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WORKSHOPS
 The Jon Jost Workshop
SPECIAL 3 DAY WORKSHOP
Thursday, August 3 to Saturday, August 5
The Old Woods Hole Fire Station, 10 AM
Cost: $250.00
The Art and Craft of Digital Filmmaking
This is a hands-on workshop focusing primarily on the aesthetic and technical qualities of digital video cameras. The emphasis is on creative use of these cameras, utilizing their wide flexibility for making imagery, particularly images which are distinctly and uniquely characteristic of digital media as opposed to film. We will not offer the supposed secrets of "the film look" but rather will concentrate on the virtues of electronically acquired and manipulated imagery.
 Participants will immediately be shooting, under guidance in a manner designed to provide as quickly as possible a sense of the actual capacities of DV cameras, be they low-end consumer cameras or high-end "professional" ones. At the end of the workshop, if all goes well, each participant should have made several short works. It should be noted that my axiom for teaching is that one learns best from one's own experience, and absolutely the best when one is having fun.
Participants are asked to bring their own cameras, and if they have notebook computers for editing, also those. Owing to the limited time we will only touch on editing, though we may do a quick edit on some of the exercises.
About the Instructor: Jon Jost began his career making 16mm films. He is self-taught. Jost made his first feature-length film in 1974, and has since devoted to the making of a wide-ranging series of films, largely focused on specifically American topics, in form ranging from essays, to essay-fictions, to avant-garde and new narrative forms. His work has shown widely in museums, film archives and festivals since 1975. In 1991, The MOMA in New York assembled and presented a complete retrospective of Jost's work encompassing 11 features and 5 programs of shorts.
WHFF is presenting an evening tribute
to Mr. Jost. For more information on the even and on Mr. Jost's life
and work click HERE
 The Sheldon Mirowitz Workshop
SPECIAL 1 DAY FILM SCORING WORKSHOP
Thursday, August 3
Fire Station, 1 pm
Cost: $25.00
Sheldon Mirowitz Master Class: Film Scoring
The score of a film is critical to its success. Berklee School of Music Professor Sheldon Mirowitz will provide insight and inspiration about how to make your film sound the way you want it to.
About the Instructor: Composer Sheldon Mirowitz has scored more than fifty film and TV projects. He has been nominated three times for an Emmy Award for best music, most recently for the score to the A&E movie "The Nazi Officer's Wife". His credits include the score to the Oscar-nominated "Troublesome Creek", winner of both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance (soundtrack available on Daring/Rounder Records), and the score for the Peabody Award winning mini-series "Odyssey of Life" (soundtrack available on Windham Hill/BMG). He has written theme music for networks ranging from MTV to The History Channel, and has scored hundreds of radio and television commercials, including award winning work for such clients as Converse, Kodak, UPS, Reebok and AT&T.
 His other work includes the score to the Miramax comedy "Outside Providence" (written and produced by Michael Corrente and the Farrelly Brothers), the score to the four-hour Hallmark mini-series, "Johnson County War" (written and produced by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, starring Tom Berenger), and the score to "Missing in America" (starring Danny Glover, David Strathairn and Ron Perlman).
In addition to his work as a film composer, Sheldon (a noted multi-instrumentalist and arranger) has recorded with or produced a wide range of highly regarded New England-based recording artists, including singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor, new-folk luminary Patty Larkin, rocker Reeves Gabrels, country stalwart John Lincoln Wright, and Celtic star Aine Minogue. He has also recorded under his own name on the Narada label. His release of the soundtrack to "Columbus and the Age of Discovery" received high critical notice and was voted Runner-Up Best Soundtrack Album of the Year in CD Review magazine.
Besides composing and performing, Sheldon also serves on the faculty at Berklee College of Music, where he is an associate professor in the film scoring department.
Sign up now as space will close up fast,
email: md@woodsholefilmfestival.org
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