PROFESSIONAL COACHING FOR ANIMATION FILM PRODUCTION
Instructor Mr. Max Howard October 3-6, 2009
Course Outline and Objectives
Who can attend?
Participants and target groups of the training will consist of professionals from the animation film/film sector, mainly producers, directors and animators, but also any other entrepreneurial/decision making, advising or creative professions from the film sector, for example, representatives of public film bodies, commissioning editors from broadcasters, distributors, exhibitors, media lawyers, directors, writers, film school teachers, etc.
3 project groups consisting of 2 persons in each group (animator+director, director+producer, scriptwriter+producer/director, or other combination)
4 people without projects (animator, director, producer or scriptwriter)
20 passive attendees
What are the objectives?
To understand what the story is
How to sell the story/idea
How to produce your own animation film
To develop an effective story and how to pitch it
To experience the selling and promoting of ideas for animation films
To explore the process of animation film production done by an international expert and producer
To explore opportunities for production exchange and circulation of audio visual products among the partners from abroad and from inside the country
To increase awareness of professional values and attitudes to be applied in tandem with the necessary professional skills and creative strategies, in order to exchange good practice
To develop 2D and 3D animation skills
To understand the importance of story board and its role in animation film making
Day 1 - Saturday, October 3 - 10am – 1pm (dur. 3 hrs, 15min break at 12pm)
How to develop an effective story and how to pitch it (Part 1)
Three projects will be selected from volunteers who do not mind their work being discussed in a public forum. These projects will not have been seen in advance by Max Howard. Each project will be given a number; the numbers will be drawn at the beginning of the session. There will then be a 15 minute break to allow the participants to prepare their pitch.
Max Howard will provide notes and suggestions directly applicable to each project to clarify story, theme and develop an effective plan to create a successful pitch.
Day 2 - Sunday, October 4 - 10am – 12pm (dur. 2 hrs)
How to develop an effective story and how to pitch it (Part 2)
On day two Max Howard will once again review the projects, provide a further set of suggestions. The projects will be pitched again, this time to a panel of judges, including Max Howard, Yoshi Tamura, Vrej Kassouny and Susie Wilson.
Day 3- Monday, October 5 - 10am – 1pm (dur. 3 hrs, 15min break at 12pm)
How to produce an independent animated film from development to distribution
Day 4- Tuesday, October 6 - 10am – 1pm (dur. 3 hrs, 15min break at 12pm)
A special screening of Max Howard’s latest film, Igor, released last year and currently in worldwide distribution
Igor is a playfully irreverent comedy that brings a new twist to the classic monster genre. In a world filled with Mad Scientists and Evil Inventions, one talented evil scientist's hunch-backed lab assistant has big dreams of becoming a Mad Scientist himself and winning the annual Evil Science Fair.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Max Howard and the film’s animation supervisor, Yoshi Tamura
Max Howard
President, Exodus Film Group
Max was formerly president of Warner Bros. Feature Animation and senior vice president of Disney Feature Animation. During his twelve years at Disney, Howard was one of the senior architects of that company's animation renaissance. He has collaborated on such animation successes as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin," "Pocahontas," "The Lion King," and “Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron." At Warner Bros., Max oversaw the award-winning animated feature "The Iron Giant" and the international hit "Space Jam." Most recently he was an Executive Producer on "Igor" for the Exodus Film Group, which also has "The Hero of Color City" and "Bunyan and Babe" currently in production and slated for release in 2011.
Max is a member of BAFTA , ASIFA and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (Oscars)
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Max was formerly president of Warner Bros. Feature Animation and senior vice president of Disney Feature Animation. During his twelve years at Disney, Howard was one of the senior architects of that company's animation renaissance. He has collaborated on such animation successes as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin," "Pocahontas," "The Lion King," and “Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron." At Warner Bros., Max oversaw the award-winning animated feature "The Iron Giant" and the international hit "Space Jam." Most recently he was an Executive Producer on "Igor" for the Exodus Film Group, which also has "The Hero of Color City" and "Bunyan and Babe" currently in production and slated for release in 2011.