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- 10am – 4pm Scriptwriting for Animation Workshop
- 11am – 4pm Game Design Workshop
- 4pm – 6pm Professional Filmmakers and Creative Digital Media Practitioners: Get involved with First Light!
- 7pm – 9pm Festival Launch: Animation in the West Midlands: A Snapshot
- 7pm – 11pm Big Screen Gaming
Scriptwriting for animation workshop
10:00am – 4:00pm
This one–day workshop, run in conjunction with Script and Animation Forum West Midlands, will explore the particularities of animation production and writing, leading to an individual 60 second script which will then be submitted to the Flip Animation Challenge with the opportunity to be produced by animators in residence during the festival and screened on the final day
The workshop is led by Myles McLeod, one half of BAFTA nominated The Brothers McLeod. They are known for their screenwriting and animations as seen on BBC, MTV, Channel 4 and elsewhere and direct commercials for internationally famous studio Aardman Animations. Myles holds a Masters in Screenwriting and writes for television, short film and computer games.
This 5 hour workshop will include:
- Creating characters
- Three act structure
- Scene structure
- Getting inspired
- Thinking animated
- Taking criticism
- Writing a 60 second script
Cost £25/£20
Game Design Workshop
11.00am – 4.00pm
This one day workshop, run in conjunction with Wolverhampton University’s Institute of Gaming and Animation, is a great opportunity to get introduced to the X-Box XNA game platform which allows users to begin developing their own games with the free downloadable tools from Microsoft.
Cost: £5, pre booking essential
Supported by The School of Computing & IT and The School of Art & Design, University of Wolverhampton
Professional Filmmakers and Creative Digital Media Practitioners: Get involved with First Light!
4:00pm – 6:00pm
This special presentation looks at the work of First Light and our impact and achievements. We’ll be showing some of our award winning films and providing an insight into how new organisations, filmmakers, schools and youth organisations can access our funding and get involved in film productions. Join First Light, the UK’s leading young filmmaking initiative, as well as others interested in applying for one of First Light’s funding streams to discuss the processes, pitfalls as well as discovering more about the life changing experiences available to young people from this sort of participatory project.
The event will be followed by drinks and networking with an opportunity to meet partner organisations, professional filmmakers and digital media practitioners.
First Light is the UK’s leading initiative enabling young people to realise their potential via creative digital film and media projects.
Free event. Pre-register by emailing info@firstlightonline.co.uk
More information on First Light visit www.firstlightonline.co.uk + www.media-box.co.uk
Festival Launch
Animation in the West Midlands: a snapshot
7:00pm – 9:00pm
In this special launch event, we’ll be asking what’s the current state of the West Midlands’ animation industry? How can we help the sector develop and expand at a time of recession? This event, co-hosted by Flip, BCU and Animation Forum West Midlands, seeks to find out. It’ll include a screening of work from leading animation studios and individual filmmakers and a panel focussing on some of the achievements and highlights from the region. The panel will include Chris Randall from Second Home Productions, who pioneered an innovative replacement animation technique and Andy Guest from The CharacterShop, who are involved in a number of international co-production projects. This is a great opportunity to find out more about animation in the region, and to join the debate about how to help the sector develop and expand.
Birmingham City University, Faculty of Technology, Engineering & the Environment, City Centre Campus, Millennium Point, Birmingham, B4 7XG.
To reserve a place, contact info@light-house.co.uk,
Big Screen Gaming
7.00pm – 11.00pm
More excitement in the evening for gamers. Big Screen Gaming is an opportunity to bring your game playing experience to the big screen with the X-BOX 360 and the shooter, Halo 3. The event will be competition based, so players will need to register at the beginning of the evening. Based in Light House’s 65 seater Studio cinema, there will be plenty of room for spectators to watch you play the latest X-BOX shoot ‘em up game on the big screen.
£2, participants register between 7.00 – 7.30
Supported by School of Computing & IT, University of Wolverhampton
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