Rowan?s Cinema Workshop to Produce ?48-Hour Film? During 14th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival
Rowan?s Cinema Workshop to Produce ?48-Hour Film? During 14th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival
April 5, 2005
Looking to building on their success of last year, Rowan University's Cinema Workshop club will again participate in the ?48-Hour Film Project,? an international competition requiring teams to produce a short film in 48 hours. The Philadelphia regional competition will be held on April 8-10 and resulting films will be screened during the 14th annual Philadelphia Film Festival to be held April 7-20.
This year, the Cinema Workshop team will be one of only 30 selected to participate in the regional competition. During the event, teams will choose a genre at random. Project organizers will then assign a prop, character, and line of dialogue to be incorporated into each film. Each team then will have only 48 hours to write, shoot, edit, and score a four-seven minute film using the assigned elements. Cinema Workshop?s 2004 production, The Delivery, was named one of the 10 best ?48-Hour? entries last year.
The Cinema Workshop student filmmaking organization was established more than 25 years ago at Rowan. Under the advisement of Radio/TV/Film Professor Dr. Joseph Bierman and Film Production Coordinator Sean O?Leary, students write, produce, direct, shoot, and edit a variety of short projects during the course of the year. Project leaders are chosen and production teams assembled much the same as those on professional films. The 48-Hour film crew leaders include: Samantha Berges, producer; Lauren McGarry, assistant producer; Sal Randazzo, director; and Matthew Basile, assistant director.
Basile, Cinema Workshop president, said the 48-Hour Film Project gives Cinema Workshop members an opportunity to band together for a one-of-a-kind crash course in filmmaking.
?The contest allows members to quickly learn the ins and outs of filmmaking, while bonding with fellow members and then, in the end, producing something that they all feel a part of and can take pride in completing,? he said. ?The project tests the skills members have learned in the club by forcing them to throw themselves into something and get something that would normally take several months done within 48 hours. This makes for an exciting and thrilling weekend of filmmaking that brings the club closer together. ?
For more information about Rowan University Cinema Workshop, contact Dr. Joseph Bierman at 856-256-4289 or Sean O?Leary at 856-256-4307 or visit there website at www.cinemaworkshop.com. Learn more about the 48-Hour Film Project at: http://www.48hourfilm.com/faq.htm.
This year, the Cinema Workshop team will be one of only 30 selected to participate in the regional competition. During the event, teams will choose a genre at random. Project organizers will then assign a prop, character, and line of dialogue to be incorporated into each film. Each team then will have only 48 hours to write, shoot, edit, and score a four-seven minute film using the assigned elements. Cinema Workshop?s 2004 production, The Delivery, was named one of the 10 best ?48-Hour? entries last year.
The Cinema Workshop student filmmaking organization was established more than 25 years ago at Rowan. Under the advisement of Radio/TV/Film Professor Dr. Joseph Bierman and Film Production Coordinator Sean O?Leary, students write, produce, direct, shoot, and edit a variety of short projects during the course of the year. Project leaders are chosen and production teams assembled much the same as those on professional films. The 48-Hour film crew leaders include: Samantha Berges, producer; Lauren McGarry, assistant producer; Sal Randazzo, director; and Matthew Basile, assistant director.
Basile, Cinema Workshop president, said the 48-Hour Film Project gives Cinema Workshop members an opportunity to band together for a one-of-a-kind crash course in filmmaking.
?The contest allows members to quickly learn the ins and outs of filmmaking, while bonding with fellow members and then, in the end, producing something that they all feel a part of and can take pride in completing,? he said. ?The project tests the skills members have learned in the club by forcing them to throw themselves into something and get something that would normally take several months done within 48 hours. This makes for an exciting and thrilling weekend of filmmaking that brings the club closer together. ?
For more information about Rowan University Cinema Workshop, contact Dr. Joseph Bierman at 856-256-4289 or Sean O?Leary at 856-256-4307 or visit there website at www.cinemaworkshop.com. Learn more about the 48-Hour Film Project at: http://www.48hourfilm.com/faq.htm.