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Let’s Make a Movie!
By admin | April 15, 2011
The “Let’s Make a Movie!” workshop is a mile-a-minute combination of workshop, improvisation, and technology, and for the past decade has been regularly producing short films from each and every workshop.
In the “Let’s Make a Movie!” workshop, everybody joins in on a round-robin soup-to-nuts moviemaking experience. The workshop exposes the writhing entrails of the filmmaking process, to show — through a hands-on step-by-step process — each and every participant that not only can they make a movie, but that they can make a fairly decent movie with a story and a structure, with practically no lead time or prep time.
If you want to review a few movies that have come about from this workshop, please check out “Con of the Dead,” and “Manslugs!: the Making of a Sci-Fi Original,” which are more horror/sci-fi in flavor, at Guerilla Productions.
The workshop heads include local low-budget filmmakers Edward Martin III (“The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath,” “Flesh of my Flesh,” etc.), Eric Morgret (“Strange Aeons: The Thing on the Doorstep”), Ryan K. Johnson (“Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation,” “Flesh of my Flesh”), and Brian Oberquell (Pyro and effects specialist from Vancouver BC).
This workshop stretches across the entire Norwescon weekend. Here’s the schedule:
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Thursday, 4/21, 9pm-11pm, Cascade 10: Intro: It’s our 12th anniversary! For more than a decade, we’ve been making movies every Norwescon, like some sort of terrifying clockwork monkey. Be a part of history without actually burying yourself in the desert for a thousand years! In this introduction, see all the movies ever made at Norwescon as a part of this ground‐breaking workshop, including hilarious video introductions by the filmmakers. Here’s the best place to watch all these movies at once and behold the genesis of one of the weirdest and funniest workshops ever to be tolerated by Norwescon! Learn about some of the weird and heinous behind‐the‐scenes stories! Feel free to ask the filmmakers questions afterward, if they’re brave enough to stick around! Be inspired for part 1!
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Friday, 4/22, 10am-noon, Cascade 10: Plan it!: You were there for part 0, right? Quick! Time travel! In part 1 we go over the plan, figure out the gear, work up a story, write the script, plan the shoot and do pretty much anything else we can think of. That’s right, from soup to nuts, we’re going to make an entire movie here at Norwescon. This is your chance to be a part of the annual fun and learn how to make a movie on a budget so tiny, calling it “shoestring” would be an insult to shoestrings. The key to making a movie, of course, is good planning!
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Saturday, 4/23, 10am-noon, Cascade 10: Shoot it!: You were there for part 1, right, where we figured out what we needed and planned this movie out? Quick! Time travel! In part 2 we shoot like mad weasels because there’s not much time, and if we’re going to make a movie at light speed, then we have to move like light! So don’t be late, or you’ll just see red‐shifted versions of us. The key to making a movie, of course, is to get the footage in the can, or “box,” actually, because we’re shooting video. But you know what we mean.
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Saturday, 4/23, 6pm-8pm, Cascade 10: Edit it!: Let’s make a movie! You were there for part 2, right, where we shot video like crazy? Quick! Time travel! In part 3 we show you a little about editing, how we put all that crazy footage down and made it into a movie that made some kind of sense. Actually, we hope it makes some kind of sense. We never really know. If you bought a computer within the past two years, chances are excellent that you have more digital video editing power at your fingertips than has ever been subject to the hands of Ordinary People. Learn about using this power for Good. Or Evil. We don’t care because we only use it for Fun. The key to making a movie, of course, is editing.
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Sunday, 4/24, 2pm-4pm, Evergreen 1/2: Fandance Film Festival: In its 12th year, the festival is a celebration of low‐ and no‐budget cinema, brought to wondrous, lurching life by amateur filmmakers from all around the Pacific Northwest. More than just the movies, this 120‐minute extravaganza of entertainment also includes the filmmakers, to regale you with terrifying tales of their productions. Be there or be a regular right quadrilateral! The Fandance Film Festival is the final terrifying phase of the Let’s Make a Movie Workshop, in which participants walk through every step of making a movie, from conception to the premiere of the finished product.
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