Workshops
AFW Action Editors Program
The 2-week workshop offers instruction in Final Cut Pro digital editing with the emphasis on action film sequences. Editors learn Green Screen techniques and use After Effects to create muzzle flashes, blood spurts and explosions.
Action editors work with directors and stunt coordinators on projects in a variety of film styles. They learn the action film process from pre-production to post. Finished projects are professionally screened at the closing festival, and editors leave the workshop with an external drive full of projects.
Curriculum
Film Styles
Action Adventure, Film Noir, Gothic romance, teen slasher, urban realism, sci-fi, war, western, slapstick comedy, kung fu, music video, chase scenes, and movie trailers.
Pre-Production
Script development, storyboards, location scouting, scheduling, legal, rehearsal, lenses, marketing, etc.
Post-Production
Final Cut editing, After Effects, Foley work, sound dubbing, music editing, re-shoots, cutting promo trailers, Live Type, soundtrack, and iDVD.
Additional Instruction
Motion capture, green screen, blood effects, gun safety, crash pads, fire stunts, squibs, falls, car shots, underwater shots, etc.
AFW editors may also choose to act, operate cameras and boom mic's, set lights, choreograph, edit, AD, and co-produce for other directors' productions.
Any AFW candidate with specific technical expertise may be eligible for a scholarship or stipend. AFW is currently seeking the means to offer college credit to workshop participants.
