The Department of Filmmaking offered two workshops during the summer break – one conducted by Prof. Barry Blaustein from Chapman University and another by Prof. Charles McCarry, a production designer for film and television.
Prof. Bluastein’s three-week workshop, which began on June 27, offered students training on scriptwriting.
Prof. McCarry’s workshop, which started on July 3, showed its participants the work of a film production designer.
The participants in Prof. Blaustein’s workshop were expected to acquire the capability of writing scripts for Hollywood style feature films.
Their assignments included reading at least two scripts written in English, and they had to come up with outlines of stories that could be developed into full scripts.
They had to finish writing and revising the first act of their scripts by the end of the workshop.
The participants came up with a host of ideas for different film genres, such as sci-fi and romantic comedy.
Prof. McCarry’s workshop, which started on July 3, let the students listen to an aria from the “La boheme” at the very first day of class, and then they were asked to design the set for the first act of the opera
The students could set the scene in any period or city, but they had to show its essential elements, namely the hunger and cold facing the characters. During the workshop, Prof. McCarry also shared his experience of working as a production designer for film and television.
Prof. McCarry last conducted a workshop at TNUA in 2014.