Summer Film Production Intensive

SUMMER 2019

Films Production Intensive

• ·       Summer films production intensive is an opportunity for rising seniors to make a professional short film to submit as part of their college portfolio applications to some of the top film schools in the US. In addition the students can win cash prizes and awards by submitting their film to hundreds of Film Festivals from around the globe.
• ·       Students have an opportunity to pitch their films (in accordance with our attached guidelines) to a panel of film industry professionals.
• ·       Selected pitches may have an opportunity to get their work from script to screen.
• ·       If the writer has no on-camera directing and filmmaking experience, then the writer will pair up with an assigned experienced student filmmaker in order to produce the film.
• ·       Film positions students will learn include: Writer, Director, Producer, Assistant Director, Director of Photography, Assistant Camera, Audio Mixer, Boom Operator, Gaffer, Script Supervisor, Production Assistant, etc. In this intensive production, dedicated students will work dusk to dawn to create beautiful stories written and directed by their peers. PFS alumna have won several festival awards and been accepted into prestigious film schools like NYU, USC and the New School. There’s nothing like creating beneath the wings of the Pegasus.

DATES: June 6 - July 2, 3 to 4 days per week

TIME:. Hours will vary depending on the daily shooting schedule.

LOCATION: El Centro lab and various shooting locations.

Pick up Applications in room 204. For more information contact Ms. J njalilvand@dallasisd.org

 El Centro College Application due May 29th OPTIONAL

Hands-on experience, demonstrations and lectures, this course offers students the opportunity to learn techniques of HD video field pre-production, Production and post-production. Students work in a crew producing, directing, shooting and editing three diverse projects. The class is highly collaborative, student-centered and results driven. This is a college 4 credit hour course. (3 lec., 4 lab.)

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All student interested in learning more about filmmaking are welcome to see the pitch session Tuesday May 28 Room 204 @ 2PM - 3PM

The pitch session is on Tuesday May 28 @ 2PM - 3:30PM

Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, 2501 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201, Room 204

A film pitch is a concise verbal and visual presentation of an idea for a film by the potential filmmaker to a panel of studio executives in the hope of having the film professionally produced.

Pitching for your senior thesis film

Pitching a film to a panel of industry professionals can be intimidating, but we’ve made you this list to make it easier.

THE STORY - This is the most important part!

·       3 Act Story Structure - a weak structure makes a weak film

·       Your main character must have a transformational arc.  He/she is not the same person at the end that we met at the beginning.

·       Even documentaries and experimental films have stories - a beginning, middle, and end.

·       Make sure your screenplay has these 7 story points:

1. Exposition

2. Major Inciting Incident  for ACT I

3. Rising Action

4. Major Inciting Incident for ACT II

5. Climax

6. Falling Action ACT III

7. Resolution/Transformation

THE PITCH - Your pitch should include at least some of the following:

1. VERBAL LOGLINE - tease us, make us excited to see it!

·       Include a working title! (it can be changed later)

·       Show your leadership characteristics: be thoughtful, considerate, open to ideas, willing to learn.

·       Know your central/universal theme.

·       Be prepared to answer questions about your film in detail.

2. WRITTEN TEXT - the treatment and or script

         ● Your final film should be between 4 to 9 minutes long.
         ● On average, 1 to 1.5 pages per minute (more description than in a play)
         ● Describe the environment - visual backstories.
         ● Emotional states of characters - externalize through visual images, their temperament, their attire, their status, use objects as symbols for metaphors.
         ● Remember film is SHOW-not tell, so make it VISUAL.

3. VISUAL/AUDIO PRESENTATION - have at least one of the following

         ● Photographs of Characters, Locations- discuss or show your color palette and give example of films (not blockbusters) that demonstrate the type of look you want.
         ● Storyboard.
         ● Audio – song and or score.
         ● Voices of people reading your script.
         ● Anything else that adds more credentials to your presentation (PowerPoint, sketches, photos, etc.)

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