MAPS FILM SCHOOL 2012/13 -- ADVANCED COURSES , DIPLOMA & ADV. DIP

Watch Here new MAPS Film School Vid! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE8bIv63pwY
Great little Info Video about MAPS Film School and its Alumni- including new clip highlights.
Watch Here Brand new MAPS Film School LONGER Vid! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfF8qofO18Y
This is the longer version with 2min clips of each person

Information NIGHT at MAPS Film School Wednesday Feb 1st 2012 - YOU ARE MOST WELCOME, bring friends.
at 6.30 PM at MAPS Film School building [ask at office.].
APPLICATIONS FOR 2012 [new closing date Thursday Feb 2] AVAILABLE BY this PDF DOWNLOAD  MAPSApplicn2012.pdf
This is a course where you make your own films and where many successful media careers begin.

MAPS FS Projects now on YOUTUBE watch Here MAPS YouTube

WHAT IS MAPS? MEDIA ARTS PRODUCTION SKILLS FILM SCHOOL

The Media Arts Production Skills FILM SCHOOL program at Hamilton College has a history of preparing filmmakers that spans more than twenty years. Over that time it has produced the ruling share of technically trained film and video specialists engaged on film shoots and operating in television stations and productExion companies in South Australia.

In the initial Diploma course any given student will work on five short original projects. In the company of artistic collaborators they will experience making a pitch, drawing up a shot list, storyboarding, obtaining sponsorship, casting, finding locations, covering the action with camera and microphone, and assembling sound and image to a finished stage fit for public screening.

The curriculum is practical in material and method. The theory component serves the hands-n project work. There are no academically oriented exercises. Instead vital craft skills are acquired in the problem-solving climate generated by applied creative assignments. A show reel of the annual production slate authored on DVD by class members is the immediate end product of these efforts. The long-term developmental rewards come with the media career that can follow such a solid grounding.

Media Arts Production Skills - News

MAPS Film School Student does well at recent [Nov5] Australian Cinematographers Society Awards.
Gerald Wiblin, a current Diploma Student won a Silver Student Award for his Cinematography [on Super 8!] on
Gemma Salamon's "Dancer in the Garden" and also a Media Resourse Centre's Encouragement Award for Best
Student Cinematographer [$3,000 hire prize] for Adam Camporele's "The Core".
No other Student Awards were issued.

MAPS FILM SCHOOL DOES VERY WELL AT SASA AWARDS.
April 2011 SASA Award Winners the full list of awards with brackets next to MAPS ..
1. Pro AV Award for Best Non-Narrative Winner: A Moment of Grace [MAPS ALUMNI]
2.Total Photographic Award for Innovation in Digital Media Winner: Portrait Mode
3. The Cutting Room Award for Best Music Video Winner: Frown (by the Giveaways) [MAPS ALUMNI]
4. GooRoo Animation Award for Best Animation Winner: Sumo Lake
5. AIDC Award for Best Documentary Winner: Chasing Shadows
6. Best FX Award for Best Comedy Winner: Cropped
7. Oasis Post Award for Best Drama Winner: The Kiss [MAPS ALUMNI]
8. Mercury Cinema Award for Best Feature Film Winner: Life in Movement [MAPS ALUMNI]
9. SASA People?s Choice Award Winner: Murder Mouth
10. The Carclew Youth Arts MRC Emerging Filmmaker Award Winner: Madeleine Parry
11. The Independent Arts Foundation MRC Emerging Producer Awads Winner: Rose Tucker
12. The SASA Award for Best Production Design Winner: Jessie Mills for Aurora [MAPS ALUMNI]
13. The Chapel Lane Award for Best Sound Design Winner: Michael Darren for Paper Planes
14. The Music SA Award for Best Composition Winner: Christopher Larkin for Toot Toot
15. The Canon Australia Award for Best Cinematography Winner: Nick Matthews for The Kiss [MAPS ALUMNI]
16. The Photographic Wholesalers Award for Best Editing Winner: Cleland Jones for A Moment of Grace [MAPS ALUMNI]
17. The Actors Ink Award for Best Performance Winner: Chantal Contouri for Unfinished Thoughts
18. The SASA Best Screenplay Award Winner: Ashlee Page for The Kiss [MAPS ALUMNI]
19. The Picture Hire Australia Award for Best Direction Winner: Ashlee Page for The Kiss [MAPS ALUMNI]
20. The SAFC Award for Best Short Film Winner: The Kiss [MAPS ALUMNI]

10 out of the 20 Awards going to MAPS Alumni either directly or throu critical association aint bad and i dont know all of this info.. Special congrats YET AGAIN !!! to Ashlee & Sonya et al. our yearly intake is 30 not the hundreds from the other campuses, and we have negligible drop out,[another testimony]

A Tribute to Paul Lawrence by David Donaldson
and thanks go to him for the donation of a Super8 camera and tripod from the estate of this much esteemed man, Paul Lawrence.
Paul Lawrence's life was directed to one single goal: perfection in film presentation. Even while studying to be a dentist, Paul was soaking up know-how in the projection rooms of the popular cinemas in Adelaide's CBD (none left now), so became a relief operator. As the Picture Show Man, he offered screenings to any group with a film to show and acquired a range of quality gear. Paul loved the Bell & Howell 16mm model 1568 with fierce white light from the EZG discharge lamp, astonished audiences with a 20ft wide image from his Elmo GS1200 Xenon with ultrasharp f1.1 lens.

Adelaide community cinemas were Paul?s happy ground after dental hours. When Media Resource Centre moved into a purpose-built arts centre (thanks, Arts SA), Paul was at the 35mm and 16mm in the 186-seat Mercury. He projected whatever came from wherever around the world for the Adelaide Film Festival at the Palace. At the art-deco Capri at Goodwood, Paul was in his element with the two 35mm alongside a Fumeo 16mm, the lighting swirling and curtains swishing for the magnificent WurliTzer around the big stage. Giving up dentistry, Paul made himself expert on presentation for special purposes like double-head projection in the South Australian Film Corporation studio at Hendon.

Not for Paul Lawrence the five sessions a day, everything on a platter, skating down a multiplex projection tunnel. He gave his skills to community film showing, generous to amateurs, tolerant of bumbling event managers.
"Old Projectionists Never Die, They Just Change Over" - Paul Lawrence.