Workshop Description:

Participants will be introduced to the four stages of making a short film. Participants will learn how to make a short film (plan, shoot, edit and produce).

The four-week course aims to hold an interactive, practical film industry.

The course will be hands-on experience where participants will participate in a learning how to craft and produce a short fictional film. During the course there will be a hands-on exercise to help participants create their own film.

Students will be guided and advised through the process by the instructor.

Key Takeaways:

• Week 1 Story – how to create a short story.

• Week 2 Preproduction – the tools involved in preproduction (storyboard, meetings, auditions).

• Week 3 Production – lights, camera, action with utilising locations, equipment, crew and crafting the visual story.

• Week 4 Postproduction & Marketing (film festivals, social media, and promotion) – editing a film, adding music and the final changes. Plus, how to market your film for the festival circuit, premiere events, and online environment.

• Week 5 - Premiere red-carpet event.

Activity:

• Attendees will complete a creative brainstorming and writing activity.

• Attendees will create a storyboard.

• Attendees will shoot a scene of a film.

• Attendees will create a plan to market their film.

• Participants will work in groups of four or five to plan, shoot, edit and publish a short film.

• All short films will be shot in Mandurah and have a sense of the Mandurah identity within their storylines.

• Students will be guided and advised through the process by the instructor.

• Each lesson will have content delivered to participants, followed by hands on activities to help the students create their films.

Length of course:

• Five weeks (four lessons followed by a premiere screening in the fifth week).