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Filmmaking Workshop with Sharon Shattuck (Registration Required)

Feb
08
2013

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• Host Department: Program in the Environment
• Date: 02/08/2013
• Time: 10:00 AM
  
  
• Location: Undergraduate Science Building (Room TBD) There will be an afternoon offering as well.
  
  
• Description:

  REGISTER HERE: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/pite/events/studentmediaartsworkshops/workshopsledbyaccomplishedmediaprofessionalsclickhereforregistration_ci

  Workshop format: Sharon will use examples to show how effective filmmaking is used to motivate people to feel different emotions and even modify their behavior. 

  
  Who should attend this workshop: Any student who wants to effectively communicate the need for environmental behavior change. Applies to students interested in environmental policy, education, behavior change, communication/marketing, business, or community outreach. No film or editing experience or equipment is required to attend this workshop.
  

  From this workshop, students will: 
  1. Work together as a group to conduct an "expert interview" and incorporate stock footage to create a short film
  2. Learn about the elements needed to create a film
  3. Engage in discussion about the important role that film and creativity play in communicating complex environmental problems and their potential solutions
  4. Learn how PitE students enter the workforce with the ability to do many different types of jobs. 

   

  Sharon Shattuck is a director-producer-animator.  She is a PitE alumna (class of 2006), with degrees in forest ecology and biology, as well as a graduate degree in journalism.  Her thesis film, Parasites: A User’s Guide (2010), premiered at the Traverse City Film Festival, and went on to screen at festivals internationally.  Her award-winning animation Whale Fall premiered on Radiolab and is currently in festivals.  Sharon has recent multimedia credits with Slate, The New York Times, PBS, ProPublica, Face the Facts USA, On The Media, Radiolab, and various films produced by Wicked Delicate Films, including The City Dark, Truck Farm, The Search For General Tso, Missing Modernist, and The Greening of Qatar. She is also the Art Director at Explainer Music.
  Sharon has led similar workshops before and looks forward to working with her alma mater.