UPFI January 2009 Workshop Schedule

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UP FILM INSTITUTE
MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOPS 2009

Documentary Video Production

Facilitator: Mr. Milo Paz
Course Fee: P 7,000 (total of 35 hours of training)
Dates: Saturdays of January 2009
Time: 9am-5pm

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.

Black and White Photography

Facilitator: Prof. Anne Marie de Guzman
Schedule: January 2009 (please call for dates)
Musical Scoring
Facilitator: Ms. Cynthia Alexander
Course Fee: P 7,000
Schedule: January 2009

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.

Enrollees will be accepted until two days prior the first day of workshop. Registration forms can be downloaded from the UPFI Multiply website: http://upfilminstitute.multiply. com or can be requested from upfi_workshops@yahoo.com.ph.

An initial fee of P500 is required to reserve a slot (This fee is non-refundable and will deducted from the total course fee thereafter).

Payments (initial or full) can be sent to the UP CMC Foundation, Inc. Account No. 00-275-830-109- 8, PNB UP Campus Branch.

Course schedules are subject to change without immediate notice. Please verify latest schedules by calling 925 02 86 and look for Mich.

University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/Internationa l Association of Film and Television Schools)

For workshop inquiries:
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
E-mail: upfi_workshops@yahoo.com.ph
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9263640/9262722 (Telefax)
Website: http://www.upd.edu.ph/~film_institute/workshop.htm