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2 June 2010 OHS industry briefing: Is your production up to scratch?
From ScreenWest
Did you know that if you don’t comply with the legal OHS requirements you can be prosecuted and fined or imprisoned? SPAA in association with ScreenWest is hosting a special two-hour seminar to provide industry practitioners with an overview of OHS in film & TV and the resources you can access to help you plan your next steps. This will cover the requirements of current OHS law and the impact changes in OHS legislation will have on WA screen production practices and responsibilities. This free seminar will take place on Tuesday June 8. More »
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5 May 2010 The Graduates
Friday the 7th May, will see the students from FTI’s inaugral Diploma of Screen Acting course graduate. The innovative program is Western Australia’s first and only accredited course specifically designed for students seeking an acting career in Film and Television. More »
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15 April 2010 Creating Narrative Comedy
A Two-Day Course With Tim Ferguson
This AWG course explores the principles of creating and writing narrative comedy for television and film. Participants will be shown how to construct a sitcom or narrative comedy from the ground up, making choices in terms of theme, sub-genre, character, structure, morality, style and tone. The course focuses upon the principles of jokes and narrative humour. These ancient principles are universally applied through all comedies. Participants are presented with processes and principles for devising comic conflict, metaphors, juxtapositions, reversals, story structures, knowledge differentials, pathos, subtext and the rhythms of comic dialogue. The course operates by way of lectures, script analysis and the viewing of narrative comedies. Some class time will also be devoted to exercises and workshopping. The course concludes with tips for formulating series bibles and pitching concepts to the film or television markets. More »
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1 April 2010 MAKING MOVIES ROADSHOW Hits the Road
The MAKING MOVIES ROADSHOW has packed its swag and will hit the road once more in 2010. Apply now to have the MAKING MOVIES ROADSHOW visit your regional or remote community this year.
The joint initiative of Woodside, NITV, ScreenWest and FTI, aims… More »
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26 February 2010 Meet Alan Murphy, Animatronic and Costume Effects Design, The Wolfman
A WAnimate Event
Not many people can say they turned Benicio Del Toro into a werewolf on a daily basis. In 2009 Alan Murphy worked on The Wolfman (now showing in cinemas), a horror movie set in Victorian England, directed by Joe Johnston and starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, and Emily Blunt. More »




