{"id":16033,"date":"2016-03-02T14:51:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T19:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=16033"},"modified":"2016-03-02T14:51:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T19:51:24","slug":"16033_workshops-introduce-scm-film-students-to-career-paths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/2016\/03\/02\/16033_workshops-introduce-scm-film-students-to-career-paths\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshops Introduce SCM Film Students to Career Paths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences sponsored two workshops in the School of Communication and Media to introduce possible areas of employment to Filmmaking students.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span>Martha Pinson ran a hands-on, intensive <em>Script Supervisor Training Workshop<\/em> on February 17.&nbsp; Pinson, who has worked as a script supervisor for such names as Martin Scorsese, Brian DePalma, Sidney Lumet, Milos Forman among others over the last 35 years.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Some of her credits include: \u201cBoardwalk Empire,\u201d \u201cShutter Island,\u201d \u201cLife on Mars,\u201d and \u201cLaw and Order,\u201d to name a few.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Pinson currently works as a film director.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>On February 25,&nbsp;foley artist Mark Costanza introduced SCM students to the <em>Art of Foley<\/em> and his partner George demonstrated the recording of foleys at their New Jersey studio. A few select students will go back to Costanza\u2019s C-5 studio in Montvale to record sound effects for their thesis films. &nbsp;Post production instructor Dan Loewenthal and sound design instructor Bill Lacey&nbsp;brought their classes to the C-5 studio.<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>One more workshop is planned for Wednesday, March 2. Production Designer Naomi Shohan and director Tony Drazan will be conducting a workshop about production design and how a designer works with a director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>Previous workshops included such notable talent as Skip Livesay, academy award winning sound designer, Richard Topham, sound recordist and owner of Pro Sound; gaffer Andy Day, Ben Wolf; Sean Baker, the director of \u201cTangerine;\u201d Director of Photography Eric Nelson; and, Kenneth Golden, production manager and line producer for \u201cGhostbusters.\u201d<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\">The workshops were made possible thanks to a $10,000 grant from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to the SCM film program<span style=\"color: red\"> <\/span>to conduct below-the-line workshops for SCM students, a forum that would give students exposure to other jobs that might be possible.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>All of the workshops include a great deal of hands-on experience and provide students with invaluable connections with working professionals within the industry.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>One of the goals is also to show how pairs of professionals work together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences sponsored two workshops in the School of Communication and Media to introduce possible areas of employment to Filmmaking students.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":116033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-communication-and-media-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}