Tell your story and curate your artistic voice through filmmaking! We will begin by exploring film as an expressive art form and how artistic vision is anchored in each filmmaker’s unique point of view. Students will concentrate on developing their visual storytelling and critical thinking skills through a series of exercises as well as short film and feature length scene viewings towards that end. Other elements the course will cover are: collaboration between filmmakers and actors, blocking and camera placement, generation of ideas, pitches and loglines, and scripts.
Students will have an opportunity to make short, five minute films together in the final classes and potentially screen these for family and friends.
Instructor: Samuel Tomfohr is a filmmaker, writer, and actor whose short films have been featured at festivals across the United States. His stage credits include The Cherry Orchard and All My Sons. A former Fulbright scholar to Brazil, he has taught filmmaking in New York, São Paulo, and Berkeley. He holds a BA in film from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in film directing from Columbia University. He is currently developing a feature film set in the Bay Area.
- Tue 4:30–6pm
10/7, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11
$185
