Workshops


Video, Film and Animation workshops for teens

The Woods Hole Film Festival and the Cape Cod Conservatory are pleased to announce their new collaboration and to offer a series of classes in digital and computer filmmaking for students ages 10 & Up

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PIPELINE TO HOLLYWOOD
with Hollywood entertainment lawyer Harris Tulchin
 
Dates: Saturday, July 31st and Sunday, August 1st, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Cost: $249 two days, $199 one day.
Location: Falmouth Community TV 13. Directions.
No experience required.
Register by phone 508-457-0800 or by mail Adobe PDF Registration Form

Course description:  This unique two day seminar is aimed at breaking down the traditional barriers to Hollywood.
Seminar Highlights:
--The most up-to-date information and business and legal strategies in turning your script into a film including; pitching your project; how to develop, produce, and finance film and TV projects; negotiating contracts with actors, directors, writers and producers, copyright protection, insurance issues, distribution and marketing strategies, digital moviemaking and much more.

Day one will focus on developing, financing and producing your film. Once your film is made, what happens next? Day two will focus on Licensing and Distribution.

About the Instructor: Based in Los Angeles, Harris Tulchin is the CEO of Harris Tulchin & Associates and has been an entertainment attorney representing media for over twenty-five years, has not only been a major studio attorney and executive, but has represented such high profile clients as rap icon/producer/actor Ice Cube, Oscar nominated film director David Lynch, film director Wayne Wang, Star Trek III-VI, X-Men 1-3 film producer Ralph Winter, Wall Street film producer Ed Pressman, Sony, MGM/United Artists, Universal/MCA, Media 8 producer of Monster, HBO, and Showtime. He is also the CEO of Tulchin Entertainment, specializing in the licensing and distribution of independent films and projects. He has produced or executive produced nine films including award winning To Sleep with Anger, Guy, etc. and has repped hundreds of films with superstars including Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, Danny Glover, William Shatner, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Hope Davis. He is the co-author of the best selling trade publication "The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook."
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JUMPSTART: One Day in the Life of a Documentary
with award winning documentary filmmaker Kate Davis

Date: Thursday, August 5th
Locations: Falmouth Community TV-13 (Directions) & Woods Hole Community Hall (Directions)
Fee: $100.00 per person/WHFF Full Access Passholders and FCTV members $25 dollar discount.
Limit 12 people. 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. evening shoot at the Woods Hole Community Hall
Register by phone 508-457-0800 or by mail Adobe PDF Registration Form

Course description:  This documentary production workshop will focus on the elements of documentary filmmaking by making a short documentary. Students will work in teams under the supervision of Kate Davis to structure and shoot a short documentary. Comedian David Lasagna, both before, during and after a live performance of his one-man show "Lectures from the University of Dave" on Thursday, August 5th at the Woods Hole Community Hall is the subject of the film. Students should have some familiarity with a camera and should be able to work well in teams.

About the Instructor: Davis’ theatrical films include “Girltalk,” a feature-length film about three abused, runaway girls, “A World Alive,” “Requiem for the Planet,” “Total Baby,” “Vacant Lot” and "Southern Comfort." Her works have been screened at theaters across the country, and broadcast worldwide (including Channel 4 in England and La Sept in France). Awards include a CINE Golden Eagle and prizes at the Chicago Film Festival, the USA Film Festival, the Houston International Film Festival, the Leningrad Film Festival, the New England Film Festival, and the Oberhousen International Film Festival.
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Directing Workshop:
“So You Want to Be a Movie Director . . .”
with New York filmmaker Mark Gasper

Dates: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, August 2 – 4, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Please bring lunch.
Fee:   $285.
Students should have some familiarity with basic filmmaking. Please bring lunch.
Location: Falmouth Community TV-13. Directions.
Register by phone 508-457-0800 or by mail Adobe PDF Registration Form

Course description:  Invest 3 days in an intensive, hands-on, participatory Directing Workshop where you will be provided with the rare opportunity to try your hand at . . .Directing a Dramatic or Comedic Movie Scene. Learn: The values & pitfalls of Improvisation, How to Build a Performance, Script Interpretation, How to Prepare a Scene to Shoot, Directing on the Set, Shooting for the Edit, How a Scene is Edited together

Students will be asked to provide a 2 minute scene which they would like to shoot at the beginning of class.

About the Instructor: Mark Gasper has been an Independent Filmmaker for more than 20 years. During that time he has Written, Directed and Produced more than 100 projects. Among his major accomplishments are An Empty Bed (a dramatic film about a gay man in his mid-60s reflecting back on his life, which has been broadcast in 5 countries, screened in 70 cities and is distributed on Home Video domestically) and East 182nd Street (4 pilot episodes of a TV Series best described as “Beverly Hills 90210 in the Bronx”, which is entirely written & created by teenagers). Mark is currently seeking production funds to shoot his original feature-length screenplay, Lights Out and is completing his first documentary, Surviving in the New War Zone: A Love Poem, a feature-length documentary about the aftermath of 9/11.
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SCREENPLAY DEVELOPMENT:
How To Develop Your Screenplay So It Will Be Produced
with screenwriter JP Ouellette

Saturday, August 7, 11 AM - 5 PM - Bring a light lunch
Fee: $100 
Limit: 12. 
Location: Falmouth Community TV-13, 310 Dillingham Ave., Falmouth, MA 02540. Directions.
Register by phone 508-457-0800 or by mail Adobe PDF Registration Form

Course description:  Before anyone, including yourself, makes your screenplay into a movie, the screenplay itself will have to convince a script reader, a producer, a director, actors, investors, a distributor, and a plethora of marketing professionals that it will not only connect with the audience you are writing for but that they will be able to promote it successfully to that audience. 

This intensive workshop reviews the requirements for a successful project and how to keep your creative integrity within the constraints of the medium.  Participants should bring two practice story ideas in formative stage to the course: a log line and one paragraph description of the story's beginning, middle, and end.  Pad and pencil/pen highly suggested.  Through lecture, discussion, and interactive reviews of the projects, each participant will develop one of their projects towards a marketable and artistic beginning. 

About the Instructor:  JP Ouellette is a long time industry professional whose credits begin with apprenticeships to Orson Welles and Russ Meyer and include freelance script revision in L.A., second unit director on The Terminator,  writer/director of H.P. Lovecraft's The Unnamable I and II, and co-producer on Garth Donovan's Everyone's Got One.   He has produced international television, industrials, documentaries, and features. 
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WOODS HOLE DIGITAL DAY 2004
Date and time: Saturday, August 7, 10 AM - 4 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station. Directions.
Presentations throughout the day with product demonstrations downstairs and short session seminars upstairs. Registration is not required, seating on first-come-first-served basis

Tech Day offers festival goers and the Woods Hole community the opportunity to interact with other filmmakers and to learn more about what's involved in the process of digital filmmaking via informal exhibits and filmmaker panels in a festive setting. See firsthand some of the latest consumer to professional digital video cameras, including HD cameras offered through Boston Camera Rental Company. Learn hands-on all about the process of making a movie come alive with Apple iLife '04, Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro HD. See how filmmakers use the process of bluescreen and chromakey to build virtual sets for broadcast and film, courtesy of ReflecMedia and Bogen Imaging. Attend a special panel discussion on editing HD footage shot with the Panasonic Varicam with Final Cut Pro HD, presented by David Bigelow of Moody Street Pictures. Meet and network with others interested in digital filmmaking. Woods Hole Digital Day will go "behind the scenes" to allow festival goers to get a peek at what's involved in bringing digital elements together to tell a story.
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