Perspective/s is/are key/s to finding new ways of understanding our world/s. Let your moving images make a difference: Take the time this October to fight boredom by cueing your brains, guts and hearts down and out!

BASIC DIGITAL CINEMATOGRAPHY WORKSHOP: MOVING LIGHT IN, MOVING LIGHT OUT

This workshop is intended for those who are very eager to capture moving things, people, events, space. The digital cinematographer takes care of the technical aspects of a shot and he/she works closely with the director of a production. Therefore, he/she must be wary of the intricacies of choice of lens, lighting materials and placement of other equipments. As opposed to cinematography using film (celluloid), Digital Cinematography has new characteristics that exhibited new aesthetics in the history of cinema. The portability and quickness of the digital cinematographic tools make digital filming more popular and more accessible. The workshop will be basic High-Definition (HI-DEF or HD) Digital Cinematography, which is inclusive of exercises, processes and applications using HD cameras and Introduction to Digital Color-Correction.

What makes a “good” (and “bad”) HD digital cinematography? Facilitator Louie Quirino will extend his knowledge and technique on this. He is the digital cinematographer for indie hits like Tulad ng Dati (2006), Hubad sa Ilalim ng Buwan, and Sa Ilalim ng Cogon. For the mainstream industry, he has done cinematography work for many films, among them Shake, Rattle and Roll 9, Shake, Rattle and Roll 2k5, Altar, My Kuya’s Wedding and Hide and Seek. He has won Gawad CCP para sa Alternatibong Pelikula.

Schedule: October 13-17 (10am-5pm)
Fee: P 12,000.00

DOCUMENTARY VIDEO PRODUCTION: CATCHING REALITY? FILM IT.

As contemporary documentary and feature filmmaking converge during these times, it is noteworthy to step back a bit and try to distinguish which is which: You saw something, felt it, even smelled it. You tried to frame it but you could not. Then you try to video it. No matter how the video portrays what you saw, you felt that it is not the same. Oh well.

Then that’s why we’re having a basic documentary video production workshop – to bridge the gap/s. In a world where moving images are more and more used every day: work, school, parties, gatherings just to “remember”, then why not “remember well”? In this workshop, the participants are asked to outlay their experiences through the form of a documentary.

Milo Alto-Paz will teach the rudiments of documentary video production. He is an award-winning filmmaker with fourteen years of experience directing and producing for television and film/video. His features, among them ImaheNasyon (2006) and Taxi ni Pilo (2001), have received several awards from Gawad CCP Para Sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video and the Moonrise Film Festival.

Schedule: October 20-24 (10am-5pm)
Fee: P 7,000.00

DIGITAL CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR MUSIC VIDEO: BEATING IMAGES

In a fast-paced world, where messages can just be as short as finishing a cup of instant noodles, we
turn the television on and see a music video. We hear the lyrics, get into the beat of the instruments, see
the band or the actors. Then we turn the TV off, slurp the last tablespoon of soup and get on with our life.

Then we see something beyond the music video: We see that we have those tiny little music videos in our
everyday lives too. Music videos have a unique form or means of distributing images and messages:
quick, short, easy-to-carry in our mental bags, with a beat – something that is different from a 15seconder
commercial, a 15-minute short film or a feature-length film.

Facilitator Dix Buhay will be teaching the peculiarities of digital cinematography for music video. He is the digital cinematographer for many of today's popular music videos, such as Wasak Na Wasak (Radio Active Sago Project), Oo (Up Dharma Down), Bandila and Inosente Lang ang Nagtataka (Rivermaya), Dear Kuya (Sugarfree), Ang Iyong Paalam (The Dawn), Eager Angels (Session Road), Back to Me (Cueshe), Konti Na Lang (Pedicab), Nilamon Ng Gabi (The Pin-Up Girls), Gabi Ng Prom (covermequick!), and many others. His other works also appear in alternative Philippine channels, like MTV ("The Ramon Bautista Show") and UNTV ("In the Raw").

Schedule: October 27-31 (10am-5pm)
Fee: P 10,000.00

The workshops are open to the public. To reserve yourself a slot and avail the discount, you may now dial the phone at 926 02 86 and talk to Divine or Randel. You may virtually make your presence clearer by sending your queries to upfi_workshops@yahoo.com.ph.You may also lurk at http://upfilminstitute.multiply.com

Scriptwriting workshops at the UP Film institute this October-November 2008!

BASIC and ADVANCED SCRIPTWRITING WORKSHOPS

Perspective/s is/are key/s to finding new ways of understanding our world/s. In a world of slashes and dashes, the pen (or the keyboard) is invincibly mightier than the sword. Take the time this October to fight boredom by writing your brains, guts and hearts down and out!

ADVANCED SCRIPTWRITING: CTRL+ALT+WRITE

Recreating the materials of the world/s into finer substances is the mode of this workshop: The students are expected to submit to and/or compete with conventions and attempt to come up with new voices by filling-in the spaces of the script (or perhaps by just letting it blank, untouched) and understand more of themselves through their written outputs. Meditation for more contemporary voices is necessary for producing those unforgettable one-liners, or filmic images and scenes that will be stuck in the minds of audiences for a very, very, very long time. For this course, participants are required to submit or talk about their past writings and must have understanding of dramaturgy and scene play.

The facilitator for this workshop is award-winning ecrivain Armando “Bing” Lao, who just recently received that Gawad Balagtas para sa Dula by UMPIL (Ugnayan ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas). He wrote the screenplays of contemporary classics like Minsan Pa (2004), La Vida Rosa (2001), Tuhog (2000), Pila-Balde (1999), Oras-Oras, Araw-Araw (1989), Itanong Mo sa Buwan (1988), and Takaw-Tukso (1986), to name just a few. He is also the screenplay supervisor of numerous films, including Kubrador (2006), Kaleldo (2006) and Bridal Shower (2004). He is also the script consultant for the 2008 Cinemalaya winner Jay. He also writes for TV.

Schedule: October 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26 (1-6pm)
Prerequisite: A feature-length screenplay or equivalent writing; Knowledge of dramaturgy, plot, character, scene play
Course fee: P8,000.00

BASIC SCRIPTWRITING: FROM ZERO TO HERO

Is writing a screenplay really that easy? Amidst the gazillions of new stories coming out every day, how can we find the right story? How can we box it to become the right cinematic experience? The blank page is set to be filled by the participants using the fundamental parameters of scriptwriting such as characterization, plotting and appropriate sequencing of ideas. Gear up by knowing your first line of defense: proper mental flow, basic structuring and placing the right images where and when you need it in your screenplay.

The basic concepts in screenplay will be facilitated by Libay Linsangan Cantor, is a faculty member of the UP Film Institute, teaching courses like Scriptwriting and Language and Grammar of Film. An experienced TV scriptwriter of children's educational shows, she has garnered local & international awards for her full-length screenplay, photography, and video productions, and has received a Palanca-award for her literary work. She also directs for TV.

Schedule: October 13, 16, 20, 23, 27 (1-5pm)
Course fee: P6,000.00

The workshops are open to the public. To reserve yourself a slot and avail the discount, you may now dial the phone at 926 02 86 and talk to Divine or Randel. You may virtually make your presence clearer by sending your queries to upfi_workshops@yahoo.com.ph.You may also lurk at http://upfilminstitute.multiply.com

Basic Digital Photography, Non-Linear Editing and Musical Scoring workshops
at the UP Film Institute this October-November 2008!

Perspective/s is/are key/s to finding new ways of understanding our world/s. Let your still frames and editing skills make a difference: Take the time this October to fight boredom by flickering your brains, guts and hearts down and out!

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP: CHASING FRAMES

With newer and newer technology coming into the scene, digital photography in the last decade has been becoming more and more available to students, hobbyists and professionals. This workshop is about the fundamentals of digital photography, from conceptualization to actual taking of photos to post-production. To maximize and experiment with the properties of the digital camera is to maximize and experiment with one’s own creativity. Depth of field, shutter speed, sensitivity and exposure will be some of the words going to be used in this workshop, as well as megapixels, CMOS and memory card capacity – several concepts that are unlikely to be discussed in photography using film (celluloid).

The facilitator is Gary Buenavista is currently a photographer for PULP Magazine, aside from having his works presented in other media.

Schedule: October 6-10 (10am-5pm)
Requirement: D-SLR camera
Fee: P 6,000.00

NON-LINEAR EDITING WORKSHOP: PATCHING, TYING, CROPPING

Editing has been one of the popularly misconceived or underrated skill and art of/for/in film-making. But without editing, most movies would become dull, inconsistent or illogical! Editing music, voice and visuals of a film as a part of post-production entails creativity and patience, that now it has been becoming a more favorable profession for more people who are in the business of crafting movies, television shows and commercials. In this workshop, the participants will be using the handy Adobe Premiere Pro© to handle raw footages and to perform editing through special effects and certain rendering techniques.

The facilitator for the workshop is Melissa Dela Merced, is an editor, videographer and writer. She attended the summer program of University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts in 2004. She is currently the head of Digital News Gathering section of broadcasting network ABS-CBN, where she also teaches editing for the company’s in-house specialists.

Schedule: October 13 – 17
Fee: P 7,500.00

MUSICAL SCORING*: WEAVING MUSIC IN/FOR FILM

When one gets carried away by a sequence in any film, it must have been also affected by the looming silence or crescendo of the movie soundtrack. The presence and absence of music in a video or film can be very crucial to one’s aesthetic remark on the over-all feel of the film. Musical scoring has been with movies after the era of the silent films and we have been introduced to the capacity of using music as the main source of inspiration or subject for the film itself. The music score is hand-in-hand with the sound design in order to have the ultimate aural experience of the movie. If you want to be a music scorer, this is the workshop for you!

The facilitator for the workshop is Cynthia Alexander. Her creative attributes range from writing and arranging tunes and lyrics to playing numerous indigenous and popular instruments. She was dubbed as one of the country’s guitarist with “alternate tunings”, and has been rocking with legends such as Mike Hanopol, Jun Lupito and her brother Joey Ayala (via the collective Ang Bagong Lumad).She garnered nominations and awards from groups such as NU-107 Rock Awards and Katha Music Awards, among others. She also paints and designs her album covers.

*Slated on last week of October or first week of November. Please phone for details and updates.
Fee: P 7,000.00

The workshops are open to the public. To reserve yourself a slot and avail the discount, you may now dial the phone at 926 02 86 and talk to Divine or Randel. You may virtually make your presence clearer by sending your queries to upfi_workshops@yahoo.com.ph.You may also lurk at http://upfilminstitute.multiply.com

Film Criticism and Film Curatorship workshops at the UP Film Institute this October-November 2008!

Perspective/s is/are key/s to finding new ways of understanding our world/s. Let your still frames make a difference: Take the time this October to fight boredom by writing your brains, guts and hearts down and out!

WRITING ABOUT FILM: FOR THE YOUNG

Perception and appreciation of films in this time and age are necessary for the proliferation of the cinematic culture and experience. More or less, if we are touched, annoyed or intrigued by any film, we spend more time thinking and talking about it than the time of having to view it. Writing about Film: For the young is a specialized course for the young and old who are interested in interpreting, critiquing films for audiences who are of the youth sector. “Youth+Film” is the concept, process and realization of this workshop as a critical response to the increasing number of films/videos that are made and produced for/by the youth.

Facilitator Patrick Campos is a film/literary scholar, and a faculty member of the UP Film Institute, teaching courses such as Philippine Cinema, Language and Grammar of Film, Film Genres, and Film Theory and Criticism. He is also an award-winning independent filmmaker, a freelance writer, and a musical scorer.

Schedule: October 27 – 31
Fee: P 5,000.00
This course is ideal for young writers (high school and college), but is also available for more mature applicants.

CURATING FILM AND VIDEO EVENTS*

A film can never be experienced as a film without being launched into the eyes of its prospective audience. The “filmic or cinematic experience” not only requires the production of the film, but also of its delivery and presentation to the viewing public. How does an institute prepare for a gala night? How do we manage and program films, group them into proper order so that the audience and the center (for movies) will both be at ease? What elements should we take into consideration when a specific kind of film screening would be requiring a different viewing approach? If you are keen in managing events for screenings, this is the course for you.

Nonoy Lauzon will facilitate CURATING FILM AND VIDEO EVENTS WORKSHOP. He is the resident Programmer of the University of the Philippines Film Institute and has been managing the institute’s movie programming for more than ten years. His critical eye for screening movies which graced the institute has been very well respected in the country’s film industry.

*Please call UPFI for schedule and rate for Curating Film and Video Events. This workshop is tentatively set on the last week of October or first week of November.

The workshops are open to the public. To reserve yourself a slot and avail the discount, you may now dial the phone at 926 02 86 and talk to Divine or Randel. You may virtually make your presence clearer by sending your queries to upfi_workshops@yahoo.com.ph.You may also lurk at http://upfilminstitute.multiply.com