Directing Films with Emotional Impact -Weekender Workshop

Directing Films and Screen Plays with Emotional Impact

Course details

Want to direct a film or screen play? Not sure how to get what you want from your crew and actors? Then join this workshop. Chase Johnston Lynch, a seasoned Screen Writer, Film and Music Video director will be at hand to give you the breadth of his knowledge. 

What will you do?

  • Practical sessions to understand why you are here as a director and what established directors can teach you.
  • Learn style and impact that matters to you and has your own stamp on it
  • Connecting with the actors and communicating emotion
  • Making non-dialogue scenes work
  • What is your genre?
  • Camera placement
  • Location technicalities and the 4 wall exercise for blocking
  • Job roles in your team
  • Storyboarding for emotion, body language and establishing shots
  • Use what you have learnt to shoot a short scene from a script you have been assigned.

Workshop is on 16th and 17th May 12 noon to15.00. Price £25

Location: The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, Liverpool.

All deadlines must be met.

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Deep Dive Directing – The Theatre Directors Tool Bag (Intermediate)

Deep Dive - The Theatre Directors Tool Bag (intermediate)

Course details

Jay McWinen is the Facilitator for this intermediate workshop. Jay is a theatre practitioner, acting lecturer and musical theatre director

Jay shares his experience from working as a director, agent, academic lecturer and community engagement practitioner to inspire development of your current directing skills

Sunday 29th March 13.00 to 15.00 at the Studio Beyond
What to expect:
  • New management skills in the rehearsal room
  • Using ideas from leading professionals to enrich your directing practise
  • Learn new tips and pro tools
  • Increase your creativity as a director

please bring a note book and pen, be on time and wear comfortable clothes

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Deep Dive Directing – Adapting your Skills (beginners)

Deep Dive - Adapting your skills in order to direct a play (Beginners)

Course details

Kevin Foott is the Facilitator for this beginners workshop. You may have skills in other areas of theatre and this workshop helps you to adapt those skills and give you the confidence so you can direct a play.

Kevin came to directing through his love of acting and public speaking.

He has been involved in both the professional and community world of theatre for over two decades having worked at the Liverpool Merseyside Theatres Trust; Everyman and Playhouse theatres both front of house in many roles and workshopping with adults with learning difficulties and pensioners. In the community he has acted, including as Mr Peachum in the Threepenny Opera at the Edinburgh Fringe and directed; including sold out shows at the Unity and award-winning shows at the Leverhulme Festival.

Sunday 22nd March 12.00 to 16.00 at the Studio Below
What to expect:
  • a skills audit to see what tools you already have
  • Picking plays that play to your likes and strengths
  • How to make a healthy connection with the writer
  • Can a screen play become a stage play?
  • The peaks and pitfalls of putting a play on

Remember: Be on time, where comfortable clothes and bring a notebook and pen.

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Deep Dive Directing – What Moves you is Movement

Deep Dive - What Moves you is Movement

Course details

Miriam Mussa is the Facilitator for this practical 3 hour workshop that helps you to understand how blocking and movement are the key tools to storytelling.

Miriam brings extensive experience in directing, touring theatre and leading her community and engagement programmes. Her practice is rooted in clarity, care and making meaningful connection with audiences.
Sunday 22nd Feb at 13.00 to 16.00 at the Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, Liverpool. Only £15
 
What to expect:
  • Looking at how actors are moved and placed to tell a story without words
  • How using movement can help reduce the word count
  • For directors: deepening knowledge of direction through physical storytelling
  • For actors: what a director may expect of you in the physical sense. Make clearer and more intentional physical choices in rehearsal
  • Strengthen narrative clarity, presence and audience connection.
This workshop is suitable for actors, directors, artistic leads and writer/directors
 
Please bring a note book and wear comfortable clothes.
The workshop will take place at the Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, Liverpool
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Write it, Shoot it, Show it – a film making weekend workshop

A film making weekend workshop

Do you want the full experience of making a film from writing it to the finished product? The Studio Beyond has three industry professionals to guide you through the process.

Course details

Choose to take part as a writer, crew or actor.

Ted Gray will facilitate the writing section, Blake Emery The filming and Kieth Hyland  the Acting.

Ideal for beginners to the world of film and screen

The finished film will be premiered at Liverpool Fringe and the film will be entered into other festivals.

 

This course will run over the two days of the weekend 23rd – 24th August .  It will be held at The Studio Beyond (63 wood Street Liverpool). Course times will vary depending on your course choice. Please bring your own lunch or some money to buy your lunch in the surrounding shops.

Cost: £20

 

To enter contact: Blake@studiobelow.co.uk

Shakesperience! Understanding the Bard and performing his plays

A workshop exploring the performers relationship with Shakespeares language for beginners and for professionals as part of the working actor's workshops.

Course details

This 6-part course is delivered by Molly Farquhar (beginners) and Flloyd Kennedy (professionals)

For the Professionals:

This immersive course into the world and words of Shakespeare will give you more confidence to audition. Exploring the fool, hero, huntress, mother, sage, trickster and many more.

Using Q scripts and the original Shakespeare Co’s ‘rules of the game.’ we’ll be playful with Shakespeare and see if the Bard is playful with us.

For Beginners:

An introduction into the world of Shakespeare and his text. By week six, performers will leave with a polished monologue that they can perform at audition

 

Price £50 per person. 

What you will learn

The six sessions will cover the following elements:

  • Owning the Text
  • Working with Lambic/Archetypes
  • Understanding the text
  • Working with Cue scripts
Dates:
12pm to 2pm, Sept 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th and Oct 12th and 19th

 

This will lead to a showcase performance at the Studio Beyond 

We'd love to hear from you

email: info@makeitwrite.org
The Studio Beyond,
63 Wood Street,
Liverpool.

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Adapting a Book (A Tag Team Challenge)

Adapting books with Sharon Colpman

Course details

William Booth is a local author writing about growing up in Liverpool as a working class lad with an entrepreneurial spirit. It is essentially a love story to his wife and Liverpool itself. 

Participants will be given a section of the book to adapt for stage  and will be guided via workshops and zoom meetings to understand how a creative writer’s room works and to meet deadlines and work as a team and individually. 

Editing written work and working with a producer and a director and dramaturg is central to this Tag Team Challenge.

Writers have been selected but we will be looking for more people with other skills, later in the project. 

The course is designed to run over 5 months with group meetings to suit the participants at Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street and via zoom for mentoring purposes

Dates between: 5/2/25 and 30/6/25 

We'd love to hear from you

email: info@makeitwrite.org
The Studio Below,
39 Rodney Street,
Liverpool.
L1 9EN

LGBTQ+ Theatre Making – MIW and Grin Theatre.

Producing a Queer Christmas Carol - Making Good LGBTQ+ Theatre - as part of the Queer Words Weekend

 Kiefer Wes Williams (Grin Theatre Producer) and Sharon Colpman (MIW Producer) are your facilitators to bring you a workshop that will give you a better understanding of acting, writing, directing and producing Queer Theatre, by adapting Dickens’ A Christmas Carol from a Queer perspective.

Participants will:

  • Examine the Ghost of LGBTQ Theatre past, and it’s influences on modern theatre
  • Understand the importance of diverse voices in playwriting and theatre
  • Looking at the current LGBTQ+ topics of theatre present
  • Create an ideas for how to address queer theatre for the future
  • We will put together ideas for making a Queer Christmas Carol.

Course details

This course will run on 31st August 2pm to 5pm. It will be held at The Studio Below (39 Rodney St. Liverpool)

Doors will be open from 1.30pm where refreshments will be available, for a prompt start at 2pm. The course finishes at 5pm. Please bring a note book and wear comfortable clothing.

All participants are welcome

The course is only £10

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Directors Chair Part 1

Directors Chair Part 1 (Stage)

Kiefer Wes Williams provides a 6 week course  with lots of the basic information  and skills to start you out in the directors chair. The course can be paid in one full payment of 65 pounds or three instalments of 22pounds.

What will you Learn?
* Differences between stage and screen
* The director’s toolbox
* Role of the director
* Knowing the actor, writer and producer
* Directing styles
* The audition process
* Improvisation
* What is blocking?
* Responsibilities
* Stage work and rehearsal process

Course details

six sessions starting from Saturday 21st October from 10.00 to 12.00. Occurring every Saturday

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Directors Chair Part 2

Director's Chair Part 2 (Stage)

Kiefer Wes Williams is back with the second half of his course aimed at people that have no formal training in directing.  Ideal for writers wishing to direct their own work, amateur directors from drama groups, actors that have been thinking of stepping up into the directors chair or anyone with a love of stage direction. 

In this section of the course you’ll work towards being an assistant director on a Make it Write Productions show, should you wish to do so, or using your skills in the real world of theatre. Kiefer will build your confidence, practise and technique.

It is better to have completed part one of the course before signing up for this event.

Course details

This course will run as an 8 session course from Saturday 24th February to Saturday 13th April. It will be held at The Studio Below (39 Rodney St. Liverpool)

At 10am to 12 noon

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