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Workshop Instructor: Terry Gadsden
Description: Effectively fashioning your vision so that it hits the screen with maximum accuracy is a terrific achievement. Preventing problems before they happen is a whole lot more fun than trying to wrestle with less than effective footage in the editing room, or even further on downstream.
Any production will have its share of unexpected problems, but awareness and preplanning will help you have a smooth shoot and post experience.
Terry Gadsden will dive into a few simple yet powerful techniques that might help you out on your next project.
Using examples from movies old and new we will look at:
Shot choices to best express the action.
The evils of continuity mismatches.
Simple techniques to help you avoid continuity problems, while at the same time help you to speed up or slow down your film’s pacing, as needed.
Shot design that will help you express claustrophobia or pressure, and, in the same camera set up, express clarity and resolution.
Techniques to create character revelation through the use of contrary motion and colour.
Biography: Who is Terry Gadsden and Why should you listen to him?
Well, he’s been around…
Experience along with wonderful mentors can provide an excellent education.
Terry Gadsden’s full-time career in the film industry started in 1968. Across the years he has acquired extensive experience in almost every aspect of film, video, and music and sound effects production: director, editor, composer, producer, writer, art director, assistant director, location sound recordist, lighting, voice talent director, budgeting, camera assistant, translator, cinematographer, sound designer, postproduction supervisor, production planner, scheduling, cost estimating, advertising agency producer, title designer, special effects, casting, sound mixer, ACTRA signator, client liaison – when you’ve done all that you can’t help but learn a thing or two about the benefits of organization.
Terry has worked for CBC-TV, CTV, Global, TVO, Bravo, the Disney Channel, the BBC in England, and many production companies. His name is on many awards: EMMY nomination, several CLIOs (American advertising awards), Bessies (Canadian advertising awards).
Production experience with: television and radio commercials for Coca-Cola, Chevrolet, Pontiac, Infiniti, and Saturn automobiles, Kellogg’s cereals; television specials for CBC and CTV; animated productions for TVO, APTN, and Sesame Street in New York; music videos for Bravo and for streaming; promotional films for IBM and Adidas; educational films; mini-series, like Anne of Green Gables for Kevin Sullivan; documentaries for CBC, BBC, and Bravo. Thousands of hours in Canadian recording studios and mixing theatres.
Experience with all film formats: 16mm, 35mm, 70mm, IMAX, most digital formats.
International Experience: location work in Russia, Holland, Florida, California, England, the United Arab Emirates, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal, and the Maritimes in Canada.
Organization and planning can be the difference between a smooth production and a painful one. Organizational steps taken before a production begins will increase the joy factor for everyone involved.