Fall classes start this week! Come get your film out of your head and onto the screen!

• FILMMAKING 1
  SEPT 25 - OCT 30
  Apply now for Joan's core Filmmaking Intensive.
• MASTER CLASS + MEMBERSHIP
  Every Thursday @ 7:30pm
  (Drop-Ins Welcome!)

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• What:

This is the 5 week Core Filmmaking Workshop designed for creatives and execs who wish to:

- Hone the vision for the film
- Bring life and clarity to the script and story structure
- Work more efficiently with actors
- Dynamically block and pace scenes
- Connect to the feeling, emotional depth, and rhythm of the film
- Put the film on its feet prior to production

14 Technique Classes allow you to dive into the essentials of filmmaking craft.
3 in-class rehearsals allow you to work directly with actors and put your scene on its feet.

Exercises allow you to feel your film as one organic whole, bringing a musical aliveness to your work. Then, with new awareness, artists bring story, performance, staging and visual style together to reveal the film's life in unexpectedly visceral ways.

Classes investigate:

Overall Vision:
Clarify your theme and express it in direct, emotional language. Use this clarity to focus the rewrite of your screenplay, pitch the film, guide actors and spark your creative team.

Script Structure:
Examine script analysis, emotional logic, character journey, music, pace, and rhythm to strengthen your screenplay.

Acting Craft:
Physicalize and internalize the core concepts of action, obstacle, and intuition. Breakdown scenes, prepare rehearsals, create believable worlds, characters,
relationships, block organically, and pace effectively. Note: You will sweat.

Rehearsal:
Use what you've learned in the technique classes to direct a scene of your choice with top-notch actors. Explore new tools to unleash the unexpected and realize the vision of your scene.

• When:

  Wed 9/25/13 - Wed 10/30/13
  
  There are 17 sessions of 4-8 hours each.
  Classes meet 3 times a week: Wednesday night and Saturday and Sunday days.
  **please note: these dates are subject to change

• Where:

  The Lab will take place in our new home. A gorgeous 4,000 sq. ft warehouse in the middle of Hollywood!
  

the Space
6608 Lexington Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038 (Maplink)
www.6608lexington.com

• Who: 

Filmmaking 1 is designed for maximum individual attention and hands-on participation. It is limited to 10 participants and is open to all Filmmaking Professionals:

- Directors

- Writers

- Actors

- Producers

- Cinematographers

- Executives

- Editors

- Production Designers

• Tuition:

  This is a professional filmmaking course. Its intimate size is designed for maximum hands on participation in order to bring out the best in you and your film. For more details and sign up, email us at   assistant@joanscheckel.com  

Flexible, weekly, drop in Scene Study class for actors, writers and directors. This class combines hands on scene work and technique study to get you on your feet. Practice the tools you know and learn new ones weekly. All scenes, all the time. Act. Direct. Rehearse. Bring a blanket to sit on, water, snacks, pad, pen and a scene you want to work on. Dress to move. Wear sweats and sneakers. Take your craft to the next level.

• When:

  Thursdays 7:30pm-10:30pm
  
  

• Where:

  The Lab will take place in our new home. A gorgeous 4,000 sq. ft warehouse in the middle of Hollywood!
  

the Space
6608 Lexington Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038 (Maplink)
www.6608lexington.com

• How:

Class size is limited. For details and sign up, call us at (323) 803-5039 or Email us

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Joan Scheckel and her Filmmaking Labs are known throughout Hollywood and the international film world as the crucial force behind the most exciting films being made today. Over the past decade, Joan's work as a writer, director, actor, consultant and teacher has contributed to the development of over 402 films, more than half of which are completed or are in the works. All together, the films have earned 670 award nominations, and scored 358 wins (including major nods from the Academy).

Having worked with so many of the vital new voices in cinema, including Niki Caro (Academy Award nominated WHALE RIDER; THE VINTNERʼS LUCK- which Joan co-wrote), Mike Mills (Academy Award winning BEGINNERS - which Joan Executive Produced), Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Academy Award winning LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE), Rupert Sanders (Academy Award Nominated SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN), Mark Romanek (Spirit Award Nominated NEVER LET ME GO; ONE HOUR PHOTO), Richard Press (Spirit Award Nominated BILL CUNNINGHAM NY), Sacha Gervasi (Spirit Award Winning ANVIL: THE STORY OF ANVIL), Alison Maclean (Venice Little Golden Lion Winner JESUSʼ SON), Jake Scott (Sundance Award Nominated WELCOME TO THE RILEYS), Mark Ruffalo (Sundance Award Winning SYMPATHY FOR DELICIOUS), Miranda July (Golden Berlin Bear Nominated, THE FUTURE), Nick Jarecki (Golden Globe Nominated ARBITRAGE), and Jill Soloway (2013 Sundance Best Director Winner AFTERNOON DELIGHT) Joan's sphere of influence continues to expand.