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Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking - book the course
London 27/28 October, 2007, 9:30 - 6pm
£225 + VAT = £264.38
Few European filmmakers have more experience in shooting, producing and marketing micro and no-budget films than Raindance founder Elliot Grove.
Day One: Learn over 50 money saving filmmaking tips.
›› Pre-Production: getting organised for an efficient shoot
›› Budgets from £500 to £1,000,000 are discussed in detail
›› Proven lo-budget short cuts and faking a million pound budget
›› Using sound and music to enhance production values
›› Getting professional actors
›› The essentials of the art and craft of film directing
›› More than fifty lo-budget shooting tips
›› Avoiding the three big filmmaking mistakes
Day Two: Learn how to finance, market and sell your movie and how to turn your movie into this year's cult classic.
›› The movie game: presenting your first project to investors.
›› Distribution and marketing
›› Publicity: the essential ingredient to selling your film
›› PR kit: creating an effective package
›› Film buyers and film markets
›› Plotting the film festival route
›› Film financing: executing a strategy for a £50k-£3m budget
›› Honing a workable pitch for your film.
›› The distribution deal
Write and Sell the HOT Script - book the course
10/11 Nov, 2007, 9:30 - 6pm
£225 + VAT = £264.38
The quickest way into the film industry is with a HOT script. If you learn how to create a script that is bold, fresh, original and dynamic, the film industry will beat a path to your door.
Raindance founder Elliot Grove has been working with novice and professional writers at Raindance since 1992 and is considered the specialist at explaining story design (Day One) and the expert on marketing and selling your script (Day 2). He is also a professional writer, with eight scripts and a novel about to be published.
Day One: the Business of Screenwriting
›› Create interesting, memorable characters
›› Devise characters that grow in your script and outlive the movie
›› Conflict and tension in a story
›› Building great dialogue
›› The essential building blocks of a script
›› Story structure paradigms
›› Setting the social stage to develop dynamic stories
Day Two: The Screenwriting Process
›› Playing the Movie Game and winning as a screenwriter
›› Simple, logical and effective marketing
›› How professionals market scripts
›› Getting producers to read your script
›› How to get good coverage.
›› Query letters
›› The three ways scripts are bought and sold
›› How much money can you earn from the sale of your script
›› The Ten Thousand Monkeys Theory for writers explained
›› Getting an agent
›› Realistic career paths
Directing Performance - book the course
Saturday/Sunday 1/2 Dec, 2007 9:30 - 6:00 pm
Just £225 + VAT
Members save 15%
"Directing Performance" introduces directors to the acting process and demonstrates proven techniques to enable directors to promote strong performances.
By developing the inner and outer worlds of the characters through their relationships with their environment, other characters and themselves, a great story can be given further depth and will create a greater involvement for the audience.
Working with professional actors, Chris Thomas will demonstrate how the director can gain clues from the text, think creatively about casting and together with their cast, create rich characterisations and relationships no matter what the film is about.
Participants will gain insight into how actors prepare, explore ways to use rehearsal and direct actors during the shoot. The course will be illustrated through examples, demonstration and review of scenes shot during the class.
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