Basic Directing Workshop

We were told that we would attend a two day seminar in which it would provide us and other students and faculty members the basics of film making and movie directing. This seminar was held in the Ateneo AVC room (Audio Visual Center). The seminar was given by documentary filmmaker Gutierez Mangansakan II. On the first day of the seminar he explained to us how hard it was to create a film back then because of the small resources that they would be given. He said that when he was still in college, the 10 minute roll of film would cost around 10,000 php. And that they would not use all of the 10 minutes, but only 3 minutes! So basically if you would do a 30 minute film back then (30 x 10,000= 300,000). Its just like buying a car for the first time. And he also spoke about what kind of shots would be best for a sequence, what angles would bring out the emotion of the scene and more.

Then on the second day of the seminar he taught us the essential things for a great film like cinematography, music, audio and the like. He also taught us how to create storyboards and how to utilize our new found knowledge by creating a sequence of shots from a short part of the story "The flight of Icarus". Our story was the second best out of the five groups because of the shot selections and the camera angles. I am very happy that this seminar taught me very useful bits of information about directing and film making. I hope that I would have the opportunity to enhance my knowledge and increase it further. Thank you Mr. Mangansakan!