SYLLABUS FOR 2024
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5th April Different Aspects of Editing a Film Series: Topic One Titles: Examples from Films plus creating titles in Da Vinci and other programs. Discussion what makes good titles and how to match the title with the content of the film. Including Tech Talk. 19th April Film Rumble 3rd May Back to Basics Series: For beginners and reminding the experienced what should be in a good film. Lighting: What and when to use, how to improvise. 17th May Different Aspects of Editing a Film Series: Introduction to a film. How to set the scene for fiction / documentary. Use of drone shots in scene setting. Script which introduces the characters, etc. 29th May 5th Wednesday Presentation to Senior Citizens 31st May Fifth Friday of the Month Social Night: TBA 7th June 4th Quarterly Film Competition Cars used in films: An investigation 21st June Ladies Night 5th July Movie of the Year Awards Guest Speaker TBA 19th July AGM Presentation of Family History Films Joe’s Editing Project: Bring your USB to get the Footage. 31st July 5th Wednesday Presentation to Senior Citizens 2nd August Back to Basics Series: For beginners and reminding the experienced what should be in a good film. Investigating Audio types of microphones when to use, new technology. 16th August Different Aspects of Editing a Film Series: Transitions. What transitions are available. When to use various types of transitions. What the language of transitions means. Examples and Tech Talk Presentation of our efforts of Joe’s Editing Project 30th August Fifth Friday of the Month Social Night: TBA 6th September 1st Quarterly Film Competition Around the world: Travel films how to make them interesting (Assignment) 20th September Different Aspects of Editing a Film Series: Colouring What to look for in adjusting the colours. The importance of getting good skin colours.) How to use the Scopes when colouring film. Changing colours in certain parts of a film. Examples and Tech Talk 4th October Best of Shorts Night/ Director profile 18th October Different Aspects of Editing a Film Series: AddingFoley Putting together a foley collection that we could share. Collecting background sounds that we could share in one collection. Tech Talk and examples 30th October 5th Wednesday Presentation to Senior Citizens 1st November Open Night/ Film Festival Presentation of Travel Films 15th November Different Aspects of Editing a Film Series: Music Adding music. We need to look at this again. What are the best sources of royalty free music. Finding music that fits the subject. Again, looking at a series of short films and evaluating their music would be good. Indicating where we think they got it right and wrong. It might be good to get that person who has composed music for some of the members' films to come and talk about how he goes about composing and what software he uses. Musescope? 29th November Fifth Friday of the Month Social Night: TBA 6th December 2nd Quarterly Competition /Christmas Dinner |
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