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Are you a budding filmmaker? Eager to capture the moral and economic bankruptcy of Honolulu and expose the cynics in charge? Or maybe you just want to make a better music video and are tired of winging it on your iPhone. No matter what your goal is, you can profit mightily by signing up for the one-day course, “The Building Blocks of Filmic Expression,” at UH-Manoa’s Outreach this November 16. The boot camp is the brainchild of top PBS hand Robert Pennybacker, who has 30 years’ experience in TV specials, features, shorts and promotions. He’s also the executive producer of the groundbreaking “Hiki No” program, training student digital video journalists from all over the state to produce their own segments, which air on PBS every week.

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“What students will learn,” says Pennybacker, “is how to use montage (editing), space (composition), rhythm, and premise (story structure) to express themselves in film the way musicians express themselves through melody, tone, and tempo, or the way choreographers express themselves through movement, space, and rhythm.” Adds Pennybacker: “ In other words, they will be made aware of the film artist’s palette.”

Pennybacker notes that if you were born after 1950, chances are you speak film as a second language. If you were born after 1980, you’ve unconsciously assimilated the grammar and storytelling techniques of film to the point where it comes as naturally as breathing. Now here’s your chance to formalize your knowledge and take your film potential to the next level.

To sign up, go to the direct link: http://www.outreach.hawaii.edu/pnm/programs/2013/EVENT-L12865.asp  

Or else visit the UH-Manoa Outreach homepage and search “The Building Blocks of Filmic Expression”: www.outreach.hawaii.edu/pnm/programs.