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DIRECTING WITH CATE SHORTLAND [Open to All]
Discover how to gain truthful and honest performances through practical exercises with actors. Learn about script breakdown, story analysis, style, genre, characters, shot listing and story-boarding. Then on Sunday work with actors to develop directing techniques for casting, rehearsals and the shoot.
Tutor: Cate Shortland
Cate Shortland’s first feature film Somersault won her an AFI, ASDA Award, FCCA award and IF Award for Best Direction and her two part series The Silence aired to critical acclaim last year on ABC. Cate has also directed episodes of The Secret Life of Us and written and directed four award winning short films: Strap on Olympia, Pentuphouse, Flowergirl and Jo which received acclaim at the Oberhausen, Tampere, Clermont-Ferrand, Berlin and London Film Festival.
Sat + Sun [Day] 12hrs | Dates TBC
$256 / $300 non-members | 15 places.
Contact Metro Screen to express interest.
Call us on 02 9356 1818 or email us training@metroscreen.org.au
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This course is designed to expand the directors tool kit in order to prepare students for directing assignments as well as broaden their imaginative scope when interpreting scripts or generating their own projects. The course will be approached on the basis of script extracts that present opportunities for (or necessitate) intimacy. Examples will be drawn from a wide variety of sources including commercially released feature films and unproduced works from local writers and are not necessarily dealing with "love", but simply any situation where "sexual interplay" occurs between characters. Together, the group will break down these scripts, examining various possibilities for their realization and then embark on dramatizing and shooting the texts in groups. The course is about exploring an often-neglected area of directing in a supportive environment where students can benefit from the tutors and each others support and feedback. We aim to confront fears around this topic in a supportive group environment.
Tutor: Dean Francis
Dean is a graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School and has directed over a dozen films which have had more than a hundred film festival screenings. He has credits as a writer, director, producer and cinematographer and has also worked as an actor on stage and screen. His films include the short feature ‘Crazy Richard’, and the Directors Guild Nominated short ‘Vermin’ which premiered at the prestigious Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.
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Dean Francis’s commitments with his new feature film will place him in Adelaide over the scheduled dates of this course. Unfortunately, this means the Directing Sex Scenes course will not run as scheduled with new dates to be announced by the end of 2008.
FOR THE METRO SCREEN TEAM BEST + WORST SEX SCENES LIST [click here]
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DIRECTING:
VISUAL STORYTELLING [Open to All]
Develop your director’s eye in this unique course. Focusing on the visual aspects of directing drama, participants explore script interpretation, visualisation, shot choice, pacing, and point of view. Participants analyse various scripts and film excerpts to discover how camera angles, aspect ratio, shot sequence and staging effect the power of a story.
Tutor: Jonathan Wald
Originally from California, Jonathan has directed five short films, four of which he wrote. Together these films have screened at just under 200 festivals, won numerous awards, featured on DVD compilations in Europe and have been broadcast on cable stations including the Sundance Channel and HereTV. Jonathan has taught writing and directing at UCLA and AFTRS. Jonathan’s studies include Art History and Women’s Studies at university, where he graduated with High Honors. He worked for several years in professional theatre in New York, and then at film festivals in San Francisco. In 1997 he entered UCLA’s film production masters program. Two years later Jonathan received a prestigious Fulbright scholarship to the Australian Film Television and Radio School, in Sydney and he has won development funding from the AFC.
8 x Wed [Eve] 24hrs | July 9 | 23 | 30 August 6 | 13 | 20 | 27 September 3
$530 / $624 non-members | 15 places
Develop your director’s eye in this unique course. Focusing on the visual aspects of directing drama, participants explore script interpretation, visualisation, shot choice, pacing, and point of view. Participants analyse various scripts and film excerpts to discover how camera angles, aspect ratio, shot sequence and staging effect the power of a story.
Tutor: Jonathan Wald
Originally from California, Jonathan has directed five short films, four of which he wrote. Together these films have screened at just under 200 festivals, won numerous awards, featured on DVD compilations in Europe and have been broadcast on cable stations including the Sundance Channel and HereTV. Jonathan has taught writing and directing at UCLA and AFTRS. Jonathan’s studies include Art History and Women’s Studies at university, where he graduated with High Honors. He worked for several years in professional theatre in New York, and then at film festivals in San Francisco. In 1997 he entered UCLA’s film production masters program. Two years later Jonathan received a prestigious Fulbright scholarship to the Australian Film Television and Radio School, in Sydney and he has won development funding from the AFC.
8 x Wed [Eve] 24hrs | July 9 | 23 | 30 August 6 | 13 | 20 | 27 September 3
$530 / $624 non-members | 15 places
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A crucial course for those involved in Film and TV Production. The 1st AD plays a crucial role during the shoot. Develop effective skills in breaking down scripts, scheduling, timing shots, storyboards, and communicating to crew. This accredited intensive course gives you the knowledge, confidence and skills to be successful in a specialised role. You will not only participate in valuable simulated training exercises but also receive comprehensive notes to take home, with a breakdown of each topic discussed throughout the course. An extremely valuable learning mechanism to prepare you for any Assistant and Directing roles
Tutor: Heather Oxenham
Heather has twenty years of extensive experience in the industry on both commercial and independent productions. Her feature film credits include Erskineville Kings, Kiss or Kill, Floating Life and Sebastian and the Sparrow to mention just a few. She has worked alongside some of Australia’s finest Directors including; Bill Bennett, Rolfe de Heer and Scott Hicks. Sexy Thing, produced by Heather, was in the official selection for competition at Cannes Film festival 2006. Heather is currently the Line Producer on All Saints with projects in development in both Australia and the US.
This course covers a unit of competency from the Certificate IV in Screen.
4 x Wed [Eve] 12hrs | 09/07 – 30/07
$250 / $295 non-members | 12 places
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METRO
SCREEN’S BEST + WORST SEX SCENES IN FILM LIST
| BEST | |
| Mulholland Drive (2001) Dir: David Lynch. Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller. | |
| Erotic, sensual, dangerous, sexy and totally draws you in with the characters (not to mention it was between two hot chicks). | |
| Out of Sight (1998) Dir: Steven Soderbergh. George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez | |
| • | Understated but very sexy. Beautifully shot and, in my opinion, superbly edited this scene is so good because it is about what is not shown. |
| The Tall Guy [1989] Dir: Mel Smith. Jeff Goldblum and Emma Thompson | |
| Probably the funniest sex scene in a film ever. No household utensil or piece of furniture is spared in the raunchy ruckus. It also shows that sex and lust can be fun and not always as serious as it is usually portrayed on film | |
| Underworld: Evolution [2006] Dir: Len Wiseman. Scott Speedman and Kate Beckinsale | |
| A very tasteful and erotic sex scene that shows a very tender moment between two very violent species, vampire and werewolf. | |
| The Woman in Red [1984] Dir: Gene Wilder. Gene Wilder & Kelly Le Broque | |
| Only because I was 12 when I saw it. When Kelly said: "Come and get it, cowboy", I became a man. | |
| Y Tu Mamá También (2001) Dir: Alfonso Cuarón. Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna | |
| Maribel Verdú's attempts to teach Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna how to be better lovers culminates in a passionate scene that is so sexually charged the two male friends fall into kissing each other unexpectedly. The tension is delivered on screen flawlessly. | |
| My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Dir: Stephen Frears. Daniel Day Lewis and Gordon Warnecke | |
| It has this great moment where the two characters get hot and heavy in a dingy office and Warnecke drinks champagne from Day-Lewis' mouth. A really erotic moment and a monumental moment for queer cinema. | |
| Lost Highway [1997] Dir: David Lynch. Bill Pullman and Partricia Arquette | |
| Storytelling [2001] Dir: Todd Solondz. | |
| Last Tango in Paris [1972] Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci | |
| Probably the greatest ad for butter ever | |
| Sebastiene [1976] Dir: Paul Humfress and Derek Jarman. | |
| Requiem for a Dream (2000) Dir: Darren Aronofsky | |
| The sex at the gentlemen’s party gives strength to the films ideas of self inflicted abuse and provides a very powerful piece of cinema while managing to be erotic at the same time. | |
WORST |
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| Matrix Reloaded Neo and Trinity (2003) Dir: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski | |
| Self conscious, awkwardly staged, trying very hard to be erotic but felt like all the chemistry had been sucked out of them and they had those weird plug-holes things down their backs - gross. | |
| The Specialist [1994] Dir: Luis Llosa. Sly Stallone and Sharon Stone | |
| Wide shot of them in the shower... First time I ever looked away. | |
| Nine Songs [2004] Dir: Michael Winterbottom. Any of them! Just an excuse to show real shagging! | |
| The whole film
reeks of exploitation by showing actual penetrative sex. Does Michael
Winterbottom need to show us this to get the point across? If you don’t want to see a film, get a porno from your local R+18 store and play an indie compilation cd at the same time. |
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| Showgirls (1995) Dir: Paul Verhoeven. Elizabeth Berkley and Kyle MacLachlan – the pool scene is just disturbing! | |
| Distributing, bizarre and just plan weird. Elizabeth Berkley splashing about in that pool looks anything but sexy. She looks like she’s having some sort of fit. I don’t know how Kyle MacLachlan kept a straight face. | |
| FUNNIEST |
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| Team America World Police [2004] Dir: Trey Parker – there was crazy puppet sex going on in that film | |
| Puppets performing every move from the Karma Sutra ... need I say more? | |