Free Kim Longinotto Q&A Documentary Camera Skills Workshop
Highly regarded documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto will be taking part in an InSight Q&A and a screening of her film Rough Aunties in association with UCL from 18.30-21.00, Thursday 21st January.
This is the start of a regular series of free Q&As featuring significant filmmakers from film & TV.
To book email info@insighteducation.org.uk quoting Kim Longinotto in the subject line.
Although the Q&A is free you have the opportunity to give a voluntary donation of £3.00 on the night to help us cover the expenses incurred at the event.
Further details on the Q&A below – more will be announced shortly. Please check out our latest documentary courses, including a week-long workshop in the techniques of documentary camera work with award-winning filmmaker Michael Yorke.
Documentary Courses from January 2010
Producing Docs – Evenings (£175)
Mon, 25 Jan – Mon, 15 Feb 2010
Art of Doc Editing – Weekend (£190)
Sat 22 Mar 2010 – Sun 23 Mar 2010
Documentary Camera Workshop
Mon-Fri, 15 – 19 Feb 2010 – See below
The Skill of Documentary Camerawork – with Michael Yorke
Mon, 15 Feb – Fri, 19 Feb 2010
09.00 – 18.00, UCL
£599 (£480 concs)
“We live in a world of moving images.”
“To communicate our ideas we need to be as fluent in the use of sound and images as in the printed or the spoken word.”
This is a practical hands-on week with digital video cameras designed for participants with non-professional or no previous filming experience. It is especially aimed for anyone using the camera to undertake research.
Five intensive 9-hour days working with award-winning independent documentary filmmaker and anthropologist, Michael Yorke. We provide the equipment – you learn to use a camera to broadcast quality standards.
To book email info@insighteducation.org.uk or go to www.insighteducation.org.uk and click on courses then workshops.
Synopsis:
The course will develop the students’ critical skills of film analysis through the practical application and experience of shooting film exercises and manipulating digital media. It demystifies the process of filmmaking and opens new ways of reading and understanding visually.
You will acquire the theoretical background and the technical skills to complete a video project to broadcast standards. Through the hands-on experience of producing a 1-5 minute video exercise, you will obtain an informed critical insight of the representational capacity of digital video. You will develop and experiment with the ‘pro-filmic’ and the ‘filmic’ realities of image-driven documentation and narrative structure.
Focusing on single person filmmaking, in teams, you will complete four hands-on film exercises. A selection will be edited so you discover how to shoot for the edit. You will learn to write a proposal, present and budget a film, the legal and ethical issues, and what is the best filmic style for you, and your subject.
· Day One: The right equipment: framing and composition, you shoot a one-shot sequence, telling a story, colour control and white balance.
· Day Two: Sound and interview: different microphones, manual sound control and balance, interview technique, you film a public interview.
· Day Three: Filming an action or event: focus and exposure control, structuring a sequence, you shoot an action sequence.
· Day Four: Filming your own team project, masterclass in writing a proposal, film screening.
· Day Five: Buying a camera, the production process, legal, copyright and ethical issues, budgeting a film, festivals, distribution, finding an audience, genres styles and methods of filming. Screening the edited project film.
Tutor:
Dr Michael Yorke is an anthropologist who worked for the BBC Ethnographic Film Unit before becoming an independent freelance documentarist. His films have been broadcast on BBC 1&2, Channel 4, National Geographic, Discovery, CNN, NHK, ARTE and Canal+. He teaches a masters course in ethnographic filmmaking at University College London. He has won numerous documentary awards and has been on the jury of many film festivals. He specialises in filming in remote areas and has directed presenter-lead, magazine series, corporate videos, multiple camera shoots and observational documentaries for broadcast.
Kim Longinotto Q&A & Screening of Rough Aunties
Thursday 21st January
18.30-21.00, UCL, Free
Email info@insighteducation.org.uk to book.
Fearless, feisty and resolute, the “Rough Aunties” are a remarkable group of women unwavering in their stand to protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South Africa.
This documentary by internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto (SISTERS IN LAW, DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE) follows the outspoken, multiracial cadre of Thuli, Mildred, Sdudla, Eureka and Jackie, as they wage a daily battle against systemic apathy, corruption, and greed to help the most vulnerable and disenfranchised of their communities.
Kim Longinotto
Internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto is one of the pre-eminent documentary filmmakers working today, renowned for creating extraordinary human portraits and tackling controversial topics with sensitivity and compassion. Longinotto’s films have won international acclaim and dozens of premiere awards at festivals worldwide, including the World Cinema Jury Prize in Documentary at Sundance for ROUGH AUNTIES.
Highlights include perhaps one of her best known works, SISTERS IN LAW (2005), winner of a 2008 Peabody Award and two Cannes awards, including the Cannes Prix art et Essai Award; THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET (2003), which won the Amnesty International DOEN Award at IDFA and Best Doc UK Spotlight at Hot Docs; the recent HOLD ME TIGHT, LET ME GO (2007), winner of the Special Jury Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA); The BAFTA Award-winning DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE (1998); DREAM GIRLS (1993), winner of Best Documentary at Films de Femmes, Creteil; and SHINJUKU BOYS (1995), winner for Outstanding Documentary at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
Source: Women Make Movies
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