WILL THE SCENE STUDIES COVER A WIDE RANGE OF MATERIAL?

The scene studies cover a great range of material including: visual style, setting mood & atmosphere, opening a movie & story set up, characters and dialogue, the love scene, how to handle a group scene, action and stunts, special effects, flashbacks, the one-shot scene, emotional climax, character comedy in drama, story resolution.

WHAT ELSE WILL BE COVERED DURING THE WEEKEND SEMINAR?

The seminar is carefully organized on a schedule so it can cover all the major areas of the Directing Craft...from how to get started building a career, developing material & working with writers, preparing the script, the tools of story visualization, the language of film, prepping/shooting/postproduction responsibilities, casting & working with actors, budgeting and scheduling, location scouting, the business of directing, agents & managers, and how to put together a director’s reel.

WILL FEATURES AND INDIE FILMS BE COVERED?

Features will be covered very extensively and entire scene studies will be devoted to feature filmmaking. There will be detailed information about features vs. television with regards to the craft. “INDIE FILMMAKING” will be covered from casting to completion bonds, unions vs. non-union shoots, and an entire section from raising financing. how to structure a movie deal, to the selling of films in domestic & foreign distribution, including all available ancillary markets and streams of revenue. Also, festivals and creating your industry “buzz” will be covered.

WHAT LEVEL OF DIRECTING EXPERIENCE DO I NEED TO TAKE THIS SEMINAR?

The seminar is designed to accommodate all levels of experience. If you have never directed, this seminar will show you how in 2-days! You will leave empowered to start NOW and with the tools you'll need. If you have directed film shorts or videos, this seminar is crucial to provide you more advanced in-depth knowledge to develop your talents in planning your next directorial project. If you have directed features and/or television shows, this is a unique opportunity to share in another director’s intimate work process in expanding your own, and discovering new approaches, visualization techniques, and blocking skills. If you are a student, this seminar provides a rare opportunity to apply your academic knowledge within a framework of real directing assignments with a practical nuts-and-bolts analysis of professional filmmaking in both feature films & television with a working industry director.

WILL THIS SEMINAR ALSO BENEFIT WRITERS, PRODUCERS, ACTORS, EXECUTIVES, 2ND-UNIT DIRECTORS, STUNT COORDINATORS, EDITORS, DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY, PRODUCTION MANAGERS, ASSISTANT DIRECTORS, AND COMPOSERS AS WELL?

Learning the directing process is beneficial for everyone in the industry to expand their awareness of filmmaking and storytelling, and how it entails all personnel and departments.

The greatest joy for a WRITER is to learn to direct his own material...and if you only want to write, your own work will become more focused, fuller, and richer in expressing its story intentions if a writer knows how directors visually translate and interpret material...this is crucial to improving your sales success!

A PRODUCER should experience what directing is really about to support and facilitate the director’s work process in shooting their productions, and successfully realizing their long hoped-for dream projects...as a united filmmaking team.

Would an ACTOR want to work with a director who has no clue of the acting craft?
Every actor should learn as much about the Directing Process as possible to hone their own work in understanding how directors work with talent, how they cast, how they guide, nurture, and inspire the “acting instrument” to deliver great performances.

A film and/or television EXECUTIVE in development and production should be knowledgeable of the Directing Craft so they can more wisely choose which directors are truly visually talented, right for particular material, organized in their work process, and fiscally responsible to provide trusted leadership for their multi-million dollar films and television shows.

A 2ND-UNIT DIRECTOR and/or STUNT COORDINATOR would benefit in the development of their own specialties by sharing in the Director’s Process so they can better integrate and deliver their craft in conjunction with the director’s vision...and this knowledge is crucial for developing their own directing careers.

An EDITOR and a DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY would greatly expand their own creative talents by experiencing a deeper understanding of storytelling visualization through the actual Director’s Process in supporting a director's vision and contributing fully to realizing it.

A PRODUCTION MANAGER and a ASSISTANT DIRECTOR would profit from acquiring greater knowledge of the Directing Craft and the task of translating material visually to enhance their talents and crucial assessment skills in budgeting and scheduling, and line producing films & TV.

A COMPOSER would greatly benefit by learning more about the filmmaking process he will be writing his music for...and how directors think in telling their stories visually which the music score will have to support and highlight. Guy spends a lot of time talking about the music during each scene study and composers love this seminar as Guy calls it the "magic" of music and film.

This seminar is crucial for anyone who wants to move forward and realize their filmmaking dreams in whichever specialty of the industry.

WILL THERE BE HAND-OUTS, HOMEWORK, AND HOW WILL THE SCENE STUDIES BE PRESENTED?

Every scene study will begin with actual script pages distributed as hand-outs. The scenes will be broken-down just as if you were about to direct them. Next, the actual director’s SHOT LIST will be reviewed and discussed as the shooting plan takes shape, and solutions to challenging directorial problems are resolved.

The actual dailies of each scene will then be viewed on audio-visual screens...exactly as they actually happened. Then, the finished scenes will be viewed...as completed with final editing choices, sound and visual effects, CGI, and the magic of music.

This unique "see with your own eyes" teaching technique is what participants rave about, and what makes the Action/Cut Seminar so impactfully useful with the comprehensive directing knowledge it provides all its graduates.

Homework will be handed out on Saturday night to prepare for Sunday’s more intensive, in-depth scene studies.

WHAT IS IT ACTUALLY LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS SEMINAR AND WHAT EXPERIENCE CAN I EXPECT?

Easy answer...just check out for yourself what previous SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS have to say about their own experiences at the ACTION/CUT FILM INDUSTRY SEMINAR and why it is the most acclaimed seminar in the motion picture industry.

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