Today Mr. Kulikowski and I started our new elective season of “Movie Making”. What’s special about the 3rd quarter version of the movie making elective? Aside from getting access to two very unique “executive producers” (that would be Mr. K and me) you’ll be able to take an idea for a film and then turn it into reality that you can share with the world. If you’re seriously adventurous, then we hope that you’ll submit your movie to the S2F2 Student Film Festival, which is a collaboration between the major international schools in Shanghai. I know you have the talent – now we just have to have the vision, the discipline, and the collaboration that we need to have so that we can produce some fine films together.
Today we started by looking at the S2F2 website. We looked at the categories and rules, and it’s important to note that some of the rules of the festival have changed this year. One noteworthy change is that the competition now demands more originality, and that may force you to step outside of your comfort zone a little. Never fear, we’re going to learn how to score/compose our own music in GarageBand, but before we even get to the technical side of movie making we need to focus squarely on developing good ideas!
The example that I gave you today of screenwriting was prepared in an online software tool, Adobe Story, but you can use any Word Processor to start getting your ideas and script together. Remember, the main genres for the student film festival are:
Documentary – up to 4 minutes
Narrative – up to 4 minutes
Video Art (including music videos) – up to 4 minutes
P.S.A. (Public Service Announcements) – 45 seconds
We’re looking forward to seeing you all again on Monday afternoon, when we’ll start to ‘workshop’ the ideas that you might have worked on over the weekend, and we’ll start to look at your production teams and the next steps that we need to take so we can make some winning movies!
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