Courses,
Workshops, Training
NEW COURSES now booking. Call 0115 952 6611 to book.
It's the end of summer, and what better way to shake off the
damp autumn air than immersing yourself in the joys of cinema
with one of our popular film courses. All the courses stated
here are for beginners and require no previous course experience,
just an enthusiasm for the subject!
Road Movies
Alan Seaman
Wednesday Afternoons 2-4pm
10 weeks commencing 15th of September
£70/ £50 concessions and members
One of the most enduring and endearing of genres,
the Road Movie combines a love of travel and adventure and vicarious
meetings with strange people...all from the comfort of the armchair.
This course will look at how this most essential of American genres
evolved over the decades but will take in views of tarmac from
France, Britain, South America and some very cold places as well.
The course will include 2 screenings within the 10 weeks.
Beginning
Screenwriting
Graham Lester George
Wednesday Evenings 6.30-9pm
8 Weeks commencing 22nd September
£130/ £100 concessions and members
Back by Popular Demand! This course will teach you the following
important topics:
Premise, outline, and film treatment: What they are and what they
are for. Story Structure: story from beginning to end. Visual
writing: makie the movie roll in your head and how to develop
characters you and your audience will believe in.
Talk
Cinema
Helen Gascoyne
Tuesday evenings 7-8.30pm (on discussion days)
10 weeks Commencing 28th of September
£60/£40 concessions and members
Back by popular demand!!!
This course is for the Cinephile who would like to dig a bit deeper
and talk about the films they see at Broadway with like minded
individuals. The course will consist of bi-weekly films from the
Broadway programme and then in-depth discussions and illustratative
analysis the week after. The first film will be Winter’s Bone
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399683/
on Tuesday the 28th of September.
*Coming
Soon*
Intermediate Screenwriting
This is to flag up in plenty of time the next course which will
run early in 2011. The next level up from the beginners course,
it will involve developing and workshopping your project – either
a short screenplay or a treatment for a full length movie – and
will require you to write between sessions. Application for the
course will be by submission of a half to one page story outline,
and the 10 places will be awarded on merit. You will already have
a good grasp of screenwriting basics (you may have attended Graham's
beginners classes). Submissions should be in by mid-December -
watch the next issue of the Programme - but don't leave it till
the last moment. Start thinking about it now and give it your
best shot.
Send your submissions to Eleanor Thornley at the Broadway address
and be sure to include your contact details.
Aspects
of European Cinema: Scandinavian Film
Serena Formica
Monday Evenings 7-8.30pm
5 Weeks commencing 4th of October
£35/ £25 concessions and members
Scandinavian cinema has seen a huge surge of international popularity
of late, not least thanks to the adaptations of crime writers
such as Steig Larsson and Henning Mankell. This course will take
a brief look at the history of Scanionavian cinema before diving
into the contemporary output of the region including Sweden, Denmark,
Finland, and Norway.
Lust
for Lists: The Greatest Films Ever?
Paul Scully
Wednesday Evenings 7-8.30pm
10 weeks commencing 6th of October
£70/ £50 concessions and members
Taking
one film a week, this course is based on the international critic’s
poll of “the greatest films ever made” published in Sight &
Sound magazine every ten years. The ‘Top Ten’ movies provide
an opportunity to consider different genres ( melodrama, musical,
sci-fi and others) authorship (Welles, Kubrick, Renoir, Ozu
et al;), national cinemas - France, Japan, Italy, the Soviet
Union, etc; - and to question the notion of “greatest” and the
lust for lists so prevalent in contemporary culture.
The current list is: Citizen Kane; Vertigo; La Regle
du Jeu; The Godfather (1&2); Tokyo Story; 2001: A Space Odyssey;
Battleship Potemkin; Sunrise; 8 1/2; Singin’ in the Rain.
Documentary
and Storytelling
Rachel Walls
Thursday Evenings 7-8.30pm
5 weeks commencing 7th October
£35/ £25 concessions and members
It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries,
in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.
—Werner Herzog
While documentaries claim to provide evidence of the way things
are, or were, in the world outside film, it is widely recognised
that documentary films are not windows on the world but crafted
interpretations of reality. Storytelling is as crucial to documentary
filmmaking as it is to feature filmmaking, in fact, some might
feel it is an unnecessary distinction. This course seeks to examine
processes of storytelling in documentary film from early classics
such as Night Mail (1936), through to Age of Stupid
(2009). What visual and audio narrative techniques are used? How
have filmmakers drawn attention to or hidden the storytelling
process? What are the ethical problems of telling someone else’s
story? How successful have attempts at collaborative storytelling
been? What new opportunities are there for collaborative documentary
storytelling in the digital age?
Calling
All Teachers!
£3 tickets for your students
Whether it’s linked to an area of the curriculum, a cultural visit
or a reward for excellence a trip to the cinema is a fantastic
experience for young people.
If you book as a school, college or university group for one of
our programmed screenings, tickets are £3 per student and free
for accompanying teachers. You must book in advance as education
tickets are limited for each screening.
For groups of over 50 we can put on a private screening of your
choice - subject to film availability.
For education bookings please contact Steve Little by email on
s.little@broadway.org.uk
or by telephone on 0115 850 7812.
