Film Making Course, September 2013, Devon, England

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The exciting developments in the Christian Film Making industry in the US are making the Gospel message, and also, just plain information or encouragement, more readily distributable. You-tube and other websites are being increasingly used for this purpose. Christians turned their backs on the opportunities which Hollywood afforded for shaping society righteously and much ground has been lost. Now is the time to find out how we can help recover that ground. 

Ken Lawrence is a homeschooling Pastor who has been running annual film camps at his farm in Colorado. A couple of years ago he and his daughter stayed in England en-route to India on a mission-trip. We got talking about films and I was quite excited by the possibility of introducing the home-schoolers in the UK to the concept.  Ken is only too please to share the benefit of his hard-won-experience (so you don't need to repeat the same mistakes!) and offer insights into how he has solved technical challenges in all aspects of film making. 

The thing I love about film-making is that it involves very many different skills, and therefore individuals. Think about the credits which roll by on a film you have watched. There is much scope for creativity and learning through things going wrong and therefore offers a unique character-building opportunity: team-work and camaraderie are going to be some of the most valuable aspects of the project.

If you book for one member of your family, that family member will be actively involved in the project during the week, as well as being clued-up on the theory having studied the course. For the rest, the usual camping fee (£110 per family) will be payable (Tracy van den Broek will be taking the bookings: email tracyvdb@gmail.com). If an individual on the training programme is not coming to the camp with a family, he/she will need a tent etc. and I will cook for him/her—the cost will be £30. If more than one family member wishes to be enrolled and active during the week there will be a slight reduction in price but please bear in mind that, with the best will in the world, the airfares must still be paid. Numbers of active participants (i.e. those getting their hands on the equipment and ordering folks about!) are limited to 15. Those who are enrolled will be referred to as the A group.  It might be possible (once the airfares are paid!) for there to be a B group who might be official assistants.

The individuals enrolling must be aged 15 or over. A certificate of completion will be issued to each member of the A group at the end of the week.

All the rest of us might be useful as extras at some point or other—and otherwise we will be arranging things such as Shakespeare reading, music, dancing, walks etc. Ken has kindly agreed to offer us some expert film-critiquing insights. We hope to designate some films ahead of time for families to watch and for Ken and Zack to point out natty little film-making techniques which you'd have missed otherwise and—more importantly—giving us a pair of Christian-worldview-spectacles through which to view films productively.

http://www.christianfilmmakerscamp.com/uk2013

If you know of anyone who is already involved in Christian film-making and from whom it might be possible to hire lighting and other bulky equipment, please forward me the details. There is a great deal of practical stuff to sort out for this week if we are to get the very best out of it

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Blessings on you and yours from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, our Powerful Saviour.

Tracy van den Broek

For more information email: tracyvdb@gmail.com