This is a two-day practical workshop on how to make a video. The first day focuses on production. You will be introduced to digital camera shooting using a 3-chip broadcast quality mini-DV camera. The second day is spent in the editing suite with hands-on instruction on the editing program Final Cut Pro 6.
Class size 2-4
Instructor:
- Pamela Matthews
Pamela Matthews (Cree), from the Sachigo Lake First Nation, is a Filmmaker, Director, Editor and Actor with more than twenty years experience in the industry. Pam received her Masters Degree in Film Production from York University in 2006. Her thesis film, A Shot in the Dark, a documentary on the murder of Dudley George and the Ipperwash crisis, has been screened at several festivals, including the ImagineNative Film Festival in Toronto, the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco and the Native Spirit Film Festival in England.
As an actor, she has appeared as Denise David in Indian Summer: the Oka Crisis and as Carolyn George (Dudley George’s sister) in One Dead Indian - for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the American Indian Film Festival. Her other television roles include The Border, Renegadepress.com, The Rez, Destiny Ridge, Street Legal and North of 60, for which she was nominated for a Gemini Award for her role of Suzie Muskrat. In 2003, she received the Gold Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement from Ryerson University’s Department of Film (CE).
$190.00 member
$230.00 nonmember
Maximum number of participants: 4