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Costa Botes' personal guide to the highs and lows of making documentaries in Aotearoa, and why you need a day job to do it properly.
Material that Costa will cover includes:
Selecting Material:
Why this story? Why now? Working within your means
Regional vs National vs International subjects
Character driven vs topic driven documentaries
Shooting:
The art of employing all the wonderful lies of cinema, yet still telling the truth.
Editing:
The shaping of story, enhancing chances of audience making the strongest possible emotional connection.
Previewing:
Using preview audiences to test and strengthen a story.
Marketing and Distribution:
The missing links to sustainability.
More about Costa
View the full Canterbury Industry Day timetable
Film-maker Rob Sarkies is to host an inspiring kick-start to 2010 with a series of weekend workshops aimed at short, 48hr or digi-feature filmmakers looking to move into features.
Three weekend workshops will be held over March/April in Auckland and Wellington.
The workshops will be hosted by Rob Sarkies, acclaimed director of Out of the Blue and Scarfies. Rob is a working NZ filmmaker and a proven speaker who has hosted many inspiring talks and short courses.
WORKSHOP 1: Honing Your Filmmaker Senses
WORKSHOP 2: Process! Process! Process!
WORKSHOP 3: Shaping Performance
SDGNZ is supporting this initiative and for more information visit the official website
DOC2DOC is an event for documentary filmmakers coordinated by SDGNZ.
We are currently planning our 2010 events.
Visit our blog to read about past events and email us us to join our mailing list.
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