BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY (UPFI MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP 2007)

Facilitator; Vivian Limpin
Date; May 5, 12, 19, 26, & June 2 (Sat)
Time; 10:00 am to 6 pm
Fee: P6,000 (inclusive of light snacks, handouts, use of equipment, UPFI workshop kits, and certificates.)

Black & White Photography is a workshop that introduces students to the basics of photography. Its aim is to give participants a background on the principles and aesthetics of photography, including camera control, framing & composition, developing & darkroom printing, and more. B&W photography is foundational to the technical and creative aspects of filmmaking and other visual media

For workshop queries:
Email: upfi_workshops@yahoo.com.ph
Call: 9263640/9262722 (Telefax)
Visit: http://www.upd.edu.ph/~film_institute/

Intermediate Scriptwriting (UPFI MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP 2007)

Intermediate Scriptwriting ( 5 days / 25 hours)
Facilitator: Libay Linsangan Cantor
Dates : May 15, 17, 20, 22, 24,27 (Tue, Thurs, Sun)
Time : 1 – 6pm
Fee: P6,000, inclusive of light snacks, handouts, printing / photocopying services for writing exercises, and certificate.

For workshop queries:
Email: upfi_workshops@yahoo.com.ph
Call: 9263640/9262722 (Telefax)
Visit: http://www.upd.edu.ph/~film_institute/

BASIC SCRIPTWRITING (UPFI MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP 2007)

Facilitator; Libay Cantor
Dates; May 5, 12, 19, 26, & June 2 (Sat)
Time; 1 – 6pm. Venue CMC 107 A or Cine Adarna Conference Room 2nd Floor
Fee: P6,000 (inclusive of light snacks, handouts, printing / photocopying
services for writing exercises, UPFI workshop kits, and certificates).

Basic Scriptwriting: Visualizing from Scratch is a workshop intended for the absolute beginner, who has no background whatsoever in film, writing, media or the arts, but who wants to discover the possibilities of scriptwriting. It introduces participants to the “real basics” of writing for film, from the “translation” of written abstract concepts into visual-moving images (and vice versa – translation of perceived cinematic images into the written word), to a hands-on discovery of the essential concepts and components of a script that works.

For workshop queries:
Email: upfi_workshops@yahoo.com.ph
Call: 9263640/9262722 (Telefax)
Visit: http://www.upd.edu.ph/~film_institute/

WRITING ABOUT FILMS II (UPFI MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP 2007)

Film Theory and Criticism: Facilitator; Mr. Patrick Campos
Date May 14,16,18,21,23,25 (MWF)
Time; 1:00-5:00, Venue: Videotheque
Fee: P5,000. (inclusive of light snacks, handouts, use of equipment, UPFI workshop kits, and certificates.)

*Participants who register in Writing About Film I and II can avail of a 20% discount.

Writing About Film II: Theory and Criticism is a workshop that seeks to introduce participants to key classical and contemporary film theories and to prepare them to write informed and scholarly film criticism. Its aim is to survey philosophies of aesthetics as they can be related to film (e.g., Greco-Roman, Hebrew, Asian); early theories that sought to define the essence of film as art form (e.g., theories by Eisenstein, Arnheim, Bazin); and contemporary theories that deal with film as cultural-political-economic apparatus (e.g., structuralism, deconstructionism, postcolonialism).

For workshop queries:
Email: upfi_workshops@yahoo.com.ph
Call: 9263640/9262722 (Telefax)
Visit: http://www.upd.edu.ph/~film_institute/

WRITING ABOUT FILMS I (UPFI MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP 2007)

AudioVisual Analysis: Facilitator; Mr. Patrick Campos
Dates: April 30, May 2,4,7,9, 11 (MWF)
Time; 1:00-5:00 pm. Venue: Videotheque
Fee: P5,000. (inclusive of light snacks, handouts, use of equipment, UPFI workshop kits, and certificates.)

*Participants who register in Writing About Film I and II can avail of a 20% discount.

Writing About Film I: Audiovisual Analysis is a workshop that seeks to introduce participants to the aesthetics of film and to prepare them to analytically interact with any given film text. Its aim is to survey the fundamental formal aspects of film, which constitute it as an art form. Furthermore, it seeks to introduce participants to the basic narrative, technical, and stylistic qualities and conventions of cinema, all considered within specific historical, cultural, and sociopolitical contexts.

For workshop queries:
Email: upfi_workshops@yahoo.com.ph
Call: 9263640/9262722 (Telefax)
Visit: http://www.upd.edu.ph/~film_institute/

BASIC- DIGI FILMMAKING (with editing) (UPFI MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP 2007)

Facilitator; Mr. Ramon Bautista
Dates: April 30 to May 5 (Mon.- Sat.)- (Next Batches TBA)
Time; 10:00 am to 6 pm Venue: POST FACILITY
Fee: P8,000. (inclusive of light snacks, handouts, use of equipment, UPFI workshop kits, and certificates.)

Basic Digi-Filmmaking is a workshop designed to introduce participants to film production conventions and techniques, and to provide hands-on filmmaking experience, leading to a final audiovisual output. Lectures and drills center on the various phases of film production, with emphasis on production proper and basic post-production.

For workshop queries:
Email: upfi_workshops@yahoo.com.ph
Call: 9263640/9262722 (Telefax)
Visit: http://www.upd.edu.ph/~film_institute/

ADVANCED SCRIPTWRITING (UPFI MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP 2007)

ADVANCED SCRIPTWRITING:
Facilitator: Armando `Bing’ Lao
Dates; April 28-29 to June 16-17 (Sat/Sun)
Time 1:00-6:00 pm Venue: CMC A-107-A
Fee: P 6,500 (inclusive of light snacks, handouts, use of equipment, UPFI workshop kits, and certificates.)
Requirement: Participants should have a finished full-length narrative script or a teleplay.

Advanced Scriptwriting is a workshop and clinic for the experienced screenwriter and teleplay writer, who want to go beyond the tricks of the writing trade. This workshop is designed to equip experienced writers with advanced principles and concepts – such as time modes, blocking designs, rhetorical devices, perceptual mechanisms, and other conceptual frameworks – to help further hone their skills and deepen their understanding of film narratives.

Ms. Potter Movie Review

april122007_mspotter.jpgBeatrix Potter in this movie, is an artist and a 32 year old woman forced to bear with the whims of a social climbing mother and a society that has yet to recognize the value of women in, well, any role other than that of the traditional, which in the 1800s was fairly limited. You were expected to remain loyal to your parent’s every whim, you are not allowed to be alone with a man without an escort, higher education was optional and basically you just hung around waiting for someone suitable (in your parent’s eyes) to court you, marry him, have his children and mold your daughters to do same.

That’s pretty much it. A boring, staid and predictable life.

Which can also be said for for how this movie could have turned out. First of all all those first scenes where she starts talking to her drawings could have been interpreted as her going cuckoo. I’m not sure if the director meant that, but there it is. I thought, at the start of the movie, that we were going to deal with a woman who was slightly nuts, and I was worried I’d have to sit through an hour and a half of that.

I’m glad it didn’t.

That’s right. I reviewed Ms. Potter. Now I know most of you didn’t watch it, so read my review. Come on come on click click.

Ms. Potter

april122007_mspotter.jpgBeatrix Potter in this movie, is an artist and a 32 year old woman forced to bear with the whims of a social climbing mother and a society that has yet to recognize the value of women in, well, any role other than that of the traditional, which in the 1800s was fairly limited. You were expected to remain loyal to your parent’s every whim, you are not allowed to be alone with a man without an escort, higher education was optional and basically you just hung around waiting for someone suitable (in your parent’s eyes) to court you, marry him, have his children and mold your daughters to do same.

That’s pretty much it. A boring, staid and predictable life.

Which can also be said for for how this movie could have turned out. First of all all those first scenes where she starts talking to her drawings could have been interpreted as her going cuckoo. I’m not sure if the director meant that, but there it is. I thought, at the start of the movie, that we were going to deal with a woman who was slightly nuts, and I was worried I’d have to sit through an hour and a half of that.

I’m glad it didn’t.

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