SATURDAY, MAY 16TH
FIGHTING FOR CAMERA & ACTION FILM PRODUCITON 101
BancorpSouth Conference Center
363 East Main St. (behind the Hilton Garden Inn)
9:00 – 12 NOON
(Light Morning Refreshments Provided)
GET THE REDUCED RATE NOW!!
$25.00 – if registered before May 8th
After May 8th - $35.00
To register or for more information call 800-533-0611
Credit Cards Accepted
Fighting For Camera & Action Film Production 101, will be presented by A.C. Weary, producer/director of the Action Film Workshop (AFW) from New Jersey and Adam Bricker, a cinematographer from Los Angeles. A.C. has spent most of his career as a fight director. Credits for the AFW professional team include Batman, Stardust, Lord of the Rings and Troy. Film and TV fight choreography 
credits include Falling, What Waits Below, One Life to Live, All My Children, Another World, The Tom Arnold Show and Home Improvement. Additionally, Weary has acted in numerous Off Broadway, film and TV Productions, including The Wizard, Hill Street Blues, Tales from the Dark Side, Father Dowling and Nero Wolf.
Adam Bricker received his Bachelor of Arts in Cinema Production format from the University of California. In addition to shooting footage for the Action Film Workshops, he has been involved in the production of numerous music videos and films. Credits include The Van Pelt Family, Make Believe, Flying Elephants, Candy Bars and Stripes.
Fighting for Camera & Action Production 101
A Lecture Demo covering the principals and techniques of Action Film Making from the perspective of Directors, DP’s, Choreographers, Performers and Editors of low-budget productions. The Staging and shooting of fights and action sequences and executing Special Effects, Action Editing, After Effects, Green-Screen tricks and the “Dirty Dozen” of action film mistakes.
Chapters
· Don’t Do It! – Why cut action from the script?
· Creating 3-dimenstional excitement in a two dimensional medium.
· The contact line and how it alters choreography and shot selection
· What’s the right lens for the action we are creating?
· Raising excitement with POV and unexpected shots.
· “Necessity is the mother of invention” especially in film production
· Looking at your Post Production problems first.
· “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” and other mistakes.
· Safety, is it everything it’s cracked up to be?
Saturday, May 16th
9:00 - 12 noon
Tupelo Convention & Visitors Bureau – 399 East Main St.
Admission – Free
Refreshments provided
Grades 1-5
Limited 15 spaces
MovieMakers: Movie Animation Workshop for Kids
In this three hour workshop, kids ages 6 through 10 (grades 1 through 5) will explore movie making by creating and filming an animated short film. Kids will make up a story, design the sets, cast the actors, shoot the movie, add titles and credits. This is a hands-on workshop in which kids will learn about story telling, how to draw and construct sets and props, make simple puppets for actors and then record their story as a short film. Kids will work together and in small groups to create this animated film and gain experience in creative expression, team work, technical knowledge about filmmaking and have a great time. Each participant will receive a (mailed) copy of the completed film on DVD. Class is limited to 15 students, parents are welcome to assist. This workshop is brought to you as a community service by the Tupelo Film Commission/Tupelo Film Festival and is presented by Don Tingle, Workshop Directory for the Alabama Filmmakers Co-op.
DON TINGLE
Mr. Don Tingle is in his 5th year as the Workshop Director for the Alabama Filmmakers Co-op, a community service organization that was founded in 1977. He leads multiple workshops for the North Alabama community including a monthly Filmmakers Workshop for adults that focuses on technical aspects of amateur filmmaking, a summer day camp style Filmmaking Workshop for Kids now in its 5th year, workshops for a communtiy outreach program called "Girls Inc." Don has presented seminars and workshops with the Tupelo Film Festival, the George Lindsey UNA FIlm Festival, and for the Gadsden Public Library as well as for the Huntsville community. His popular "Basics of Short Film Production" is presented regularly to audiences eager to learn how to translate their story into a short film. Don has served as host and moderator for panel discussions and interviewed notable filmmakers including Indy Director John Sayles and Producer Maggie Renzi. For the past three years, he has organized the Huntsville based "Rocket City Short Film Festival," a showcacse for local and regionally produced short films. Don is returning to the Tupleo Film Festival for his thrid year and this time brings his film production expertise to our youngest participants with a film animation workshop for kids from 1st to 5th grade.
