Walk-in seminars on production topics you need – from fundraising to budgets, to media management, sound recording and new camera technology. All classes are $20/$10 (low income) unless otherwise noted. The workshops take place at Third World Newsreel.  Package rate available: $80 for all six sessions ($40 for low income). Register now at workshop@twn.org.

 

The Fall season starts this October 15th.  To pre-register, please contact:  workshop@twn.org.

 

DOROTHY THIGPEN, Filmmaker and ED of Third World Newsreel and a guest speaker will go over useful tips on grant writing and sample production—with years of experience on funding panels for NEA, NYSCA and more. Bring your proposals and samples for critiques!

 

A TWN workshop grad, veteran of the acclaimed film collective Black Planet Production/Not Channel Zero and former Manager Director of Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Phipps has done almost everything in production, from Script Continuity to TV station management. A media educator and social issue documentary maker for almost 20 years, she is now the Senior Broadband Editor at TV Land Digital, and is finishing a new film, SEEN BUT NOT HEARD: AIDS AND THE UNTOLD WAR AGAINST BLACK WOMEN.   Phipps will screen a trailer and talk about her new film, and speak about how one gets into and stays in this field.  This workshop is free.

 

People rave about good pictures - but only talk about sound when it's bad. The basics of recording, microphone types, hard drive recorders and mixers, working with large and small format cameras, and how to avoid heartache at the mix. Bring your questions. With JT Takagi.

 

As you prepare to produce your film/video, you should also be planning - and budgeting for the various other multimedia you will need to create - from podcasts to blogs to interactive websites and social media sites.  Ann Bennett, the Multimedia producer for THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (By Thomas Allen Harris and Deborah Willis, PhD) ,discusses and demonstrates the terrain of new media and how you can get started.

 

WEDNESDAY, November 19th at 6:30 PM: CREATING A PODCAST

Andreas Jackson, "Defuse News" Podcast Producer for the Hip Hop Association (H2A) talks about producing video and audio podcasts - the nitty, gritty of the equipment, production, marketing and dissemination of a technology in the service of social justice.  A copresentation of TWN and the Hip Hop Association (H2A).

 

Getting ready to produce your film - from research to preproduction to post production and distribution, with a special focus on preparing budgets.  With lots of useful handouts! Led by Producer/Director Ann Bennett, who has worked for WGBH, WNET, HBO and is currently the Multimedia producer for THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People.  (By Thomas Allen Harris and Deborah Willis, PhD)

 

 

 

 

 All classes Wednesdays 6:30 PM at:

Third World Newsreel

545 Eighth Avenue, 10th Flr

between 37th and 38th Streets

1,2,3,A, C, E, to Times Square

 

 

Learn to edit through examining films, exploring media literacy principles - and learning Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro, in a 6 week course on Saturday Afternoons from 1-3 PM.  Editor Sikay Tang (Chisolm '72: Unbought and Unbossed; The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till) will lead this workshop, which will start Saturday, October 25th at 1 PM.  The class costs $300 and pre-registration is required.  Email:  workshop@twn.org.

 

 All editing classes on Saturdays at 1 PM at:

Third World Newsreel

545 Eighth Avenue, 10th Flr

between 37th and 38th Streets