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Summer Media Studio is an international workshop for film students and young professionals. It’s an intensive 12 days training, which consists of theoretical seminars taught by experienced professionals, practical filming in international crews, teams consultations during the creative process and short films final development – postproduction.
SMS 2015 will introduce the meaning, language and practice of film editing and filming through a combination of lectures, screenings, shooting, editing and presentation. Participants will learn how to plan their work flow that they would avoid editing problems in post production, also will be given with solutions how to solve minor and bigger scope problems that were not prevented during the shooting. SMS members will analyze two different types of editing ways – editing short and editing feature film. Besides that, tutors will uncover some editing goals, possibilities, its power and importance for the final result.
With an assistance of industry professionals and lecturers, 5 international shooting crews will accomlish 5 short films.
Project can be attended by film schools students and young professionals that already graduate, industry beginners. Each crew will include producer, director/scriptwriter, cinematographer, sound designer, film composer, editor.
SMS 2015 will take a place from 21st of June till 3rd of July, 2015 in Neringa (city of Nida), Lithuania. Neringa is one of the most beautiful resort areas at the Baltic seaside. It‘s an exceptional place of recreation with unique nature and specific culture which inspired and continues to inspire artist throughout the world. Curonian Spit is on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a site of cultural landscapes that has many natural and cultural values. It‘s an exceptional place for recreation with unique nature and specific culture which inspired and continues to inspire artists throughout the world. SMS participants will shoot their short films in Neringa region.
Please take Your time to enjoy the panoramas and get inspired for your film!
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Film students and young professionals can begin their preparations as the traditional international cinema workshop “Summer Media Studio” was announced to be held this summer. For the seventeenth time young cinema professionals and university students from all over the Globe are welcome to meet at the Lithuanian seaside town of Nida and open discussion about film editing philosophy. The intensive two week workshop will begin on the 21st of June and will last until the 3rd of July.
Filming and editing work at “Summer Media Studio“ is over. Very soon, tonight, students will see the creation of the big screen movies. They are evaluated by their peers, lecturers and guests. That’s what so great – the work of nearly two weeks of a young filmmakers, will be shown to the wide public. Once a prestigious film director has said that from the time when the movie appears on the screen, it is no longer yours. You become a spectator. It begins to live out your history, you can no longer change anything. Though, this is going to happen today. It will come the moment of truth – which movie will thrill the audience, and which – will leave indifferent.
Film students and young professionals can begin their preparations as the traditional international cinema workshop “Summer Media Studio” was announced to be held this summer. For the seventeenth time young cinema professionals and university students from all over the Globe are welcome to meet at the Lithuanian seaside town of Nida and open discussion about film editing philosophy. The intensive two week workshop will begin on the 21st of June and will last until the 3rd of July.
Over 30 participants will be selected for the international “Summer Media Studio” workshop. For two weeks international teams consisting of students and professionals from different fields of cinema will be developing drama, documentary and experimental film ideas. They will have the access to the most modern video and audio recording equipment with the support and advice from the best Lithuanian film industry professionals. It is expected for the participants to expand their professional horizons, develop and establish new international contacts. Participants registration already started and will least until 25th of May, application form available at www.summermediastudio.lt.
Every year the “Summer Media Studio” focuses on a different theme of cinema or film related professions. This year’s Studio theme is film editing philosophy. “Every time we try to look from the different perspective and touch the various stages of film production. This year it’s time to focus on the post-production of both video and audio. Thus the theme of the workshop is film editing philosophy. It is a very ambitious title as it means we will teach people not only to press the buttons but also to constantly think what is behind the editing and post-production in film. Experienced film professionals will help the participants to reveal the secrets of editing. This year instead of having the camp at our usual location in Juodkrantė, we will be moving to a new place in a nearby town of Nida. Another update for the Studio is that now it is open not only for the students as before but also for the young professionals – people who are already working in the cinema industry”,- said the head of the workshop, Inesa Kurklietytė.
The organizer of “Summer Media Studio” is Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. The project is supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture, Ministry of Science and Ministry of Education. The project partners – National School of Theater and Film Arts (Bulgaria), Latvian Academy of Culture (Latvia), Helsinki Metropolia School of Applied Sciences (Finland), friends – Audiovisual Arts Industry Incubator, Lithuanian National Radio and Television, Nida Art Colony and Vilnius Academy of Arts.
More information about the “Summer Media Studio”, the lecturers and the registration of participants can be found here: www.summermediastudio.lt.
• have an education and/or practical experience of the particular position he/she applies for
• be highly motivated to work in international crews and unusual locations
• be able to communicate in English, as English is the official working language of SMS
• send the application form and all annexes required before May 25th, 2015
• application form
• letter of motivation (at least 150 words)
• synopsis for a short film which will be shot during the workshop in Neringa, Lithuania. A minnimum 1500 characters required for script writers and directors, optional for ohers
• Curriculum Vitae
Participant fee is 360 euros. This fee covers accommodation, daily meals, lectures and travel costs from Vilnius to Nida and from Nida to Vilnius. This payment should be done by the participant not later than a week before official workshop beginning.
Application period – from 1st of May to 25th of May, 2015. Participants is able to participate as a director, cinematographer, sound designer, producer, editor or composer.
Selection criteria: audiovisual education, theoretical and technical knowledge, practical experience, strong motivation, interest in visual solution of a film, ability to work in international teams. For directors and scriptwriters quality of synopsis is most important selection criteria.
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Summer Media Studio (SMS) will be held with an assistance of three experienced tutors who will guide participants through all stages of short film making. Despite this, main emphasis will be set on editing and postproduction importance while making a film. Tutors will share their own experiences and good practise, will help participants to develop, plan and make creative ideas coming true.
Rufat Hasanov
Editor
Lecture #1: Cinematic Language: The importance of visual literacy
Understanding the historical, technical, and cultural significance of the universal language through the works of auteur filmmakers.
Lecture#2: Film Editing in Theory and Practice
An overview of the nature and purpose of editing, with an emphasis on creative and aesthetic problems and their solutions.
Kristina Buožytė
Director
Lecture #1: The power of film editing form the perspective of director
Directors point of view to the right use of editing while making short and feature films. Its power and influence for final result.
Lecture #2: Story telling and visual construction
Film editing is a moment when story from paper becomes alive, but which is the right moment of production when film maker should start to edit?
Tomas Rugys
Editor
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