Filming Literature DV Workshop Thursday 8 March 2007
Filming Literature Student Competition
Create a Digital Video Film in a Day Thursday 8 March 10 am. Oxford University Computing Services is organising a one-day workshop for *students* who want to enter the Filming Literature competition 2007. The course is free, and will take attendees through the basic skills of making a digital video film. At the beginning of the day we will assume you have never made a film before. By the end of the day you will have taken a script, storyboarded it, filmed it, edited it, and produced a digital copy available for web broadcast. The resulting short film will be entered for the Filming Literature competition 2007, which has a winning prize of £250, and two runners up prizes. Spaces on this course are very limited so please book early! Booking should be done by groups of 2 or 3 students as you will be expected to film, edit, direct, maybe even act, etc so you will need a team of people and to select a piece of literature to film. How it works part. 3., Select a genre - either Comedy or Horror/Thriller 4., Group leader to email peter.robinson@oucs.ox.ac.uk, subject DV Workshop, giving email details of the team members and the text and genre of their film, 5., If places are available you will then be expected to submit a short synopsis script 6., That's it turn-up on the day at OUCS, for 10am. On the course you will receive training, and be supplied with all the kit you need (cameras, editing machines, etc). You will film the dramatic piece and then edit it in the afternoon.
Most of the following texts can be obtained from the Chadwyck Healey Database, Literature Online. Use the Quick Search feature on the Literature Online site to find the full text prose. You will be asked to submit a short synopsis script to be eligible for the workshop. The short films should be around 5 minutes maximum length. See http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/ Previous entries for the film competition can be seen online: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/dv/competitions.html The Princess of Cleves 1678 Madame de Lafayette Robinson Crusoe 1719 Daniel Defoe Tom Jones 1749 Henry Fielding Candide 1759 Voltaire The Sorrows of Young Werther 1774 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pride and Prejudice 1813 Jane Austen Waverley 1814 Sir Walter Scott Emma 1816 Jane Austen Frankenstein 1818 Mary Shelley The Last of the Mohicans 1826 James Fenimore Cooper The Red and the Black 1830 Stendhal Le Pere Goriot 1835 Honore de Balzac Dead Souls 1842 Nikolai Gogol The Three Musketeers 1844 Alexandre Dumas Wuthering Heights 1847 Emily Bronte Jane Eyre 1847 Charlotte Bronte The Scarlet Letter 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne Moby-Dick 1851 Herman Melville Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe Germinal 1855 Emile Zola Madame Bovary 1857 Gustave Flaubert Oblomov 1859 Ivan Goncharov The Woman in White 1860 Wilkie Collins Fathers and Sons 1862 Ivan Turgenev Les Miserables 1862 Victor Hugo Anna Karenina 1877 Leo Tolstoy The Portrait of a Lady 1881 Henry James Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884 Mark Twain Hunger 1890 Knut Hamsun Tess of the D'Urbervilles 1891 Thomas Hardy The Red Badge of Courage 1895 Stephen Crane Dracula 1897 Bram Stoker The Awakening 1899 Kate Chopin Buddenbrooks 1901 Thomas Mann The Hound of Baskervilles 1902 Arthur Conan Doyle The Ambassadors 1903 Henry James Nostromo 1904 Joseph Conrad A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1916 James Joyce Women in Love 1920 D. H. Lawrence Ulysses 1922 James Joyce The Magic Mountain 1924 Thomas Mann A Passage to India 1924 E. M. Forster The Trial 1925 Franz Kafka The Sound and the Fury 1929 William Faulkner Berlin Alexanderplatz 1929 Alfred Doblin The Tale of Genji 11th Century Murasaki Shikibu Clarissa 1747-48 Samuel Richardson Tristram Shandy 1760-67 Laurence Sterne The Betrothed 1827, 1840 Alessandro Manzoni The Pickwick Papers 1836-67 Charles Dickens Vanity Fair 1847-48 William Makepeace Thackeray Bleak House 1852-53 Charles Dickens Great Expectations 1860-61 Charles Dickens The Last Chronicle of Barset 1866-67 Anthony Trollope Middlemarch 1871-72 George Eliot In Search of Lost Time 1913-27 Marcel Proust Petersburg 1916/1922 Andrey Bely List of Texts for the workshop