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Workshop Instructor: Alison Taylor

Workshop Description: You wrote your script. You shot your footage. Now what? In this 90-minute workshop, we will go through the steps of setting up of a project, importing media, and organizing it, as we discuss different approaches to workflow. We will then put together an opening scene as we consider the various elements of film language — pacing, structure, shot choice, and sound — and how they work together to do two primary things: tell a story, and elicit emotion from the viewer.

Biography: Alison Taylor (they/them) is an award-winning author, CCE-nominated editor, and renegade filmmaker based in Fredericton, NB. They have edited a hundred-plus hours of television, many award-winning short films and music videos, and the Colombian box-office hit El Jefe (in Spanish). Their own experimental films have screened at festivals internationally, and they have led editing workshops for LIFT, York University, and Charles Street Video in Toronto, as well as the New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative. Taylor’s debut novel Aftershock, published by HarperCollins Canada, received an Atlantic Books First Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. They received the 2024 David Adams Richards Prize for Fiction for their work-in-progress, Confessions of a Binge Drinker (working title); and their screenplay “Sleeper,” currently in pre-production, received awards at the 2024 WIFT-AT Pitch This! competition and in the JL Screenwriting Award competition. An alumnus of the CFC’s Editor’s Lab, and with degrees in film from Queen’s and York Universities, they now work as a freelance editor of both books and film and video.