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Filmbase has been at the forefront of film/video training in Ireland for the past 24 years, providing professional instruction for experienced and upcoming filmmakers. This year, Filmbase has continued to expand the organisation's training remit by developing new courses in a range of disciplines.
See below for the new courses on offer in 2010.
Shoot to Edit
3 Days: Wednesday - Friday
Aimed primarily at shooting and editing interviews and documentary. Once finished this course you will have the confidence and basic skills to shoot and then edit it into a sequence on Final Cut Pro – the basic tools of filmmaking.
Perfect For: Journalists, people working in PR, anyone who wants to put short video clips together for their website or youtube.
Cost: €350 waged / €300 unwaged
Deposit: €100
Times: 10.30 - 5.30
Dates: 15th - 17th September
Visual Storytelling: The Director's Craft
1 weekend
This is a one-weekend course in the basic elements of the craft of great directing. Going from preparation to shooting styles, casting and postproduction, this primer will cover the key areas every aspiring director should know.
Tutor: Sonya Gildea
Cost: €200 waged/€180 unwaged
Deposit: €100
Dates: 18th & 19th September
Film Appreciation
8 Tuesday evenings
Taught by Robert Furze of DCU, the course will cover a wide array of topics spanning the fascinating history of film. From Hitchcock to Eisenstein, from cinema's earliest days to the arrival of digital technology via New European cinema and the Horror film - the course is a must for anyone with a genuine desire to deepen their understanding of cinematic grammar.
MODULES:
- Early cinema and the importance of film history
- The birth of an art-form: editing and cinematography
- Stories: how Hollywood tells them
- Alternatives to the mainstream: indie cinema and the avant-garde
- Auteur Theory: a case study of Hitchcock
- Genre Theory: the modern Horror film from Night of the Living Dead to Let the Right One in
- New European cinema: the political and the social
- Into the Future: new technologies and digital cinema
SCREENINGS:
The Birth of a Nation; Modern Times; Battleship Potemkin; Vertigo; Citizen Kane; Duck Soup; Angels with Dirty Faces; Shadows; Nosferatu; Children of Men; The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers
Cost: €220 waged / €200 unwaged
Desposit: €100
Tutor: Robert Furze
Dates: 21st Sep - 9th Nov
BOOKING INFORMATION
Payment/Booking:
To book a place on any of these courses please contact Filmbase reception in person or call on 01 679 6716. Filmbase Reception opening hours 9.30am - 5.30pm, Monday to Friday.
VISA, MasterCard, Laser, company or personal cheque, cash (all in Euros) are all acceptable terms of payment.
Course Cancellation Policy:
If notice is received at least (i) 14 days in advance of the class, the Customer is entitled to a full refund, (ii) 7 days of the class, the customer is entitled to a full class credit which must be used within 3 months of the date of the original class to another class offered by Filmbase. Customer is not entitled to a refund or class credit if less than 7 day advance notice is given. Failure to provide notice at least 14 days in advance of the class obligates the Customer to pay the full price of the class.
Filmbase reserves the right to amend or cancel the date, time and location of a Training class including replacing the personnel who may be scheduled to deliver the Training. In the event a Training class is cancelled, the customer is entitled to a full refund. Filmbase shall not be responsible for any other loss incurred by Customer as a result of a cancellation or amendment.
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