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Screenworks Xmas Party - 6pm, 10 December
Screenworks invites screen practitioners and Screenworks associates,
funders, sponsors and supporters to come to our Xmas party. Help us
celebrate a year of creativity and success. Please rsvp on 6680 9220 or
info@screenworks.com.au by 7 December.
Creating TV for the Market Byron Bay with Valerie Hardy and Jen Cornish - 10am to 12.30pm, Friday 3 December
Between them Valerie and Jen have extensive television experience.
Valerie has experience as a senior executive for a broadcaster, Jen as
the principal of a large documentary distribution company. Find out
what is happening currently and how best to tap into that the
television market.Clinic from 1.30- 4.30pm. For all seminars and clinic
appointments (one on one meeting sessions) contact Screenworks on 6680
9220 or info@screenworks.com.au
Web Futures - 10am to 1pm, 10 December
Where are the future business opportunities and trends? Join Mitra
Ardron, who started the England’s fourth ISP, GreeNet, in 1985 and
contributed to the early development of WWW technology including http.
Mitra has just returned from visiting the US where he was researching
opportunities. Of interest is the future of RSS - the syndicating and
sharing of content, which will fundamentally change the way to attract
people to web sites. The most obvious place this shows up is blogs, the
self-publishing web phenomena - almost all blogs have RSS feeds. The
big question is - where does this leave multimedia professionals, when
there is less need for flashy graphics, and more need for meaningful
content?
Karey Patterson,
Director of Ntechmedia, winners of the 2004 Busines Award for
Leadership in Innovation and Technology, is a pioneer of RFID, wireless
and handheld application development and will explore the future
applications for this technology.
Glen Schaefer
will present a case study of a streaming prototype – Channel Byron –
working with Screenworks and the Byron Film Co-Operative to provide an
online service to promote, distribute and broadcast locally produced
content. In his session Glen will discuss potential business and
technology models for content delivery using the internet. Glen is an
experienced IT consultant who has worked in the Australian IT industry
for the last 17 years.
Following
the papers, Kerry Sunderland of Evolve Media, will open the discussion
up to the participants, to explore opportunities for businesses in the
Northern Rivers region. Please rsvp on 6680 9220 or info@screenworks.com.au
ScreenWorks MediaWorks
Fifteen practitioners are experiencing an intensive three-day workshop
underway at the Byron Community Centre. Presented by Marcus Gillezeau,
the workshop is being attended by Cynthia Connop, Moshe Berstein, Jon
Noble, Neline Hayes, Bruce Grant, Belinda Roberts, Grant McGifford,
Mark Purser, Andy Bambach, Daniel Prokop, Dean Jefferys, Shane Garrett,
Mark Richards, Deb McBride, Liliana Munoz and Jen Lusk. This program
was supported by the AFC, FTO, DSRD’s Travelling Exports Program.
Austrade Export Market Development Review - 2-4pm, December 8
Austrade provides financial assistance under the Export Market
Development Grants (EMDG) scheme for Australian businesses involved in
export. A number of producers in the region have attracted this funding
in the past. This program is currently under review. Mr Jollie from
Austrade’s review team will meet with producers who have received
assistance in the past. The meeting will be held at the Screenworks
offices.
Producer Incubator
Congratulations to Jen Lusk, Cynthia Connop, Noeline Hayes and Liliana
Munoz who are the recipients of the Screenwork’s Producer Incubator
program. Over the next month they will be connected with senior
industry mentors to assist with the development of their projects over
the next few months. This program has been supported by the AFC and
Beach Hotel.
Screenwork’s ZOOM – February 2005
Zoom is a six-week script intensive for writers, directors, and
producers. What makes a script work or not work - or partly work?
Structure, theme, controlling idea, characterisation, dialogue - ZOOM
explores the ellusive x factors of successful screen story telling via
in depth discussion sessions focused not only on the scripts but also
on their realisation on the screen.
As
Deb Cox, writer of SEACHANGE says: 'My years at the AFC - where I was
exposed to so many scripts, both of good and bad quality - was the best
scriptwriting course I could have done. You gain a privileged insight
into the preoccupations of a vast number of writers, you become more
open to the great range of story-telling possibilities and you become
better able to define what it is – beyond issues of "mainstream" or
"alternative" - that makes a satisfying screenplay.'
The
16 participants will be asked to read two core scripts per week over
the six week program, with one three hour discussion session scheduled
each week. After each discussion session, the participants will view
each completed film for a follow up critique in the first hour of the
following session - it is recommended that participants only view a
course film after the discussion session focused on that script.
ZOOM
will be convened in mid February 2005. A list of the scripts to be
critiqued will be made available on the Screenworks website before
Christmas.
ZOOM convenor Charlie de Salis has credits primarily as a writer and
director, but also as a producer, ranging across short films (including
selection for the Venice and Cannes film festivals), short features,
television plays, television documentaries, corporate productions, and
commercials. His feature film script MARY, JOE & JESUS DE LIVERS
was shortlisted for the NSW FTO’s 2004 Aurora workshop and is currently
in development via the Northern Rivers Screenworks Incubator scheme.
Charlie
has a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Education and lectures in
Corporate Production at the Centre for Film, Television and
Screen-Based Media at Bond University. He recently established a
Screenwriting for Film and Television course via the new TAFE Studio
initiative at Kingscliff TAFE College, where he also teaches video
production.
Expressions of interest to attend Screenwork’s Zoom to be forwarded to info@screenworks.com.au. Please outline why this program would be of value to your professional development.
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