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.