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10/10/06
TRAINEES SEEKING NEW DIRECTION
Reprinted courtesy the Dominion Post
Attracted by the bright lights of Wellywood, people from around the world are enrolling at the New Zealand Film and Television School.
Here's a challenge. Write a script for a five-minute film, direct actors for day, and then spend the next fortnight doing every other job that goes into making a film.
That was the task facing everyone from Crew 12 at The New Zealand Film and Television School’s Crew 12 recently, ending with the screening of the resulting 16 five-minute dramas to a packed audience at Wellington’s City Gallery.
It was encouraging to see works that displayed an increasing confidence in mastering the technical aspects of storytelling, Film School head tutor, director John Reid, said.
With actors from Toi Whakaari, the New Zealand Drama School, the students each had one day to direct their own scripts, then for the rest of the two-week shoot they spent a day each in roles such as sound technician, camera operator and grip, and in the production and art departments.
Directing the actors from Toi Whakaari has been 26-year old former Belgian journalist Bruno du Bois' favourite Film School role so far. He also enjoyed working with the film industry professionals who supervised the shoot – people such as art director Joe Bleakley and directors of photography Richard Bluck and Phil Burchell.
David Swanepoel, also 26, trained as a lawyer in South Africa, but the prospect of training as a film-maker in Peter Jackson country drew him across the world in search of experience and training in Wellywood. His previously undiscovered script-writing abilities have come to the fore at the Film School, and Crew 12 is soon to produce another short film written by Swanepoel.
His flatmate Michael Robins, most of whose family is in the film industry, enjoyed operating the equipment and trying out different film crew roles. Unlike many of his classmates he wants to produce rather than direct, he says.
The class is about to start on its grad films – the three short films which are the culmination of the year’s work and which will be completed shortly before the class graduates.