Activity 101 is a hands on, friendly-competetive short-film challenge where the objective is to utilise all the skills learned during the series of 101 sessions and make a short film in a short space of time. Similar rules to a typical short-film challenge will apply, and submissions will have to be presented at the next meeting, which falls on Thursday 30th July 2009 at 20.00hrs.

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Following on from our 2009 basic Teaching and Learning programme (101 series) members were encouraged to get together in teams of 1-3 and create a short film of about 30 seconds - 3 minutes in length, using randomly assigned elements and the knowledge they had gained from the programme.

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Full Details:

Both our members and the general public are invited to take part, in teams of one to three people, to make a film of between 30 seconds and 3 minutes in length. Films must be ready for presentation by 20.00hrs on Thursday the 6th of August 2009.

Equipment and resources will be available to members on the start date. Whilst participants are encouraged to keep things fairly simple for the purposes of this short exercise, any format  and scope of recording is permitted. Please see below for the detailed guidelines:

• The official start is 09.00hrs on Saturday 1st August 2009 at RISC in Reading.
• Teams must be of between 1 and 3 people (not counting actors)
• Running time must be no less than thirty seconds and no more than three minutes (including credits)
• The film must contain two of the following elements:
• A randomly assigned piece of dialogue
• A randomly assigned prop
• NB Randomly assigned elements are available at 09.00hrs on the start day or via email.
• A narrative element derived from the 'Kuleshov effect' movie (options can be chosen from the Cloud Scriptwriting blog)
• The film must be finished and ready for presentation to the group by 20.00hrs on Thursday 6th August 2009.
• Please master onto DVD-Video or export to a high-quality QuickTime file format (.mov)

This marks the culmination of the 101 sessions.

See the Press Release here.

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Part of TeamTV's move to a more structured teaching and learning approach, we are going back to basics and making sure we're improving our skills week on week. This is starting with our series of 101 courses designed to clarify and exemplify the basic and critical principles of good filmmaking practice.