Posted Tuesday 22 Mar 2011
Finding, articulating, protecting and promoting the core essence of your film from the originator's mind to the screen audience, this workshop will be held on 16 and 17 April in Auckland.
Deadline for applications: 5pm Friday 25th March.
This is an intensive 2-day workshop with Gaylene Preston exploring ways to protect the core essence of a film throughout the rigorous process that is filmmaking. This workshop builds on Gaylene's hit seminar, and will explore practical ways to protect 'the It' Every aspect of collaboration from script development to directing on set through to post production will be discussed and a session workshopping with actors is included. A maximum of 15 participants will be selected.
We need to explore that big mysterious exciting unfathomable unifying thing deep in the heart of the film - which I call the 'It'. The It is why you want to make the film in the first place. This workshop explores ways of finding It, articulating It, protecting It, promoting It. - Gaylene Preston
The NZ Film Commission is generously subsidising participants' attendance, thus halving the cost of attending to $100 per participant. Praise for Gaylene's Auckland seminar:
'Filled with gems. I loved being inside such a creative space, where creativity was recognised for the driving and intuitive force it is. Gaylene is the master.' - Sumner Burstyn, writer and producer, This Way of Life
"The 'It' is a project's nameless, ineffable essence ... Gaylene's method is a beautiful complement to the reductionist model of development.' - writer Guy Hamling
This advanced workshop is for creative teams or individuals who have previous filmmaking experience and are actively developing a feature film. Doco/drama hybrid feature teams are welcome. Priority will be given to experienced practitioners working in creative teams.
Click here for full application requirements
You can read more about the event on the Script to Screen site.