Online Class on Screenwriting for FNI
Here's what you don't want to miss: Film Lectures on Functional Moviemaking - Techniques to avoid formulaic movie concepts
- Why film isn’t slices of life and how to become fluent in film as a language (August 12th, 6-8 PM GMT)
- Show, don’t tell, like a pro (August 14th, 6-8 PM GMT)
- Characters are like signs on a screen - good dialogue is meaningful noise (August 19th, 6-8 PM GMT)
- Visual style - myth-busting of rules (August 21st, 6-8 PM GMT)
Book and pay here for a special 4-classes-package for only € 60,-!
Spread the word: April 28th Ip is coming to Zurich for another lecture on his special field of functional film grammar, which is all about the knowledge required for putting emotions, thoughts, messages into the public's heads according to a plan. It is a no-nonsense approach to filmmaking which only cares about the technicalities of messaging via moving images - the art part is still up to you and your artistic visions.
Ip’s Dublin Lectures on Practical Film Dramaturgy - Get the Full Picture on Tools for Progress
What would you say if you could meet Aristotle, Leonardo daVinci or Ludwig Wittgenstein? Wouldn’t you give anything for that? - Well, I had the chance to meet the one person I regard as a contemporary Aristotle, the distinguished philosopher Prof. Sir Roger Scruton, in private at his home at the Sunday Hill Farm. also attending lectures by him at Cirencester College over the course of ten days this summer.
As summer nears its conclusion Ip will take a trip to England, for once not in order to teach but rather to learn. Having been a sceptic against all those ideas that media academy is prone to put into students’ heads - especially all those mythologies by Roland Barthes and the apostles of semiology - Ip will exercise the opportunity to get a deeper view into the secrets of art. This time from a less agenda-driven point of view but rather in terms of appreciating art for its own merits. How can we cherish art when all the time we are told that Western culture needs to perish? How are all art forms connected? Is the so called seventh art only a short-lived spectacle that owes its existence to o fleeting technical novelty? These are just a couple of questions for which I hope to find some answers.