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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