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David Johnson
Director, The Mohamed Amin Foundation
Video Filmmaking: Technical Issues
This one day Master Class is designed for young filmmakers who are still grappling with the technical aspects of production. |
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We will talk about issues surrounding the camera, compositional elements, recording formats, location sound recording, lighting, editing, final mixing and colour grading.
The participants will be encouraged to discuss the technical problems they encountered with the above, whilst making their films. Possible solutions will be discussed.
Included in this Master Class will be a presentation on the various video formats that exist between Standard Definition and High Definition and how to deal with the differences between these formats. The technical considerations required when working in these various formats and how to choose the right format for initial acquisition in order to maximize your film's market potential, will be addressed. |
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KWAME NYONG’O
Amongst his various interests, Kwame Nyong’o directs his energy primarily towards animation and illustration production. Kwame has been part and parcel of many key animation training and production initiatives in the region, including UNESCO’s ‘Africa Animated!’ project, and Tiger Aspect’s ‘Tinga Tinga Tales’ children’s TV series.
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Kwame directs and produces short films, commercials, and storyboard work for the film and animation industry in Kenya. Kwame also illustrates for book and editorial, his most notable success being creating the children’s book ‘A Tasty Maandazi’ in 2006.
With his short film ‘The Legend of Ngong Hills’, 2011, Kwame further explores the possibilities that lie in using animation to tell African folklore. |
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Federico Olivieri is the cultural attaché of the Embassy of Spain in Kenya. He first graduated in Journalism at the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain). He holds an MA in Global Media and Post-National Communication at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. Olivieri grew up in Tarifa, the Southern-most European town facing Africa on the Strait of Gibraltar, where he has taken part in the organisation of its annual African film festival – FCAT or Tarifa African Film Festival. He has participated in courses and seminars on African cinema and Postcolonialism in Spain, Kenya, Equatorial Guinea and the UK.
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Lizelle Bisschoff (Moderator of the East Filmakers forum)is the founder of the Africa in Motion film festival (www.africa-in-motion.org.uk), an annual African film festival taking place at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse Cinema. Now in its 6th year, Africa in Motion is the biggest African film festival in the UK. Lizelle holds a Masters degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in African cinema from the University of Stirling in Scotland, in which she researched the role of women in West African and Southern African film. She has published widely on sub-Saharan African cinema and is currently working on two major research publications, on the reconciliatory power of art to overcome trauma and conflict in African societies (forthcoming 2012), and on early and neglected African film classics from all over the continent (forthcoming 2013). |
Lizelle has presented seminars and papers on African cinema at numerous conferences, educational and arts institutions in the UK and internationally and she teaches Masters courses on African cinema and African popular culture at the University of Edinburgh. She was a jury member at the Zanzibar International Film Festival in 2011. Lizelle is currently a Leverhulme postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh, conducting an in-depth study into the emerging East African film industries. |
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