Missed the Music For Film event?

If you didn’t manage to get a ticket to April’s Music For Film event due to the speed of their selling out, do not fear.

You can check out what went on at Cineformation, but also at the South West Sound daytime convention by clicking here & reading composer Alan Deacon’s fantastic write-up.

0117 - Made in Bristol

For those Cineformation members who missed the boat and haven’t sent submission forms for the new 0117 – Made in Bristol publication, you’ve got a few days to get them in to us.

The exciting annual publication will launch this September and will feature over 300 of Bristol’s leading design, digital, animation and marketing companies along with interviews and in depth features on many of the city’s creative entrepreneurs and movers and shakers.

The official deadline for submissions has passed but if you are a Bristol based film/media professional or student and think you and your work should be featured, outline who you are, what you do and why it’s worth shouting about and email it to beth@cineformation.com by no later than WED 7 MAY.

Competition will be extremely high so we can’t guarantee your you will be featured but please get in touch if you think you should be included.

Hear Martin Kiszko's new work

The Emerald Ensemble featuring Elektrodome

Part of ElektroStatic – The Emerald Ensemble’s New Music Series

Wednesday 7th May, 8pm, Colston Hall Bar, Bristol, £8, £5 (concessions, under 26s)

Players from the Emerald Ensemble will be joined by interactive technology pioneers ‘Elektrodome’ and their unique Soundbeam equipment. In award-winning composer Martin Kiszko’s newly composed piece, the themes of spying and covert surveillance rendezvous with music in a work that explores secret messaging, bugging, phone tapping, pursuit and chase. ‘Vi Spy’ is scored for Violin and Soundbeam – an ultrasonic device that enables a performer’s movements to trigger sound and image.

Shubunkin (Stewart Freeland) performs music that is constantly evolving due to the way that it is composed and performed through live interaction with electronic devices. Using Soundbeam movement sensors to play notes, melodies, manipulate and trigger samples. Shubunkin frees himself from the desk and laptop, developing an individual act demonstrating how a digital artist is able to engage physically with the music creating a live element to the performance.

This concert is part of Colston Hall’s ElektroStatic bar series – a series of four concerts featuring Bristol’s premier professional chamber group The Emerald Ensemble. In each concert, players collaborate with pioneering artists at the cutting edge of musical innovation. Come along to encounter unique sonic and visual experiences, world premieres and rarely heard classics of the avant-garde.

Click here for more details.

Bursary opportunities - SW Sound

We have a small number of bursaries for this year’s South West Sound convention at Watershed on Thurs 24 April.

Delegate passed are £45 but with the bursary you will only have to pay £5 for the full day’s events.

Email info@cineformation.com if you’re a composer or performer & are interested.

Missed the Film & Media event?

Thanks to all those who made it to last week’s Film & New Media event, hope you enjoyed your virals!

If you missed it, don’t worry… just click here to get a blow by blow account & to view the content.

And click here to view more photos

Animation Bridge Masterclasses

ANIMATION BRIDGE MASTERCLASSES

Visual Structure, Bruce Block – 10 May BAFTA London

This is a rare opportunity to learn from a highly experienced US based feature film producer, Mr Bruce A. Block.

Mr. Block has served as a producer, director or creative consultant on feature films, television shows, commercials, animated films, computer games and IMAX movies. His feature film credits include: “The Holiday”, “Something’s Gotta Give”, “Stuart Little”, “As Good As It Gets”, “The Parent Trap” and “America’s Sweethearts”.

Visual structure is the only language available to picture makers yet it is often misused or simply ignored. The principles discussed in the seminar can be used for live-action or animated theatrical motion pictures, television shows, commercials, or computer games. The seminar relates all of the visual concepts to practical production and bridges the gap between theory and practice.

Visual Language and Story Structure, Frank Gladstone – 17 May, Watershed Bristol

ANIMATION BRIDGE: Visual Language and Story Structure

A day-long presentation on cinematic language and narrative story telling with award winning Frank Gladstone

Frank Gladstone has been a professional animator, producer, director, writer and teacher for nearly 35 years, first managing his own Emmy award-winning studio and then in senior positions for Disney, Warner Brothers and DreamWorks, among others. His DreamWorks credits include THE ROAD TO ELDORADO, SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON, SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN SEAS, and SHARK TALE. At Disney Animation, he worked with production teams on RESCUERS DOWN UNDER, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ALADDIN, THE LION KING, POCAHONTAS and MULAN. Frank continues to be in demand as a consultant and teacher at major studios and schools, worldwide.

This interactive, copiously illustrated and occasionally irreverent course is presented in two sessions: a lively discussion of three of the four basic elements of visual language and their use in supporting cinematic storytelling; and the forth element of visual language, Movement, is broken down into its various forms (elemental, mechanical, editorial, ocular)

Comedy Intensive Course, Steve Kaplan – 31 May, Arts Institute, Bournemouth

For more than 15 years, Steve Kaplan has been the industry’s most respected and sought-after expert on comedy. His former students’ accomplishments are unmatched: They have been nominated for 43 Emmy Awards, 1 Academy Award, 3 Golden Globe Awards, 1 American Comedy Award, 6 Writers’ Guild of America Awards and several others. They’ve WON 10 Emmys, 1 Oscar, 2 WGA Awards and the American Comedy Award.

His Comedy Intensive workshop offers proven and practical methods and principles that help you understand comedy from the inside out: Why is something funny? How do you write funny? How do you make your characters funny? How do you structure a comedy story? How do you think funny so it translates from idea to page to screen? In addition to teaching his seminar around the world (he recently taught a series of workshops and seminars in Australia) Kaplan has taught workshops to such companies as Dreamworks, Disney, HBO and others.

BOOKING

Places cost £25.00 per course and are limited to people with prior media industry experience. To get a booking form, visit the South West Screen website: www.swscreen.co.uk or email info@swscreen.co.uk.

These events are funded by South West Screen, Skillset, South West Regional Development Agency and Aardman Animations.