Sydney Content Times &  Dates Session by Session

Starts Thursday 18th July 2024 - Finishes December2024 - Phone 1800131166

Big Start Up Night 18th July 2024 - Learn about Filmmaking & Meet your Future Collaborators

1. Thursday Night 18th July 2024 – 6pm – 9pm Screenplay Specialist Story Invention Workshop:

In this session we create the Story for the Film Production. We show you exactly how to create a story that grabs the audience.

 Learn How to write a great story & screenplay:

  • How to get ideas for a story
  • Story generating exercises.
  • Working from character
  • Building conflict
  • Using scene outlines
  • Working in pairs to come up with a short film concept.

2. Tuesday Night 23rd July 2024  6pm – 9pm Story Invention Workshop 

Scene outline exercise – writing a scene.

  • Formatting your script – using Writer Duet free software to professionally format a script.
  • Pitch Night Pitch your idea for your story. 
  • Workshop further the story with Objectives Obstacles and Story Structure.
  • Voluntary homework: Write the First Draft of the Screenplay and Submit
 

3, Tuesday Night   30th July 2024     6pm – 9pm   – Camera Training

How to use professional Cameras 

You will learn how to operate a Professional Camera and shoot a scene.

  • All Professional Film Equipment will be on site, and you will work with it. 
  • Tour of Camera Equipment and Lenses and Tripod
  • Black Magic Camera and Lenses and Tripod
  • Prime lenses – 13mm – 28 mm 36 mm 70 mm
  • How to balance a Fluid Head Tripod
  • How to focus effectively using a Focus Chart
  • How to get the best F Stop
  • How to frame a shot beautifully
  • How to pan and tilt

The Session will end with shooting a 30 second scene with 3 different Camera Shots.

4. Tuesday Night 6th August  2024       6pm – 9pm   Using Professional Location Sound Equipment and Lighting 

 Location Sound

  • Using the Professional Sound Recorder.
  • The Shotgun Microphone – The Windsock – The Foam Sock
  • The Pistol Grip – The Boom Pole
  • Wireless Transmitters and Receivers – Lapel Microphones
  • Setting the right sound levels –   How to record top class Professional Sound

5. LIGHTING You learn to use all the Lighting and Gaffer Equipment

  • The Film Lights: Dedos
  • LED Lights x 3 – Amazing Lights and how they work.
  • Gels – Spun – Reflectors
  • How to do three-point lighting on a film set.
  • The last 45 minutes –   Shoot a demo 30 second scene.

6 Tuesday Night 13th August  6pm – 9pm Screenplay Final 

  • Review of Chosen Screenplay
  • In class editing, cutting, polishing.
  • Workshop to make the screenplay better.
  • Final review and reading of script.
  • Writing dialogue – text and subtext
  • Editing exercise, in pairs
  • Writing is Rewriting

 7 Tuesday Night 20th August  2024 6pm – 9pm – Colm O’Murchu

The Best Gear for you to practice on 

  • If you decide to purchase gear, what is the very best place to get gear.
  • A very tight Budget and what you can get to make your films spectacular. 
  • Reminder All Professional Gear supplied by Australian Film Base for the 5 Month Film School Technical Training Sessions and Film Shoots. 
  • It is great if you can build an arsenal of Film Equipment for after the 5 Month Film School and even to practice on at home now. 
  • Eddie Aryara talks about his rise from Film Student on the 5 Month Film School to his 4th Feature Film making millions of Dollars. 
  • Eddie Araya goes thought Top End Film Equipment – The Dream Gear package for Full on Feature Films that look Hollywood.

8 Tuesday Night 27th August  2024       6pm – 9.pm – Casting Setup and Your Plan for Your Own Personal Film 

  • Casting Tuition: How Casting Works out:  
  • Setting up a Casting using Star Now – placing an ad for your film Casting 
  • How to Direct the Visual Shot listing and Blocking.  A Directors Skill
  • Production Design and the Film Director.

 9 Tuesday Night 3rd September  6.pm – 9pm Production Management One 

Prepare the Movie Shoot 

As we are getting close to the shoot, the focus is now on how to produce the 10-minute film by producing it.

Producer Preparation –

  • Casting Book the Actors for Casting Night 
  • The Shoot Schedule – The Script shall be broken down and set into 3 Shooting Days.
  • Locations – How to lock down final locations.
  • Location Scouting & Negotiation.

The Trial Shoot 8.3pm – 9.30pm.  To go through the shoot organisation, we will shoot a one-page scene from a Hollywood Movie with two actors on site. This will be a fun exercise that will prepare you for the 3 days of shooting.

10 Tuesday Night 10th September   6pm – 9pm   Casting Night with Film Director – Colm O’Murchu 

Casting Night – Real Live Auditions with Real Actors – Fun

  • Work on the Casting of Actors
  • Set up the Lights and Camera and operate them.
  • Use the Lapel Microphone on the actors auditioning.
  • Every 10 minutes an actor is scheduled for the casting.
  • Course participants get to direct the actors in the casting.
  • Approximately 25 actors will attend.

You will learn an invaluable skill.  You will know how to cast a film effectively by doing it for real. This is a favourite session, as one learns how to pick the best actors from the audition. 

11 Tuesday Night 17th September 2024 – 6pm – 9pm –   Directing Actors. –  The Full Breakdown   

 Tonight’s focus is firmly placed on working with actors. Actor Blocking and how it will determine the shot-list.

  • Top 10 Tips for working with actors on set.
  • How to direct Actors effectively when you are starting out.

Part Two Rehearsals with the actual actors cast for the film.
Actors for the Short film will arrive at 7.30pm

  • Costumes for the actors finalised.
  • Rehearsals with the actors How to rehearse.
  • Learn by rehearsing with the Actors.

12 Tuesday 24th September 2024       6pm – 9pm Colm O’Murchu – Film Career and Opportunity 

After your short Film is complete, how do you find the audience and how do you find work in the film business.

  • Film Festivals and your strategy for entering.
  • What is the best site for Film Festivals?
  • Earning money on Stock Video Sites
  • Where is the work in the film industry?
  • Your plan for getting work in the film industry.
  • Film Markets and how feature films are sold and make money.

13 Tuesday Night 1st October 2024   6pm – 9pm      

Shoot Preparations:  
 All Final Preparations for the Shoot: 

Tonight, you will complete all the final preparations and the preproduction for the movie that you will shoot.

  • Final Schedule organised.
  • Final checklist for the following – Locations – Crew – Production Design
  • Equipment Set Up.
  • The Essential Crew– Itemised Director, DOP, Focus Puller, Clapper, Sound Recordist, Boom Swinger, Gaffer x 2, Grips, Continuity Production Co-ordinator.
  • Rotations for the Shoot organised.

14 Tuesday Night 8th October  2024    6pm – 9pm 

READY STEADY GO:   Film Equipment Final Training Bootcamp

  • Call Sheets and how they are prepared.

Final Bootcamp Practice with the camera, lighting, and sound equipment to ensure you are “set-ready” and the crew works as a well-oiled machine before the shoot.  


The Three-Day Film Shoot – On Real Location Learn how to shoot a Movie by doing it for real.

15 Saturday 12th October   8am – 6pm    On Location: Shoot Day One 

You will direct a scene and you will work as a crew member on a real film with real actors on real locations. Every person revolves through the 10 Person Crew roles over the three shooting days. A designated time is allotted for each crew role. This will be from the film script you developed and the actors you cast. 

Director & Crew Roles for the Film Shoot that you will do:

  1. Director
  2. DOP
  3. Focus Puller
  4. Clapper
  5. Sound Recordist
  6. Boom Swinger
  7. Gaffer
  8. Grips
  9. Continuity
  10. Make Up


16 Tuesday Night – 15th October 2024   6pm – 9pm Shoot Review and Preparation for Weekend Two Edit Session One 

First Hour 

  • Review of shooting Day One.
  • Prepare Shoot Day 2 & 3

Hour Two and Three 

  • Adobe Premier Pro Set up Preparation for Start of Postproduction 
  • How to Data Manage your Footage 
  • How to sync your audio and video 
  • Prepare to edit. 
  • Watch Rushes
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17 Saturday 19th October    – 8am – 6pm: Shoot Day Two on Location

2Today you will work as a crew member, as a Director and as a DOP on a real film. Every person revolves through the 10 Person Crew roles over the three shooting days. A designated time is allotted for each crew role. This is 100% hands-on practical.

Director & Crew Roles for the Film Shoot that you will do:

  1. Director
  2. DOP
  3. Focus Puller
  4. Clapper
  5. Sound Recordist
  6. Boom Swinger
  7. Gaffer
  8. Grips
  9. Continuity
  10. Make up.


18 Shoot Day Three – Sunday 20th October  8am – 6pm

 The Film Shoot on location.

Today the Crew shoot on their own. You will work as a crew member on a real film. Every person revolves through the 10 Person Crew roles over the three shooting days. A designated time is allotted for each crew role. This is 100% hands-on practical.

19 Thursday  24th  October – 6pm – 9pm    Edit Class Two Learn How to Edit your Film.  You learn to edit the movie, on Adobe Premiere Pro. We currently have a video tutorial series of 11 tutorials, only available to people on the 5 Month Filmmaking Course. One must use these tutorials with the editing course lessons and the footage from the film. This way you will edit the entire short film.  

Editing a short film takes time and enthusiasm to complete outside of class time.   Therefore, it is voluntary section of the course and also the edit itself is a voluntary to complete. 

Allow 20 – 30 voluntary hours over a month, to complete an edit outside of course time.

The Three-Week challenge:   Edit the entire Short Film 10 minutes long (Voluntary).

Please note that editing is a great skill to learn and there is so much work in the film and video business for talented editors. It also pays well.

You will need a laptop or Desktop computer with a minimum of 8GB of Ram and the Adobe Premiere Pro Software available from Adobe.

You learn to edit the movie, on Adobe Premier Pro.  Editing continues the film.
You will learn how a film is edited and how to make the film look and sound professional.

  • Edit the film.
  • How to edit the material into a complete scene
  • You edit the film on Adobe Premiere Pro

Please note that editing and colouring is a very valuable skill to learn. There is plenty of work for very good editors in the film business. Postproduction has the most jobs.

 20 Thursday 31st October  6pm – 9pm        Edit Night Three.  Finish the post on the film. 

  • Colouring the film to make the film look great.
  • Music and how to use Stock Sites to source your music.
  • Adding music to your film
  • Credits and Titles
  • Preparing for Sound Mix
  • Exporting your final Film.
 

21 Sound Post Night Thursday 14th November  2024     6pm – 9pm  

Sound Post and Music mix Session. This is what makes the difference between a good film and a great film and will make the difference between success and failing.

22 Thursday Night 21st November    7pm – 9pm The Final Night Celebration Certificates and Screening of the Film       

Screening of the complete finished film and Certificates and Indie Film Club

  • Future Opportunities
  • Screening of the Finished Completed Film
  • 5 Month Film Making Certificate” Presentation.
  • Photos of group.
  • Social Mixer and Celebration

5 MONTH Filmmaking School Price Request

You will receive the following by email immediately.

  • Sydney 5 Month Filmmaking Course Fees / Prices 
  • Film Course Content, Session by Session
  • Times and Dates for Each Session 
  • How to Enrol Information and as soon as you are ready.Special Note: Your email is secure with us. 
Sydney 5 Month Film School Venue: 
Regent Street Chippendale. (Near Central Train Station)
 

Phone Inquires   1800131166
10am – 7pm Monday- Friday
Email business@australianfilmcentral.com

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