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This is one of its kind camp/seminar/workshop, organized by and for people who are interested in film making and related topics, and want to know more. Its an interactive seminar, with maximum 10-15 people at a time, so that each and everyone gets a personal attantion, spread over the span of a weekend, which includes 6 hours of theory/interactive sessions and another 6 hours of practical work to get more hands on to learning, and exploring more in the field of film making.

On March 21/22, Bangalore, The first sucessfull seminar happened, With a group of six people.

The Topic this time around was “Claymation”

Claymation is the generalized term for clay animation, a form of stop animation using clay. Claymation involves using objects or characters sculpted from clay or other moldable material, and then taking a series of still pictures that are replayed in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement.

In a claymation production, artists sculpt the characters out of clay and often support the sculpture with wire molds underneath. To create the illusion of movement, the position of the sculpted characters is altered slightly in every still photo, or frame. Just like other forms of animation, claymation generally requires a storyboard or background for the characters to be set against and to develop what they will do or say. Depending on the length of production, the same character may need to be sculpted hundreds of times.

To read more about it, please read this Wikipedia Article – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_animation

In this workshop, we talked about the technique and easy methods of doing claymation, which involved sessions on lights, camera and tripods set up, the discussions over framing, taking care of details regarding storyboarding, scripting, etc. And we also made a film based on claymation, which would be around 1-1.5 minutes in duration. The final product will be edited and put online soon enough on our website.

To get information for more events and seminars of this kind, please enroll your email for subscription.

Previously we have done DFM workshops in all over India, including places like IIM-A, IIT mumbai, IIT Roorkee, IIT delhi, Bits Pilani, SVNIT Surat, MSU baroda, Sastra University, etc.
Please check our workshop video here…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z4AfVkh7rhQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ifchei768ek
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PRr2WxdAyuc

Schedule

14 August,2008 – 6:00 p.m. to 8 p.m. – Orientation
15 August,2008 – 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Pre-Production
16 August,2008 – 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Production
17 August,2008 – 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Post-Production

Screening for the movies made by participants in the workshop will be screened on August 18, 2008 within 6 to 8 PM.

DFM COURSE CONTENT

Part- 1

• Skills (camera movements, compostitions , angles, lightings tech, editing skills, basic special effects, graphics and title)
• Flash and real shooting (mixing animation in real video)
• Chroma keying ( The miracle technique )
• Storyboarding ( paper planning of film )

Part-2

• Artistic approach ( why this camera angle? why this
  camera movement ? why this kind of lighting ?)
• How to direct a short film?
• How to write a short film? (With practical assignments)
• Editing softwares (understanding interface and practice)
• Lighting (setting different mood using different lights)
• How to handle and care equipments in field?

Part-3

• Preproduction (An idea, scripting, storyboarding,
  rehearsal with actors, timing and planning the film)
• Production ( Actual shooting a short film of max 5 min)
• Post production ( log the footage and edit the film on
  PC using non linear editing software)

Part-4

• Screening of films made by participant and open discussions regarding filmmaking.

Part-5

• Introduction to professional film making equipments like Jimmy Jib, crane, track trolley etc..

The total fee for the workshop is Rs 4950 (four days).

Other Terms:

• The DFM participants will get free membership of FTFM for one year.
• We are screening 51 short films in WIDE ANGLE ON July 23- 24, 2008. The festival is called as SIGMA51.The screening passes will be available at Wide Angle 18 July onwards. Those who purchase Sigma51 passes for whole session will get 10% discount in DFM fee.

Contact Us at mailftfm@gmail.com to register for the DFM. Open to only 40 students, and its on first come first serve basis.

Here, the day to day activities of Sigma 51 are posted by core team. The ups and downs, the sleepless nights and restless days in order to search for the best.

keep reading. Keep getting inspired.

Thanks and regards,
Ekta

along with that, also the members page is going to be updated so that people can sign up for the subscription of the newsletter.

btw, if you want to see some things to be added on this website, please mail it at mailftfm@gmail.com

thanks.

check out our blog to see live action on sigma 51.

OUR BLOG – http://ftfm.wordpress.com

also sigma 51 has its own page now. which shall be updated soon.

www.sigma51.com

Next update in order is of Blog and Newsletter that FTFM would publish every month starting from next.

Please keep watching this space. Subscribe to this blog, in order to get updates in your email.

While you’re around, don’t forget to check our Films and Projects Section.

Thank you very much for your interest.

Cheers.