ANMT’s sixth annual MUSICAL THEATRE BOOT CAMP presents:
WRITE AND FILM AN INTERNET MUSICAL THIS SUMMER
Instructor: Scott Guy
Four Sunday afternoons 2pm to 5pm; plus shoot dates
July 24, 31, August 7, 14; plus Sept. 18 & 25 for shoot
Course Fee: $500 (Early Bird/ANMT Member Fee: $475)
This summer…write an internet movie musical and get it filmed and onto YouTube! Here’s how it works.
Week One - Sunday July 24 - 2-5pm - We’ll discuss logistics, location, mechanics of the shoot, as well as the artform and your musical itself.
Week Two - Sunday July 31 - 2-5pm - Bring in an outline for your musical. We’ll discuss form, content, shape, character, story, and casting
Week Three - Sunday August 7 - 2-5pm - Bring in the first draft of your musical.
Week Four - Sunday August 14 - 2-5pm. Bring in revision of your musical. We’ll discuss camera angles, locations, mechanics.
Sunday August 21 - Final draft due, with tracks. Upload date only; no meeting in person.
September 18 & 25 - We’ll shoot your musical! Additionally, you’ll assist as hidden cameraman in other writers’ musicals. Exact schedule to be determined, but plan on 9-6pm on both days.
Parameters for your musical:
- 2-3 minutes in length
- Shootable ‘guerrilla-style’ (we’ll swoop in to some location, perform your piece surrounded by hidden cameras, and then swoop away — one take and we’re gone!)
Here’s what you’ll do:
- write the show
- provide the track
- contact actors
- help be a hidden camera crew member for your fellow writers’ musicals
Here’s what we’ll do:
- rehearse the actors
- direct the show
- co-ordinate the shoot
- edit your show (A $2,000 value!)
- upload your show on YouTube and www.anmt.tv
- provide you with a copy for your own use
Cost: $500 per musical
Note: We need a minimum of 8 projects for this course to go forward.
To register (or for more info) - CLICK HERE
INSTRUCTOR INFO:
Scott Guy
Under Scott’s tenure, the Academy has developed over 50 musicals for producers across the country, and over 100 independent musicals by ANMT writers. Scott’s current and recent writing projects include: Musical version of Pirates of the Caribbean for Disney; script consultant for a musical by Placido Domingo, Jr., book/lyrics of Manson’s Girls for UC/Irvine; Master Smee’s Finishing School for Gentlemen Pirates and Ladies is Welcome Too with music by Jacques Offenbach; and Hunger at 2009 Stages Festival in Chicago, with music by 2009 Richard Rodgers composer Karlan Judd. Television credits: Six Emmy nominations, and over 100 produced television scripts for Warner Bros., FOX-TV, Disney, Discovery Channel, PBS, etc.)
Author: Elise Dewsberry
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc., Elise has been involved in the development of new works for over forty years: as an actor/singer, as a director, as a dramaturge, and as a writer. While living in Toronto, Elise served as the Assistant Artistic Director of the Muskoka Festival; the Co-Ordinator of the festival’s annual Musical Theatre Writer’s Colony, the Associate Dramaturge of the Canadian Stage Company; the Resident Dramaturge of the Smile Theatre Company; and was the co-founder of Toronto’s Script Lab. Elise spent many years touring Canada with Nine Months – a one-woman musical which she commissioned from writers Carl Ritchie and Stephen Woodjetts. Elise and Carl also co-wrote Any Body Home?, which was produced by the Cordova Bay Theatre in Victoria, British Columbia, and published by Dramatic Publishing. Elise joined ANMT as Associate Artistic Director in 2003; joined Founding Artistic Director John Sparks as Co-Artistic Director in 2010; and became Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc. in 2013. Elise is also the author and evaluator of the Book Lab and the Outlining Lab, offered online through www.writingmusicaltheatre.com, and publishes a monthly blog on the craft of musical theatre available at https://nmi.org/elises-video-blog/.