AFTRS

 

Couldn't make it to AFTRS for one of our events? This is what you have missed so far in 2012...

 

• Monday October 22 // 6:00pm : Glories of the Score II //
  AFTRS Theatre 1

Presented by AFTRS Screen Music & the Australian Guild of Screen Composers.

Curated by AFTRS head of Screen Music Martin Armiger the event features live performances with four composers:

• John Gray
  
• Jessica Wells
• David Barber
• Damien Lane.

Each composer will talk about their work on a particular project - spanning; process, score and soundtracks - showing the original shape of the music and filmed excerpts of the final films.

FREE Monday, October 
22
6.00pm - 10.00pm

AFTRS Theatre 1, The EQ, Moore Park, Sydney

Bookings essential :rsvp@agsc.org.au

 

 

• Tuesday October 23 // 6 -8 pm : Swimming with Sharks // AFTRS Theatre 1

 

In 2011 Screen Australia's Talent Escalator program provided AFTRS graduate Michael Pontin (Graduate Diploma Producing & Screen Business 2011) with a four-month Village Roadshow/The Gotham Group internship, based at its Los Angeles Studios.

Michael is back from LA and will be sharing his experience of 'how Hollywood really works'

Michael spent four months in LA working closely with Village Roadshow's VP of Production, Matt Skiena as well as Luke Sandler from The Gotham Group on a structured internship program focusing on script analysis and film packaging and will share his experiences of 'what its is really like in to LA'


October 23 will also see the launch of the 2012 Screen Australia/Talent Escalator AFTRS Producing internship.

WHERE: AFTRS Sydney, Theatre 1

COST: FREE.  No need to rsvp.  Just turn up

 

• Tuesday October 16 // Sound Bytes Broadcast Audio // AFTRS Theatre 1

Developments in Digital Transmission has included changes to the delivery of the audio.

This SoundByte session will cover the audio broadcast systems and discuss the implementation and implications of the "new" loudness guidelines and discuss  developments in the broadcast chain for audio with a panel of industry representatives including:

• John Maizels (SMPTE Director),
• Glenn Carrick (Network TEN and FreeTV)
• Andrew Seale (TCN 9)
• Tim DAvis (FOXTEL)
  
  

October 16: 6:30pm
AFTRS Theatre 1

FREE

No need to rsvp // Just turn up first in best dressed

Building 130
The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park, Sydney

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• Monday October 15 // Red Carpet: Ten Festival Directors in One Room // AFTRS Theatre 1

Red Carpet is a special AFTRS Screen Culture event celebrating the vibrancy and diversity of our screen culture.

Glimpse the year to come through a series of fast moving presentations from ten or more film festival directors on the ideas that inspire them and the events they create

• Keynote Speaker: Nashen Moodley, Artistic Director of the Sydney Film Festival

• Plus the directors of the Alliance Française French Film Festival, Queer Screen, The Festivalists, Antenna Documentary Film Festival, and many more

• Special presentation on International Networks for Festival directors presented by  J'aimee Skippon-Volke, Director of the Byron Bay Film festival

Followed by light refreshments and mingling

 

Date: Monday October 15
Time: 6:30 - 9:30pm
Place: AFTRS Theatre 1, The EQ, Moore Park, Sydney

RSVP essential: screencontentevents@aftrs.edu.au

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• Thursday, October 11 // 6pm // Masterclass with David Wilson - Getting your film into festivals // AFTRS Theatre 1
  

Presented by AFTRS & ANTENNA DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL

David Wilson is the co-founder and director of the True/False Film Fest in the US, and has been an associate programmer for the Sundance Film Festival since 2008.

 

In his role as director of True/False, David has been invited to speak on panels at Sundance and the IFP Markets in New York and Chicago about film festival strategy, and also serves as a consultant for the Creative Capital Foundation, the LEF Moving Image Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

As a filmmaker, David has had his work screened at festivals around the world and on PBS.

This masterclass will cover what he looks for when programming True/False and Sundance, as well as providing tips on international festival strategy for documentary films.

John Macfarlane will be moderating the session. John is editor of SBS Documentary Online and part of Antenna's pre-selection team.

 

FREE // No Need to RSVP. First in best dressed.

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• SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 9 // YOUTUBE - 'STAR IN A DAY'

 

Presented by YOUTUBE and AFTRS

A FREE One-Day Workshop for 16-18 year old creators of new media

• Want to start generating YouTube content but don't know where to start?

• Already on YouTube and looking to build your audience?

• What about trends, collaboration and analytics?

 

Taking place at at Google HQ this FREE, exclusive and one-day only YouTube workshop will see AFTRS, along with Christiaan and Nick from Bondi Hipsters, hosting sessions on content production.

The YouTube experts will be sharing their top tips and tricks for making the most of your YOUTUBE productions and how to go from being the hit of your school to global superstardom.

 

You will learn about:

• Next generation content
• Broadening your opportunities as a YouTube creator
• Getting your start on YouTube
• Building your channel and audience
• Scripting your ideas
• Camera, lighting and sound techniques
• The rules of production

WHO: 16-18 year olds

DATE: Sunday September 9, 2012

TIME: 9:00 am -5:00pm

WHERE: Google Australia, Level 5, 48 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont

COST: FREE.  Places limited to 80. 

RSVP to secure your place today by sending an email to open@aftrs.edu.au with the following details:

• Your full name
• Date of Birth*
• Mobile phone number

 

 

• AUGUST 21 // SOUND BYTES # 4

The recently released Australian feature The Sapphires combines comedy, heart and romance with an unbeatable soul music soundtrack, all set against the racial and social upheaval of the late 1960s.

The sound & music team were given the challenge to place viewers in the lives and emotions of the four young aboriginal singers as they entertained American troops in Vietnam.

Sound Bytes #4 will provide insight into the production techniques required to bring the songs, sounds & culture of the 60s to a contemporary audience.

The discussion will include:

• Andrew Plain - Supervising Sound Editor,
• Bronwyn Murphy - Dialog Editor
• Will Ward - FX Editor, and additional members of the sound team

 

August 21: 6:30pm
AFTRS Theatre 1

FREE

No need to rsvp // Just turn up first in best dresed

Building 130
The Entertainmet Quarter Moore Park

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• AUGUST 4 // CSB presents: NOT FLUFFY*

*In the Romantic tradition, artists are considered to be in touch with the sublime… and a bit fluffy. Hopeless with money and no good at business. Many people still believe this. But is it true?

 

At this fast-paced conference, we are re-imagining the creative enterprise.

You will:

• Find out from David Court what film producers can learn from a 17th century theatre company.
• Hear from Dr Jordi McKenzie about CSB's experiments with box office prediction.
• Learn from economist Simon Molloy how love as well as money makes the creative economy go round (and what that means for producers).
• Hear Prof Michael Fraser make the case for a Copyright Registry (so that copyright works can be easily found, licensed, and transacted).
• See a presentation by Tony Shannon about the findings from his work with 300 businesses in the creative sector.
• Find out from Prof Deb Verhoeven what is it that producers actually produce.

 

Morning tea and lunch provided

Be part of the studio audience!

+ Student: $75
+ General Registration: $95
+ Bring a friend ½ price. (tickets must be booked and paid together)

 

August 4: 10am-3pm
AFTRS Studio 2

Building 130
The Entertainmet Quarter Moore Park

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• AUGUST 1 // WHERE AND WHAT IS A FILM CRITIC IN THIS DAY AND AGE?

Join us for a discussion about the changing role of film criticism, how one becomes a film critic and its value as a job. Massive changes in media and communications means there are more channels of distribution for film commentary, discussion and writing than ever before, but is most of it criticism?

Options for encouraging quality film criticism will also be examined.

Aspiring critics are particularly welcome!

Panelists: Adrienne Mc Kibbins, Russell Edwards, Ed Gibbs, Giles Hardie,
Dee Jefferson, Alice Tynan, Karen Pearlman (moderator/head of screen studies at AFTRS)

A joint initiative of AFTRS and the Film Critics Circle

 

FREE  & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

August 1, 6.20pm for a 6.30pm start
Theatre 1, AFTRS
Building 130, The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park

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Image:  Still from Prometheus courtesy of Fuel VFX

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• JULY 31 // AFTRS & FUEL PRESENT: PROMETHEUS & THE ART OF VFX

2012 saw Ridley Scott return to the sci-fi genre with the release of Prometheus, and Sydney based VFX company Fuel was one of the three lead visual effects vendors, delivering more than 200 complex visual effects shots for the feature.

Fuel's VFX Supervisor Paul Butterworth worked closely with Ridley Scott and the film's overall VFX Supervisor Richard Stammers to help realise Ridley's vision and spent several months in the design and look development process to ensure the final version of the effects met with the director's vision.

Paul will share his Prometheus experience - perfect for vfx artists, screen designers and cinematographers!


JULY 31 6:30 - 9pm
AFTRS
Theatre 1
Building 130
The Entertainment Quarter
Moore Park, NSW

FREE

No need to rsvp. First in best dressed

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