(AFDA Students using
green screen in shooting their projects in studio to manipulate or create the
location they desire for their script)
AFDA (The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and
Live Performance) Durban will host an Open Day for prospective students on May 3.
The new campus, which opened in 2013 year, has also recently
invested over R1, 2 million in additional technical equipment and campus
facilities. This includes a new Surround Sound Suite which has been kitted with
the latest sound equipment enabling filmmakers to reproduce everyday sound effects
which are added to film, video and other mediums in post-production to enhance
audio quality.
An Editing & Visual Effects Suite has been installed,
which has the latest equipment for the integration of live-action footage and
generated imagery to create environments that look realistic, but would be
dangerous, expensive, impractical, or simply impossible to capture on film. The
Actor’s Studio has also seen an extension with a new fully equipped stage and
additional equipment.
In addition, the cinematography department has acquired the
latest camera equipment - some of the exciting gadgets include pocket sized
cinema cameras, a steadicam and a helicam for overhead filming.
Exciting times for prospective students as this Open Day
will provide them, (and their parents) and guests insights into the AFDA
programme, a tour around the facilities, meetings with current students and
introductions to the courses given by various AFDA staff.
AFDA has a heavy-weight academic staff complement who have
worked in the film and live performance industries. Franco Human, an
experienced producer and film maker, is Dean, with film-maker Richard Green
Head of the Film School, director and academic Lloyd O’Connor, Head of the Live
Performance School, scriptwriter and film-maker Janet van Eeden (whose short
film A Shot at the Big Time has just
been selected for the Cannes Film Festival), as production course administrator
and script writing lecturer and Laszlo Bene, a producer and director who has
worked on a number of national and international productions as Head of
Television.
AFDA’s Open Day will take place on May 3 from 10h00 to 12h00
at the Campus in Glen Anil, Durban North. Prospective students can contact
Durban-based Marketing Officer, Milena Gevers, for more information or to book
an interview for on the day on 031 569 2252 or email: milenag@afda.co.za
For more information about the school go to www.afda.co.za or on twitter @AFDADurban.
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