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SWAMP FILM & VIDEO WORKSHOPS SWAMP's Film and Video workshops are designed as tools for the emerging and developing filmmaker who are ready to take their productions to the next level. These affordable classes are packed full of practical information to help you make the most of your film, video and multi-media projects. A pioneer in independent filmmaking since 1977, SWAMP has helped foster hundreds of talented filmmakers through our TexasPBS series THE TERRITORY, workshops, conferences, after-school classes, Media Literacy Institute and by offering fiscal sponsorship and grant opportunities to worthy projects. SWAMP's workshops are a vital part of our income as an organization. By attending our classes, you not only gain valuable knowledge and insight into the filmmaking process, but you also help SWAMP continue our mission - to promote the creation and appreciation of film, video, and new media as art forms of a multicultural community.
Thank you so much for "coordinating" the "program" last week at Rice. Kyle was great! I was impressed with the whole thing and look forward to attending more SWAMP programs. ~Karen Hale Having undertaken putting seminars and conferences together myself, I know firsthand what a daunting and stress filled exercise it is. You handled this past weekend in exemplary fashion, with no stone unturned to make it a very good experience. Thanks for all your effort. ~Danny Kamin We want to thank you for putting on such a well run and valuable event last weekend. Heidi and I found the speakers to be knowledgeable and relevant. Thanks for gathering a great group to inform us. We also thought you did a great job of organizing it all. SWAMP's such a useful organization. ~Bill & Heidi Hughes ENROLLMENT Refund policy: If you have pre-registered for a workshop and cannot attend, you have until the Thursday prior to the class to cancel to receive a full refund. If you cancel after that time, you will receive a credit in the amount of the workshop fee that can be applied towards a future class. We do not offer refunds or credits to individuals who do not show up for the class without prior notice of cancellation. 2010 WORKSHOPS Music and Sound For Film
PART 1: CHOOSING MUSIC & SOUND IN FILM Choosing music and sound for your film is a vital part of the storytelling process that often gets overlooked by the filmmakers. How your film sounds is as important as how it looks. This course is designed to teach filmmakers how to choose sound and music for their individual stories. Outline of presentation:
PART 2: PUTTING MUSIC INTO IN FILM One of the sound components that are incorporated into films at the end of the post production process is music. The music can be already existing licensed commercial music or music written specifically for the film. The main people / departments / functions involved with creating and/or acquiring film music are typically the music supervisor and composer. They in turn provide their products ultimately to the sound editor. This approximately 4 hour presentation will be a mixture of text slides, sound/music clips, video clips, and software demonstrations. The objectives of this presentation are to provide you with basic information and guidance (1) to help you understand the process and issues involving the placement of music in film, (2) to gain insight into the team of people who are responsible for acquiring and creating film music and some of the things they do, and (3) get an understanding music cues by analyzing various types and genres. Outline of the presentation:
You DO NOT have to know anything about how to create / compose music and sound effects (which is outside the scope of this presentation). You will rely on your personal and professional experience in listening to music both inside and outside visual media. Audience: This presentation is designed for anyone involved in the decision making process of coordinating / choosing / reviewing pre-existing or commissioned music including but not limited to independent filmmakers, directors, music supervisors, and producers. About the presenters: Joel Irwin is a composer, songwriter, arranger, orchestrator and award winning music producer. He has won the “Listen And Exchange” worldwide music producer competition (www.listenandexchange.com) SIX years in a row. Joel’s music styles include pop, country, r&b, folk, classical, Christmas, and film/TV. Joel has also created music as diverse as a polka and a tango. He composes mainly for acoustic groups as small as one and as large as full orchestra. He works include both instrumental as well as vocal music (solo & duets), both live scores and electronic versions. His style and identity comes from creating recognizable works which have ‘hummable’ melodies (music you will remember if you hear it again). Joel has written music for three independent films, one private film and has scored music used with a live narrator on a men’s retreat weekend (www.mkp.org). Joel’s music can be heard in many of the popular locations such as www.facebook.com/joelirwin, www.reverbnation.com/joelirwin, www.myspace.com/joelirwin, and www.icompositions.com/artists/JoelIrwin. Performances of Joel’s works can be found at www.youtube.com/joelirwin. Joel also writes original music and charts of existing music for a jazz/big band (www.texasjazzcentral.com) and is a professional videographer for live performance and weddings (www.nofrillsvideo.com). Joel is a member of ASCAP, Society Of Composers, the Society of Composers & Lyricists (Screen Composers Association), The Recording Academy (Grammys), Women In Film And Television (WIFT), and Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP). Scott Szabo is the composer for two nationally syndicated TV series; “Judge Alex” (2004-Present) and Texas Justice” (2001-2004); both on FOX. He also produced and arranged the music for “Divorce Court” (2008-Present). In 2009 Scott won a Telly award for music for the short film Saving Evan White. Also, in 2005, he won the Gold Medal for his music score of the feature film “Dancing in Twilight” at the Park City Film Music Festival. Over the past 22 years, Scott has built a solid career as an accomplished and award-winning music composer for film, television and multimedia. With a broad approach to music, from world music to electronic to symphonic orchestra, he has spent years polishing and developing his style. The musical impulse began early in Scott. Born in Austin Texas, he wrote his first song when he was twelve and began performing in rock bands at fifteen. The next year found him accepted into the prestigious High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA) in Houston. However, Szabo was accepted to HSPVA on the basis of his talents in the visual arts. “Of course I took music theory and piano courses,” Szabo says, “but it was art school that taught me to think conceptually and emotionally about a composition, be it on a canvas or a keyboard. I learned there are multiple ways to solve a problem and how to refine a raw idea. This really helps me as a music composer.” The 1980s and early 1990s saw Scott performing live as a singer and keyboardist through out Texas and the Southwest in bands that he put together while developing his own musical style and technique. Always writing and releasing his original songs, this culminated in Scott being signed to the indie label Fires of August. In 1988 Scott was asked to compose the music for a series of internationally distributed videos for Dow Chemical. Since then, Scott has composed the music for numerous feature films and TV series, as well as many award-winning short films. Additionally, Scott has placed original songs in five feature films and has also written music for over 200 commercials and marketing videos for such diverse clients as Applebee’s, Continental Airlines, Enron, Joe’s Crab Shack, Shell Oil, and Time Warner. To register for MUSIC AND SOUND FOR FILM, please choose one of the payment options below or call us at 713-522-8592 x 2.
Some of the most highly trained technicians on a film set are the Grips. Good ones make the demanding, challenging, fast paced and complicated engineering that they perform to shape shadows and light look easy. They rig cameras on cars, and hang lights for the electricians in mid-air. They build building size tents that allow for the filming of a night time scene in the middle of the day, and they provide the physical camera movement that adds production value to a scene. Day one will start with a few basic but necessary knots, and how to properly set a C-stand and end with the complexities of rigging a car mount. Day two will put into practice the practical skills covered in day one with the filming of several interior and exterior scenes that use all of the equipment covered on day one. The climax of which will be a low angle tire screeching camera shot on a car mount. Day two's set-up will be filmed and viewed at the end of the class. Some of the equipment that will be covered is:
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