CFD announces

The May – July, 2006,
8-Weekend Filmmaking Course

The course starting next is for eight consecutive weekends:
Saturday 6 – 8 PM and Sunday 11 AM -1.00 PM.

That’s 32 hours of classroom sessions.
The ‘praticals’ are outside classroom hours and flexi time.

Besides, every trainee will need to develop a script, shoot and edit it by the end of the course. Our camera, sound and editing facilities would be made available for this.

You are invited to an Orientation Session
with Prakash Belawadi, course director,
on Saturday, May 20 at 6 PM at CFD
to learn more about the course.

This course is for Rs 10,000.

The ‘hidden’ cost will be for tapes to shoot (depends on how much you want to use. a mini dv 1-hour tape would cost about Rs 150 or less) and transport costs and (in case you need) expensive locations, costumes or actors for your 5-min short film.

The proposed course structure:

Weekend 1
An overview of technology issues and the emerging state of the art;

Weekend 2
Narratives, Semiotics, Left- and Right-Side Functions of the Brain and How Film is Different from Other Narrative Forms; Prejudice, Race, Gender, Society and Politics (Why They are More Sensitive in Cinema);

Weekend 3
Story, Research, Setting; Location and Sets; Scripting, Dialogue, Casting, Scheduling and Budgeting; Approaches to Non-Fiction;

Output 1: Trainee Storylines

Weekend 4
Camera, Lenses, Accessories; Lighting; The Camera Axis and Spatial Reference;

Weekend 5
Sound, Continuity and Edit Notes

Weekend 6
Mise-en-Scene (The Director’s Method); Shot Breakdown;

Output 2: Trainee Shooting Scripts with Shot Breakdown

Weekend 7
Discussion on Scripts/ Open Sessions

Weekend 8
Editing, Dubbing, Sound Mixing; Grading, FX and SFX

Output 3: Trainee Films
Screening of Trainee Films; Criticism

The Workshop is specially aimed at youngsters who will be introduced to a new way of approaching theatre and drama. Based on a movement module rather than a text module, it will help youngsters understand the difference between text and performance and the connection between the two. The group will focus on “doing” rather than learning or theory-based drama.

The Weeklong workshop will explore physical theatre and the relevance of language and text.  The exercises and movements are aimed at stimulating the imagination and creativity. Improvisations based on concepts and thoughts and the ability to create from an idea rather than a ready text will form the crux of the Workshop.

The workshop will focus on theatre exercises, movements and games for anyone interested in exploring the field of acting or performance. It will also help in enhancing your everyday life skills (no matter what your vocation) and the capacity to be imaginative and creative.

Workshop Conductor: Sujay Saple from Mumbai
Venue: Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, Vasantnagar.
Age Group:  12 to 18 years
Date: 2nd May to 6th May 2006
Duration: 10 am to 1 pm daily
Fees: Rs 750/- per participant

To Register call 9845209716 or email justtheatre@gmail.com

LIMITED NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS ONLY

Sujay Saple is a theatre practitioner from Mumbai, and has been involved with The Company Theatre for the last four years in various capacities; as actor, as assistant director, as production manager and as project coordinator.  Sujay has also been part of the team that conducts summertime theatre workshops at Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai.

The Workshop is supported by The Alliance Francaise de Bangalore and is part of The Beckett Centenary Celebrations.

The workshop is for a duration of 3 weekends – 6 sessions. It will cover the basics of acting Classes are on Saturday from 4 pm to 7 pm & Sundays from 3 pm to 6 pm to be held at Jaynagar. Hurry since the ceiling limit for the workshop is only 15 participants. The workshop would be handled by graduates of National School of Drama who are highly experienced and in the profession of theatre for more than 25
years.

The course fee will be Rs 1500/- and a registration fee of Rs 150/-. The course will begin on May 20th 2006.

Contact Anuradha e-mail anuhr@vsnl.net or call 9845425477

Interested in theatre and don’t know where to start? Here’s your opportunity…

“Theatrical”, a two-day theatre workshop for newbies and the slightly more experienced (or the plain curious), will be held in Bangalore this weekend. Aiming to introduce elements of theatre and expand horizons, voices and thoughts, the workshop will cover the following topics:

- The basics of theatre
- What it takes to be a playwright/actor/director /crewmember
- Loosen your body, free your mind
- Speak up
- Onstage vs Backstage
- Laugh, cry, shout, whisper
- Building a scene
- Working with your co-stars
- Bringing the audience into your world

The workshop dates are 22 and 23 Oct, 10.30 am to 5 pm on both days.
The cost is Rs. 800 per head including workshop material and refreshments.
The workshop will be conducted by Aditya Sengupta, a theatre enthusiast, aspiring writer, and open source technology evangelist. Aditya Sengupta has been involved with theatre since he was six when he acted in Luigi Pirendello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author. Since then, he has produced and directed various productions including A Map of the World, Mangalam, Inner Laws, Keats was a Tuber, and Getaway. Currently, he is busy managing a software firm takeoff and editing a book of children’s plays for Penguin. In his free time, he reads, listens to jazz and plays with Dobby, a hyperactive pomeranian.

For further details on venue and registration, please contact:

Aditya Sengupta
aditseng@gmail.com
+91 9880600355

Fire up your creative impulses and get to work on your masterpiece! Start work on that novel or play you’ve always been planning to write. Evoke the poetry within you or pen that short story. Write that play you want to be staged or get cracking on that script for television or celluloid. Join up and let your creative impulses be captured in words…

Still Waters in Association with Centre For Film and Drama announces a Workshop on Creative Writing that spans over 10 Weekends.

Venue: CFD, Sona Towers, Millers Road
Date of Commencement: November 5, 2005.
Contact: 9886071777/51231625

Facilitators
Vijjay Nair is a Bangalore based playwright and novelist. He has a post-graduate diploma in Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Vijjay wrote and staged his first play Scars in my memory in the year 2001. He followed it up with Weeds, Shadows on the wall, The Window, The Gloomy Rabbit, Shut the Door and Raja Lahiri. Drone Quill publishers launched his first collection of plays The Gloomy Rabbit and other plays in the year 2003. Vijjay was the script consultant for Stumble, the film that won the national award for the Best English Language feature film in 2003. In 2004 Vijjay was awarded the British Council-Charles Wallace Fellowship and he was the writer in residence in the University of Kent, Canterbury, for a term. He adapted William Shakespeare’s King Lear and the adaptation directed by Preetam Koilpillai premiered in Bangalore in September 2005.

His first novel The Master of Life Skills is being published by Harper Collins India and is due to be launched shortly. He has just completed his second novel Yellow.

Prakash Belawadi is a senior journalist and theatre veteran based in Bangalore. He has worked for leading publications like The Indian Express, SUNDAY weekly and he was the Chief of News Service of The Asian Age in New Delhi. Currently he is the Editorial Advisor to the weekly Bangalore Bias.

Prakash writes in English as well as Kannada and he has written and directed original plays as well as adaptations in both the languages. His debut film, Stumble, written and directed by him, won the National Award for the best English Language Feature Film in 2003. Prakash has also written and directed many television serials in Kannada. The television serial Garva written and directed by him for ETV was widely hailed as path breaking and proactively changing the idiom of daily television soaps. It went on to garner many awards.

Prakash set up Centre for Film and Drama with fellow media professionals in 2004 as a media training and production academy with its own studio theatre, Nani Arena, for staging plays and screenings; a professional post-production sound and video editing and recording facility; camera, sound and accessories lab; photography studio and art gallery. Prakash is one of the key organisers of Bangalore Habba, an annual festival to celebrate the cultural ethos of Bangalore.