starting a movie and this workshop will provide strategies on how to build a frame to create a central theme for the movie.

Almost every movie that uses special effects uses some kind of greenscreening. This makes it look as if characters are someplace they can't be or doing something impossible in real life. We'll see how this works by filming against a green screen and putting ourselves in new locations.
 * Greenscreening **

 A Forum for students to meet, brainstorm and discuss student leadership with S2F2 for next year. Sky McCloud will be sharing her experiences of starting a student film festival at her own school. Question and Answer with Sky - Brainstorm ideas - Students Get Involved!  What makes a good film? We'll look at a couple popular and quality films to figure out what makes them good. We'll look at cinemtography, editing, sound, and lighting.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">Student Leadership – Shanghai Student Film Festival **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">Film Analysis **

This is a continuation of Part 1: Can you make a film in 80 minutes? Do you have the skills and creativity to make something from scratch and screen it at the end of the workshop? Get your creative juices flowing and join us as you try your best to create something extraordinary under a tight timeline and stringent requirements. With our 80 minute film making workshop, your team will write, storyboard, shoot, add effects, and edit your very own movie to be screened at the festival later that night. All you need is creativity and the willpower to get it done!
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">How to Make a Film in 80 Minutes (Part 2 of 2) **

<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">**S2F2 Documentary Team Two** Join a small group of documentary filmmakers who will engage in active fieldwork to shoot video and report on the S2F2 workshops and festival. We'll firstly gather to debrief, make a plan and check out camera equipment. Then teams will desperse to shoot location shots and interview/documentary footage of the S2F2 workshops. Footage will be collected at the end of the sessions and assembled into a promotional video for next year's S2F2.