Factory Film Workshops: Master Class Week

MASTER CLASS: BEYOND the ART and INSIDE the TECH is a workshop series that offers you the opportunity to get hands-on technical skills (TECH) and allows you to get a glimpse inside the mind of the artist (ART).

Terrance Odette

OLD TECH, NEW TECH – WHO CARES? TELL A STORY
Monday June 15th 2015
6:30 – 9:30 pm

Derek Jarman, Jean-Luc Godard, Abbas Kiarostami. With the early works of these three I was encouraged to dare to become a filmmaker.
What was it that I found inspiring? Examining the works of these and other filmmakers, what did I learn in practical filmmaking terms and how did I apply it to all four of my feature films?

Dan Zen

MAKING GAMES WITH HTML 5 CANVAS
Tuesday June 16th 2015
6:30 – 9:30 pm

Learn the basics of programming a game you can make with any text editor and run on any Browser. Inventor Dan Zen teaches Interactive Media at Sheridan and has helped thousands of people to start coding. His work can be seen at the Dan Zen Museum.

Outcomes:
Learners will program a game of skill for the HTML 5 canvas Learners will create shapes, animation and sound for the game Learners will apply click, drag and keyboard interactivity Learners will use programming logic to control the game play

Part 1 (50 Minutes + 10 Minute break)
1A. Introduction to games on the Browser and the HTML 5 Canvas
1B. Introduction to programming and programming environment
Part 2 (50 Minutes + 10 Minute break)
2A. Displaying assets with code like shapes, pictures and sounds
2B. Programming basics: variables, functions, conditionals and events
Part 3 (60 Minutes)
3. Making a game together such as catching falling objects

Victoria Fenner

SOUND AS STORY
Wednesday June 17th 2015
6:30 – 9:30 pm

Victoria Fenner is a sound and radio artist based in Barrie, Ontario (formerly of Hamilton for over two decades). Her style of sound art is heavily influenced and informed by three schools of production – the abstract world of audio art, the concrete world of radio current affairs, and the artistic world of electro-acoustic music.   In addition to her career as a sound artist and documentarian, Victoria has worked in all aspects of radio for over twenty years. She has worked as a producer, journalist, documentarian and sound engineer for CBC Radio and also at community stations in Canada and the United States. She is now working with video producers to create visual productions which support and enhance her sound art creations, as well as exploring new ways to present sound works in real and virtual space.

A Picture Paints a thousand words, as the saying goes. But the reverse is also true … words and sounds can paint a thousand pictures.
The focus of the Sound as Story Masterclass is to explore how to create sound pictures. Useful for video artists, podcast/radio producers as well as artists of all genres using sound (theatre, dance, electroacoustic music), the masterclass will explore:

• artistic approaches towards sound by Canadian and international artists, including film and video artists
• listening skills including soundwalking
• creative composition techniques including recording and composing with found sound
• creative field recording
• choosing appropriate technology – microphones, recorders and editing software

David Ogborn

LIVE CODING MUSIC
Thursday June 18th 2015
6:30 – 9:30 pm

Create beats, melodies and textures using free and open source software (SuperCollider)

Mike Trebilcock

MUSIC FOR MANIACS!
Friday June 19th 2015
6:30 – 9:30 pm

Mexican stand-offs, Cannibals, Zombies!

All in a days work for a composer-for-hire.

Mike Trebilcock has had a long musical career full of great stories. He criss-crossed Canada with his Juno-winning rock band The Killjoys throughout the 90’s, and has since written music for the live theatre version of Night of The Living Dead (“George A. Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead Live”), and arranged, wrote additional music, and played all of the instruments in the hit Toronto musical (South Park creator, Trey Parker’s brainchild), “Cannibal! The Musical”.

This master class is about how a composer can survive and thrive in all kinds of environments, writing music not just for himself, but also to further the creative endeavours of fellow maniacs along the road.

Jenn E. Norton