Storylab Malaysia 2017
The Content Malaysia Pitching Centre is an initiative designed to help Malaysian content creators and producers create good content with good entertainment values and is commercially appealing to viewers and the market. To achieve this goal, Malaysia will have to have good scriptwriters and producers.
CMPC FINAS – Content Malaysia Pitching Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 14th to 16th June 2017
The workshop was offered through the CMPC FINAS – Content Malaysia Pitching Center in Kuala Lumpur between the 14th – 16th June 2017.
The Content Malaysia Pitching Centre is an initiative designed to help Malaysian content creators and producers create good content with good entertainment values and is commercially appealing to viewers and the market. To achieve this goal, Malaysia will have to have good scriptwriters and producers.
To achieve the objective of the good scriptwriters and producers, the centre provides the industry with a physical facility where they can gather to attend workshops and master classes, participate in industry and community events, and interact with right buyers and distributors.
Aims and Objectives of the Workshop
The aim of the workshops from the participant perspective was to develop participants’ creative engagement with story for the narrative moving image. Participants had an opportunity to build their authorial confidence and explore methods and techniques to enhance their ability to articulate their personal vision. During the 3 days of the workshop, each participant had an opportunity to develop a piece of new work for the narrative moving image screen. This was fact and/or fiction for a feature film or a short film. Projects were developed to a stage where there was a solid foundation for further development outside the context of the workshop. The emphasis was placed on helping develop original creatively independent work. Participants were able to take advantage of interacting with, and taking feedback from, peers as well as an international group of researchers/workshop leaders and eventually to take advantage of engaging with other creative filmmakers across three continents.
Round table introduction from all participants, including brief maximum 3 minute long clips or other samples of previous work supplied in advance by participants.
Participants in groups of 3, moderated by a researcher, do 1 shot visual interviews with each other of no more than 3 minutes in length. Guidance will be given to interviewers about subject areas to be covered. These interviews are then shown to the whole class.
Round table discussion of themes emerging from introductions and interviews focusing on common opportunities, aspirations, challenges and understanding of context and forms.
Creativity and story: an in class practical exercise in which each participant develops a new idea with interactive participation of researchers and other participants.
Each participants spends time outside tutorials developing ideas individually.
Each participant presents their developed idea to class for discussion.
Round table discussion discussing impact of new developed ideas.
Summarising workshop experience and learning.
Please Note:
Note: Throughout the workshop, participants were encouraged to use the secure web site facility for the project to share and communicate their creative experience and to engage in ongoing debates. These functions were available and encouraged well beyond the actual workshops themselves, thereby facilitating an ongoing dialogue with both local peers and new international peers taking part in the project’s other workshops in different continents.
Detailed Workshop Schedule.
