Jan. 12: Call for Atlanta ACTORs – Read-Through of Writers’ Scripts – 101 Screenwriting Workshop

As part of our ‘Screenwriting 101’ workshop from Fall 2012 that just wrapped in December 2012, we are offering our first-time writers who have graduated from the class the opportunity to have professional actors perform 10 pages of their screenplays in a special read-through event on Saturday, January 12th at 10AM at: The Plaza Theater 1049 Ponce De Leon Avenue NE Atlanta, GA 30306

We are inviting actors from the local community who would like to volunteer their time and perform the work written by screenwriting students. It will be a memorable event for the writers and we thank you in advance for your support! Actors interested in participating can RSVP ahead of time or come day of by contacting Soweto Bosia at soweto@atlantafilmfestival.com. Participating actors will receive 4 tickets for the Atlanta Film Festival (excludes Opening or Closing Night).

The read-through event (no on-camera performance) will last approximately 2 to 2 ½ hours. And, refreshments will be provided.

Our student writers’ scripts include the following genres:

- coming of age / drama - horror/comedy - romantic comedy - drama - comedy

And, we are seeking multiple actors for each of the following descriptions to provide variety for students’ scripts to be performed:

- Male - 40-50s - Female – 30s+ - Male – “Father” role of adult children – 50s+ - Female – “Mother” role of adult children – 50s+ - Male – teen aged / early 20s - Female – lead in romantic comedies – 20-30s

Thank you for your support!

WRITING THE ONE-HOUR TELEVISION DRAMA June 23 -Sept 15, 2012

CLASS 1:  Creating characters and developing your premiseJune 23, 2012 1st Assignment Due:  July 2nd

CLASS 2:  Creating story beats (mapping out your plot) July 14, 2012 2nd Assignment Due:  July 23rd

CLASS 3:  The ABC’s of Television Dramas August 4, 2012 3rd Assignment Due:  August 15th

CLASS 4:  Finessing your story and writing the script (screenplay formatting) August 25, 2012 4th Assignment Due: September 5th

CLASS 5:  Polishing your draft and working in the industry September 15, 2012

10am - 12:30pm

Location: GSU Campus - ATLFF365 Offices (1 Park Place, SE, 30303)

Price

Individual Sessions

All 5 Sessions General Registration – $275 (15 % Off Full Registration Price) ATLFF365 Member Registration – $225 (30% Off Full Registration Price)

 

This five-part “Screenwriting 201” series will guide students through the development process of turning their ideas into a solid one-hour television series concept. Storytelling structure will be used not as a template, but as a device to create a beat sheet outline. Students will then focus on the steps needed to finish a rough draft. Writers’ room brainstorming sessions will be conducted and scenes from produced shows will be screened and dissected in order to illustrate what works or doesn’t work on the small screen. Students should come prepared with ideas.

Register for all 5 Classes

 

 

CLASS 1: Creating characters and developing your premise June 23, 2012

Writers often have great ideas that prompt creative executives to ask, “But why is this a series?” This first class will examine the character development process and delve into standard structure of the hour-long television format (teaser plus five acts). Find out what elements are needed to transform your idea into a series.

Assignment: Complete character profiles and structural template NOTE: Assignments must be submitted before class to receive feedback in the following session – (Due June 23rd)

Register for Class 1

CLASS 2: Creating story beats (mapping out your story) July 14, 2012

The true task of writing is the story you come up with before going to script. This second class will walk students through the process of plotting story beats for a step-by-step outline. Careful attention will be paid to the series structure developed in the first class.

Assignment: Refine structural template and begin beat sheet (Due July 11th)

Register for Class 2

CLASS 3: The ABC’s of Television August 4, 2012

Hour-long dramas typically have three storylines that are interwoven to create an episode. This third session will be used to examine the A, B and C stories of television and how they are used to heighten drama and conflict. Learn how to plot and interweave multiple storylines for a robust episode.

Assignment: Complete A, B and C stories (Submit by August 1st for feedback in session 4)

Register for Class 3

CLASS 4: Finessing your story and writing the script (screenplay formatting) August 25, 2012

The first part of this fourth session will explore the following elements of 6-act structure: Foreshadowing, set ups and payoffs, dialog, act breaks and the twist. The remaining part of the fourth class will examine the rules and conventions of screenplay formatting. Learn how to format your script in a professional manner.

Assignment: Submit teaser and Act I (Submit by August 18th for feedback in session 5).

Register for Class 4

CLASS 5: Polishing your draft and working in the television industry September 15, 2012

In this fifth and final class, students will learn how to improve and polish their scripts. Remember writing is rewriting. Learn how to tackle your rewrite and assemble submission materials like a logline, synopsis and television treatment. The discussion will end on the television industry and how to improve your chances of breaking into the business.

Register for Class 5

Instructor Bio:

Kevin Collins is an Ivy League graduate with nearly two decades of entertainment industry experience. He has worked for several large studios including Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. and most recently DreamWorks. After years of writing as hobby, Kevin took a draft of his screenplay, “Talk Show,” and used it to gain entrance into the Bill Cosby Screenwriting Fellowship Program located on USC’s film school campus. Even though features were his primary focus, in 2000, Kevin joined the production staff of the Showtime series “Soul Food.” In series television, he learned invaluable knowledge about the production process from writing to post-production.  Fascinated by the world of television, Kevin wrote his first television spec of the then popular series, “Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” which advanced to finalist status in Disney’s Writing Fellowship Program and gained him “consider” status in Fox’s Diversity Writing Program. Two seasons later, Kevin received his first produced credit when he wrote a free-lance episode of Soul Food: the series. The following year, he was hired on as a staff writer in the show’s final season.

Kevin’s passion for storytelling centers on thrillers and sci-fi fantasies in the vein of “Silence of the Lambs,” “Fatal Attraction,” “Blade Runner” and “The Lord of The Rings.” In 2004, he wrote and produced his first short, a thriller entitled, “Headliners” about two competing serial killers. In 2009, he relocated from Los Angeles to Atlanta where he is now a professor of screenwriting at two local art schools, which include the Atlanta campus of The Savannah College of Art and Design and The Creative Circus. Kevin’s most recent work includes a feature-length, fantasy-action screenplay entitled “Mitlandia.” He has lived in Africa and Europe and is fluent in French. His memberships include Cornellians in Entertainment and two independent writers’ groups.

 

Advanced Screenwriting Mentored Workshop June 16 - August 25, 2012

Course: Advanced Screenwriting Mentored Workshop Schedule: Class meets 5 times between June 16 and August 25, 2012

Price:$230 for the non-members

Discounted rate of $175 for ATLFF365 members

Register Now

Location:  GSU Campus - ATLFF365 Offices (1 Park Place, SE, 30303)

Course Description:The “Advanced Screenwriting Mentored Workshop” with instructor Kathy Cabrera is designed for students who have a screenplay that is ready to be fully developed and written. Students will receive mentored guidance in a collaborative small group setting to help develop their initial story into a detailed outline, and to start writing their screenplay pages. The class will meet five times between mid-June and late August 2012.

The course is best suited for students who are already up to speed on the elementary basics of writing screenplay (as covered in the February-May 2012, 4-course series “Screenwriting 101”). Students with knowledge of the screenwriting basics who are new to taking classes with the Atlanta Film Festival 365 are welcome to join (prior classes, like Screenwriting 101, are not required pre-requisites).

Students can work at their own pace but will have the opportunity each class to share their story outlines and excerpts of the scripts they develop in the course for direct feedback from the instructor and fellow students. Students will be expected to also provide collaborative feedback on each other’s work, and can also submit the work they develop between classes via email (and an online Google Group) to the instructor and each other for feedback as well. While some students at the earliest stages of a project may use this course as an opportunity to fully develop their story into a detailed outline and complete the first 30 pages of a script, students who are further along in their projects can also treat each class meeting as a deadline and expect to finish a full draft of their script for review by the instructor. The dates of each class follow:

  • Class 1: Sat, June 16, 2012
  • Class 2: Sat, June 30, 2012
  • Class 3: Sat, July 21, 2012
  • Class 4: Sat, Aug 11, 2012
  • Class 5: Sat, August 25, 2012

The class will meet from 10AM to 12:30PM on each of the above dates. If more than 10 students join the class, a second afternoon session will be offered to accommodate additional attendees.

Students enrolled in this course who finish a screenplay they started in the class will have until September 20, 2012 to submit it for one review only by the instructor for formatting and high-level story notes. The Atlanta Film Festival 365 will also waive the $40 entry fee for students who wish to submit a script developed in this course into the 2013 screenwriting competition (entry deadline November 1, 2012).

Register Now

Instructor Bio:

Kathy Cabrera is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television’s MFA in Screenwriting program. In addition to penning six feature-length screenplays and a drama television pilot, Cabrera has also written and produced several short films. Cabrera has one screenplay optioned and was a finalist for the 2007 NAACP & NBC Screenwriting Fellowship and awarded the 2008 Young and the Restless Fellowship in Television.

A short film she co-wrote with UCLA MFA director Walter Richardson and produced entitled Forgive Us Our Transgressions was awarded the Silver World Medal at the 2010 New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards. The short film, a thesis project for Richardson and Cabrera as part of the UCLA MFA program, was also sponsored by Panavision, Kodak and Technicolor and received generous financial support from the Directors’ Guild of America (DGA) when it was awarded the distinguished Frankenheimer Fellowship. Cabrera and Richardson are currently partnering on a new documentary featuring retired world champion boxer Terry Norris and his mission to protect the long-term health and lives of boxers. Cabrera also produced Atlanta writer-director Jenna Milly’s debut short film, A Peacock- Feathered Blue, which screened first at the Atlanta Film Festival in 2009 and went on to become a featured selection at Austin Film Festival, The Baltimore Women’s Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, LA Shorts Fest, DC Shorts Fest and Branchage International Film Festival in England. Kathy also penned the script for the short film Stew, starring Lourdes Benedicto of the ABC drama V.

In addition to filmmaking and currently working as a freelance writer-producer, Cabrera also serves as the Director of New Media for Carabiner Communications, where she leads the agency’s social media and video initiative to help businesses create a narrative in their messaging to engage their audiences and to build and integrate social media tools and compelling content into their communications campaigns. Cabrera is the media manager for celebrated storytelling guru, movie industry expert, and longtime chairman of UCLA’s legendary graduate program in screenwriting, Richard Walter; as well as Peter Desberg, Professor, California State University Dominguez Hills and Jeffrey Davis, Screenwriting Department Chair and associate professor of film and TV writing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, co-authors of SHOW ME THE FUNNY!: At the Writers’ Table with Hollywood’s Top Comedy Writers.

Cabrera earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication studies from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. She began her own journey in learning the craft of screenwriting by attending classes at the Atlanta Film Festival (then called IMAGE Film & Video Center).

 

Screenwriting 101 | February 18 - May 19, 2012

In a new “Screenwriting 101” series offered by Atlanta Film Festival 365, writers new to the art and craft of screenwriting will have the opportunity to dive-in Hollywood style with a four-part collaborative workshop series. The series, taught by Kathy Cabrera, an independent writer-producer and UCLA MFA Screenwriting alum, embraces the philosophy of learning by doing. Beyond receiving instruction and how-to advice in each class, students will roll up their sleeves and collaborate with the instructor and each other with creative brainstorms, process and content critiques and real-time discussion following in-class viewing of movie examples. The series will cover these four topics key to writing one’s first screenplay: CLASS 1: Before Page One – Crack Your Premise and Plot

  • Saturday, 2/18/12, 10AM to 1:30PM

CLASS 2: Define Your Characters

  •  Saturday, 3/17/12, 10AM to 1:30PM

CLASS 3: The Craft of Writing a Screenplay

  • Saturday, 4/21/12, 10AM to 1:30PM

CLASS 4: What Do I Do Once I Finish My Screenplay

  • Saturday, 5/19/12, 10AM to 1:30PM

Bonus Session – Script Read-Throughs

  • Date TBD (May 2012)

Price

Individual Sessions

In each session, new material will be presented that will serve as a continuation to content presented in the first class for returning students. However, each class will also serve as a new topic with its own standalone lecture and discussion for students who may not have attended previous seminars. In between classes, students will be able to interact and ask questions with one another and the instructor via a secure and member-only online group (access granted upon class attendance). As part of the workshop component to each class, students who bring completed assignments to the seminar will have the opportunity to gain in-class feedback.

Students who pre-purchase and attend all four classes will be given the opportunity to have 5-10 pages of their script performed via a sit-down, table read in a special bonus session. The number of pages read through will be determined by the number of students whose scripts qualify for the read-through (depending on number who signed up and attended all four classes). Location:

Georgia State University - Atlanta Film Festival 365 Conference Room 1 Park Place, SE 8th Floor, Room 840 Atlanta, GA 30303

CLASS 1: Before Page One – Crack Your Premise and Plot - Register Now

Date/Time: Saturday, 2/18/12, 10AM to 1:30PM

In class no. 1, students will learn the essentials to coming up with a story that will sustain them to write 100+ script pages that will in turn warrant 100+ minutes of their audience’s attention. Below are highlights of what will be covered in this segment:

  • How to tell a good story
  • Coming up with a logline
  • Developing the basic idea of a story
  • How to develop plot structure for the opening act - hitting on key points from opening hook to inciting incident
  1. Students will leave with a premise that they can use to start writing or thinking about for their story.
  2. Supporting hand-outs will be provided complete with recommended follow up reading and resources as well as film-specific examples.

Assignment for Class No. 2: Students should develop a two-page treatment for their screenplay.

CLASS 2: Define Your Characters - Register Now

Date/Time: Saturday, 3/17/12, 10AM to 1:30PM

In this session, new material will be presented that will serve as a continuation to content presented in the first class for returning students. This class will also serve as a standalone lecture and discussion for students who were not able to attend class no. 1.

In-class warm-up & workshop:

Students who attended the first class and return with their completed assignment (2-page treatment) will receive in-class review and feedback. In this class, students will learn:

  • How to develop a worthy protagonist
  • How to create a multi-faceted antagonist
  • The role of supporting characters relating to fleshing out the elements of the main characters of the script and their relationship to one another
  • How to define their characters on screen with action, and in the story with emotion
  • How to merge the character’s arc with the appropriate occurrences in the story

Students will be given a checklist of the top aspects they should know about their characters at the start of their story.

Students will also be provided with film-specific character examples discussed during class as well as hand-outs and recommended materials for further reference as they work on their characters at home.

Assignment for Class No. 3: Students should write character bios for their protagonist and antagonist and any key supporting characters.

CLASS 3: The Craft of Writing a Screenplay - Register Now

Date/Time: Saturday, 4/21/12, 10AM to 1:30PM

Students who attend class no. 3 will continue building incremental knowledge needed to either start their first screenplay, or continue building their craft. This session will also welcome new students with standalone material that doesn’t require attendance of the first two classes as a pre-requisite or to fully understand and appreciate what will be offered in this session.

In-class warm-up & workshop:

  •  Students who attended class no. 2 and return with their completed assignment (character bios) will receive in-class review and feedback

The craft of screenwriting will then be broken down, examined and demonstrated in this session, covering the following key formatting elements of screenwriting mechanics:

  • General rules from sluglines to capitalization
  • Structure of a scene
  • Dialogue formatting
  • Standard delivery formats of a screenplay

Hand-outs will be provided to illustrate examples of points discussed in class. Film-specific references will also be made in class.

Assignment for Class No. 4: Write a 2-page scene. Students who submit assignment (2 pages max.) to instructor via email by 5/11/12 will receive comments on their work by the next class. The instructor will provide direct feedback to each student in lieu of holding an in-class workshop component in class no. 4.

CLASS 4: What Do I Do Once I Finish My Screenplay? - Register Now

Date/Time: Saturday, 5/19/12, 10AM to 1:30PM

The entire Screenwriting 101 Series is designed to give new writers the guidance and direction they need to understand the starter elements to writing a screenplay and the know-how to then go off upon completion of the class to finish a script. While the immediate aim of the class itself is for students to write the first 10 script pages, it is important to have an ultimate goal in sight as to what their options are once they do finish their full screenplays. This class will be relevant as a standalone lecture or a conclusion for students who attended previous sessions as to what they should look to achieve once a first draft of their scripts are finished.

Highlights of what will be covered follow:

  • Collecting peer feedback – how to interpret notes received on peer or professional reviews/consultations and determine when to make changes
  • Writing is rewriting – how to maintain the energy and excitement level and putting a process and timeline in place for revisions for the second draft

Students will also receive guidance to help them:

  • Recognize when their screenplays need further work
  • Determine when their scripts are truly ready to be sent out to the industry

Hands outs for reading outside of class will be provided to also help guide students on:

  • How to ‘qualify’ or have their work recognized by selecting contests/competitions they may consider submitting it to
  • How to find resources for targeting agents, production companies and managers relevant to the genre or specific story your script tells
  • Tips for writing query letters and networking in the industry

Assignment for Class No. 5:  Students should write the first 10 pages of their screenplays.

CLASS 5: Special Session and Read-Throughs

Date/Time: TBD (May 2012)

Students who’ve attended all four of the previous classes will be given the opportunity to have 5-10 pages of their script performed via a sit-down, table read. The number of pages read through will be determined by the number of students whose scripts qualify for the read through (depending on number who signed up and attended all four classes).

Register Now

Instructor Bio:

Kathy Cabrera is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television’s MFA in Screenwriting program. In addition to penning six feature-length screenplays and a drama television pilot, Cabrera has also written and produced several short films. Cabrera has one screenplay optioned and was a finalist for the 2007 NAACP & NBC Screenwriting Fellowship and awarded the 2008 Young and the Restless Fellowship in Television.

A short film she co-wrote with UCLA MFA director Walter Richardson and produced entitled Forgive Us Our Transgressions was awarded the Silver World Medal at the 2010 New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards. The short film, a thesis project for Richardson and Cabrera as part of the UCLA MFA program, was also sponsored by Panavision, Kodak and Technicolor and received generous financial support from the Directors’ Guild of America (DGA) when it was awarded the distinguished Frankenheimer Fellowship. Cabrera and Richardson are currently partnering on a new documentary featuring retired world champion boxer Terry Norris and his mission to protect the long-term health and lives of boxers. Cabrera also produced Atlanta writer-director Jenna Milly’s debut short film, A Peacock- Feathered Blue, which screened first at the Atlanta Film Festival in 2009 and went on to become a featured selection at Austin Film Festival, The Baltimore Women's Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, LA Shorts Fest, DC Shorts Fest and Branchage International Film Festival in England. Kathy also penned the script for the short film Stew, starring Lourdes Benedicto of the ABC drama V.

In addition to filmmaking and currently working as a freelance writer-producer, Cabrera also serves as the Director of New Media for Carabiner Communications, where she leads the agency’s social media and video initiative to help businesses create a narrative in their messaging to engage their audiences and to build and integrate social media tools and compelling content into their communications campaigns. Cabrera is the media manager for celebrated storytelling guru, movie industry expert, and longtime chairman of UCLA’s legendary graduate program in screenwriting, Richard Walter; as well as Peter Desberg, Professor, California State University Dominguez Hills and Jeffrey Davis, Screenwriting Department Chair and associate professor of film and TV writing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, co-authors of SHOW ME THE FUNNY!: At the Writers’ Table with Hollywood’s Top Comedy Writers.

Cabrera earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication studies from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. She began her own journey in learning the craft of screenwriting by attending classes at the Atlanta Film Festival (then called IMAGE Film & Video Center).

 

Creating a Proper Film Resume - Saturday, December 3

2 Hour Class – Limit 25 Students 11:15a - 1:15p Register Now

1:30p – 3:30p Register Now

$30 for ATL Film 365 and GPP Members / $40 for non-members

Wonder why you send in your resume but don’t get a call? Learn how to craft a film resume, whether you have experience or not. Learn how to translate your experience into related film experience. Learn where to gain experience, how build your resume, trade favors and network. See if you have what it takes to get a job in the film business. BRING your CURRENT RESUME to WORKSHOP in the class.

Instructor: Linda Burns – Producer, Line Producer, and Production Manager for Commercials, Television, and Features

LOCATION: Hollis Gillespie’s Shocking Real Life Workshop Space

327 Nelson Street Storefront Suite #313 Atlanta, GA 30313 FREE STREET AND DECK PARKING

"Producing The Independent Film: An Insider’s Perspective" with J. Todd Harris - Oct. 30, 2011

"The Indie Producing Seminar is great! Todd maps out the road to producing an independent film drawing from his own experience producing over thirty features. A concise primer on indie production and more than a little entertaining" -Paul Yeuell, Screenwriter, Script Coordinator DAMAGES (Sony Pictures Entertainment, DirectTV)

"When Todd speaks you know it's coming from the trenches. He's the anti-thesis of the theory--everything he says is because he's done it and believes in it. Funny as hell, too." -Brent Roske, Emmy nominated director ('African Chelsea')

“Producing The Independent Film: An Insider’s Perspective” with J. Todd Harris

The Georgia Production Partnership and Atlanta Film Festival 365 is pleased to present a one- day seminar “Producing The Independent Film: An Insider’s Perspective”, taught by veteran Hollywood independent producer J. Todd Harris, CEO of Branded Pictures Entertainment and producer of 38 films, including five official Sundance Film Festival entries, plus the Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT. The seminar will be staged at SCAD Atlanta on Sunday, October 30 from 10am-4pm.

The in-depth class offers aspiring producers (and interested writers, directors and actors) a 6- hour practical seminar on producing the independent film in 2011 and beyond. Mr. Harris will take attendees through the steps of making a picture: selecting material, developing the screenplay, assembling the creative team, approaching talent, creating a business plan, raising financing, pre-production, production, post-production, marketing and distribution. He will also discuss strategies and realities for producing a film outside Hollywood.

Mr. Harris executive produced THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, produced the critically acclaimed Sundance entry BOTTLE SHOCK, THE FAMILY TREE, MISS NOBODY and the recently wrapped CROOKED ARROWS. Mr. Harris, who teaches producing at the Los Angeles Film School, earned his BA and MBA from Stanford and is 12-year member of the Motion Picture Academy, Producers Branch.

Those interested are encouraged to prepare by putting together a 60-second pitch of a movie project, watching one of Mr. Harris’ recent features, particularly BOTTLE SHOCK or MISS NOBODY (available on Netflix), by visiting www.crookedarrows.com, the FB page for CROOKED ARROWS, or Mr. Harris’ website www.brandedpicturesentertainment.com. For more information, please see registration information below.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Date:  Sunday, October 30, 10AM-4PM

Location:

Please note that there has been a change in the seminar location on the SCAD Atlanta campus.  The Sunday, October 30, 10A-4P program will now be held in the 2nd Floor Auditorium at 1611 West Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309.  That is the old Channel 11 studios behind WSB.  Google it, as it is an extension off West Peachtree at the bend in Peachtree Street and Beverly.  Parking is still free!

Cost:

Advance Registration: $100, $50 Faculty, $25 Student Day of Registration: $125, $75 Faculty, $50 Student

FREE Parking and Refreshments Included

General Registration - $100

Faculty Registration* - $50 (Must present a current, valid University, College or High School Faculty I.D. at the door.)

Student Registration* - $25 (Must present a current, valid Student I.D. at the door.)

Producing in the Cloud - October 11, 2011

DISCOVER THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND SOFTWARE TOOLS THAT AREDRAMATICALLY STREAMLINING PRODUCTION WORKFLOW

PRODUCING IN THE CLOUD

Oct 11, 2011

1:30 PM Registration 2:00 PM-5:00 PM Session

SCAD Atlanta-4C Events Space 1600 Peachtree Street NW Atlanta, GA 30309-2403

Come to this FREE interactive afternoon to learn how to stay ahead of technology and become more productive. "Producing In The Cloud" is designed for new and experienced film, TV, digital and commercial producers who want to stay ahead of technology, become more productive, and ultimately more profitable.

Learn how Showbiz Scheduling, Showbiz Budgeting, FrameForge3D, Quick Film Budget, CreditScout, and other software tools -all which are local computer based programs-integrate with the Scenios cloud-based platform. For more information, visit us online.

Register today!

Session 1: Cloud-Based Production Management. (60 min)

“Cloud computing" technologies will have a profound impact on the way films and TV shows are produced. So, what is the cloud? How is it poised to transform your production and post-production process? What are the risks connected to the cloud and how can you protect yourself when using a cloud-based production management platform? During this session, Scenios CEO Mark Davis will give an overview of cloud-based production technologies being used today, and will present a case study of how legendary TV program Inside the Actors Studio re-imagined its production process by moving into the cloud. This session features practical how-to tips and a demonstration of Scenios’ critically acclaimed “virtual production office,” which allows you to collaborate on things like your script, shoot schedule and budget – and even upload rough cuts and final productions into the cloud.

Session 2: Integrating The Right Tools. (90 min)

You will also learn how to integrate the industry’s leading software tools with this technology to create a virtual production office, a central location to store all production information and processes including scripts, budgets, schedules, and timecards.

This session will include software reviews of Movie Magic Screenwriter, FrameForge3D, Showbiz Scheduling, Showbiz Budgeting, CreditScout, and Quick Film Budget—all which are local computer based programs that integrate with the Scenios cloud-based platform.

Session 3: Heading For The Clouds (30 min) Our presenters will summarize the technologies that are available now, and preview some new tools that are on the horizon.

Sponsored by: Media Services, Showbiz Software, Scenios, FrameForge3D, Quick Film Budget

Industry Partners: SCAD Atlanta, AICP Southeast, Georgia Production Partnership, Atlanta Film Festival 365

Filmmaking Basics, A Workshop For Newbies - October 22, 2011

Saturday - October 22nd10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Filmmaking Basics A Workshop For Newbies presented by Lorna Wilson and Atlanta Film Festival 365

$79 Atlanta Film Festival Members $99 General Public

Interested in filmmaking but don’t have a clue…

Whether you’d like to dive into the industry or just want to test the waters, this introductory course is designed just for you. The workshop will give an overview of everything it takes to complete a film or video (there is a difference), and offer you direction for next steps to take. You’ll go away with a better understanding of what this “mystery” business is all about. The information covered will help you decide whether you want to learn more and pursue a career in the industry, or just talk the talk to impress your family and friends!

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR…

Lorna Wilson has over 16 years of experience in film and video production encompassing work in corporate and commercial production, public access television, independent and mainstream film production. She’s been a production assistant, production coordinator, associate producer, film festival manager, college instructor, and is presently employed as the Director of Operations for Rainforest Films.

Ms. Wilson has also been very active in the local film community supporting events, initiatives and organizations, including service on the board of Women in Film/Atlanta for 6 years.

Location:

Hollis Gillespie's Shocking Real Life Workshop Space 327 Nelson St. Storefront Suite #313 Atlanta, GA 30313

Free street and deck parking

General and Discounted Member Registration

For more info visit: https://sites.google.com/site/lwfilmworkshop

Become a Member of Atlanta Film Festival 365 today to receive workshop discounts, tickets and passes to the Atlanta Film Festival and invitations to advanced screenings.