• turn your idea (or someone else’s) into a script
• hire a crew
• find a director
• organize the paperwork
• cope with setbacks
• build contingency plans
• barter
• everything in between.

In the end, you will have a basic knowledge on how to get a project started, keep it going, and see it through to completion.

The job of producer varies from project to project, person to person – but in all cases, a great deal of producing comes from personal experience and one’s own style of leadership.  This class will show you what you, if you were a producer, could expect in any given project, and how you can take the things you already know and apply them to a movie project to make it successful.

Instructor: TJ Cooley

Price: $30

Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Time: 6:oopm-9:00pm

Location: The Film Council of Greater Columbus

1021 East Broad St.

Columbus, Ohio 43205-1357

The Film Council’s offices are located in the carriage house in back of 1021 E Broad St. Parking is available in the Red Cross parking lot directly behind the carriage house, which can be accessed either from S.21st (the alley directly after the church) or from Madison Ave. Please park in the two rows that have the Delorean (the Back To The Future Car) and the box truck. The workshop will be held upstairs.

This workshop will be taught by Dawn Friedman, a successful blogger and professional writer whose blog has been featured in such places as Time Magazine and the Washington Times.

What you should bring: Students should bring their own laptops to practice the skills hands-on.

Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

Cost: $25

Location: Wild Goose Creative

Wild Goose Creative

2491 Summit Street

Columbus, OH 43202

Understanding and creating your own schematics and circuit board layouts.

You will become familiar with symbols used in electronics engineering and have an understanding of tools and reference material used in drawing schematics in electrical and electronic fabrication.

What to bring: You will need to bring either a Windows, Mac or Linux based laptop. Freeware cad software will be distributed during class.

Cost: $25

Max: 10 students.

Age group: 10yrs to adult.

Date: April 17^th, 10AM to Noon

Location: Lifelong Labs

6100 Channingway Blvd. Suite 708-P

Columbus, OH 43232

Phone: 614-868-LABS

What is digital storytelling? Imagine a short video, about four minutes long, containing spoken word over music and carefully-timed still images.  For an example, see a finished product by our friend Evelyn Van Til from the Ohio State University: “Happiness”.  Why tell a story this way? Digital storytelling tickles audio, visual, and tactile senses simultaneously: by hearing the voice, seeing the pictures, and feeling the rhythm, the audience profoundly experiences the storyteller’s reality.

As part of our pilot project, Alison Colman, our founder, is currently serving as a digital storytelling guest artist for the TRANSIT ARTS program. TRANSIT ARTS, as the organization’s website describes, “transports young people to a place of discovery where they expand their creative abilities and realize a world of possibilities”, often in spite of these students’ everyday environments, which devalue such abilities and possibilities in favor of emotional challenges, limits, prejudices, and expectations.

We will keep you updated on the students’ progress. So far, they have explored big questions. What are good stories about? Their answers in the group discussion included relationships, entertainment, food, and travel. How are good stories told? They decided it was the evocation of emotions and experiences through strong detail, honest recall, and careful timing. Having pulled stories from their own experiences and jotted down all the elements of these stories – the exposition, problem, climax, and solution – the students are now prepared to record their own voices telling these stories, many of them for the first time in their lives.

It is truly a thrilling process that comes with stories of its own, of challenges for the students and challenges for the instructors, and victories and lessons for all. We take in the whole story, aurally, visually, and rhythmically, and trust in the way life’s stories have of reaching a climax of change and learning.

Click here to view more pictures of the students and the process.

Enjoy the slideshow.

Photo Finish

Pigs Might Fly

Pig Decap

Resilience

So Close…

Lazy

The Winners’ Round