FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIAL

FILMMAKING- 8 Weeks

DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMME

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Silver Lining Creation

Vuoritie 2C 18, JÄRVENPÄÄ 04400
FINLAND
E-mail: slcreation@doramail.com, silverliningcreation@gmail.com
www.silcreation.org
Fundamentals of Social Filmmaking (8 weeks)

The distance learning course on Social Filmmaking will begin from 2nd of January 2010.

The call for applications shall be made by the end of July 2009. Application procedures, entry
requirements and selection criteria will be published on our website by this date.

All successful applicants will be notified by 20 December 2009.

The course is offered completely online and is free of charge. We use a web based virtual class
room and deliver teaching materials, tutorials and assignments via that. Video conferencing can also
be used if needed.

This course does not lead to any academic degree or students do not get any credits which they can
transfer into their university degree. However, upon successful completion of this course they will
get acquainted with the fundamentals of social filmmaking and, in particular, its use for social
transformation. All successful students will also receive a certificate of completion.

Course Contents

Week 1 and 2:

What is social filmmaking?

The use of Films and Videos for social purposes,

Case studies from different countries

Week 3 and 4:

Script writing, why and how? Where do ideas come from?

Good scripts and lousy scripts, language and its use, ethical considerations

A project work on script writing

Week 5 and 6:

Video/Film shooting and Editing, what to choose: film or video?

Technology and recent developments. How to find the audience for your work?

Short films and social impact

Week 7 and 8

Basic Introduction to video editing programmes, how to edit images?

Final project work: a 5 minutes long short film/documentary or an alternative written work.

More information will be available as soon as application deadline is published. If you want to
know about the course already now, please send an email message to slcreation@doramail.com.

Silver Lining Creation is a group of
independent filmmakers and scriptwriters
who are not professionally involved in
this field, but sufficiently able to cater a
high quality professional requirement of
the field. We have dubbed slightly a new
name for us as well. Since commercial
filmmaking is different from social
filmmaking, we call ourselves 'social
filmmakers,' meaning that the purpose of
our work is to bring about positive
changes in society through the use of
audiovisual media. We are self-taught and
self-motivated ‘social filmmakers’. In
literal sense, we always strive to be the
voice to the voiceless and power to the
powerless.
Our Prioritized Areas (2009-11)
We are currently based in Finland, but
soon planning to expand our reach into
other parts of the world as well. In fact,
we don’t want to confine ourselves within
any particular borders and frontiers. We
are social filmmakers without borders!
We try to reach the places where stories
are hidden and dig out those stories which
the world needs to see, hear and respond.
We strongly wish to work in close
collaboration with independent
filmmakers who are interested in social
filmmaking. On the other hand, we try
our best to support motivated filmmakers
from developing countries who want to
use visual media as the tool of social
change. We don’t have capacity to
provide financial support, but we can help
by offering free distance learning courses
on filmmaking and if possible by
providing other technical support
(equipments, editing, post-production
etc.).
Health, Education and Justice
for all
Community Development &
Poverty Alleviation
Youth, Women and
Empowerment of the
oppressed and cultural
minorities
Human Rights, Peace and
Democracy
Environmental Protection and
Sustainable Development
Brain Drain or the flow of
intellectual capital from the
developing countries
Alternative Energy/ Alternative
Initiatives for Development
- We are a group of independent filmmakers and
script writers. We make short films and video
documentaries and our primary focus is on social
issues.
- We are not professional filmmakers, but we are
equipped with professional knowledge and
technology needed for a proper film/video
production at this time.
- Filmmaking is not our profession, but we spend a
substantial amount of time and energy for this
purpose.
- We are not a closed group. Everybody can be
part of us and work with us, but he or she needs to
abide by some terms, conditions and ethics that we
have developed for this group.
- We work with other independent filmmakers,
community media organizations, NGOs and even
with motivated individuals.
- We use social media, internet, and public as well
as private agencies to disseminate our work.
- We don't take, share or provide any profit to
members and volunteers associated with us. All
profit that we make is either used to strengthen our
campaign or spent on educating the poor children
of developing countries.
- We are planning to offer some distance learning
courses from the beginning of 2010.
- We work with and for people from all over the
world, but our emphasis is on the issues of
developing world.

Similarly, we equally wish to work with

organizations from all over the world who
have committed themselves to social
justice, development, equity and wider
participation. We encourage youth
organizations, community media
institutions, NGOs and self-help groups to
work together with us. We also welcome
individuals who have innovative ideas
and want to expand their skills in this
field. There is another option to work
with us as volunteers as well.

We are not commercial filmmakers, so

don’t intend to make profit out of
filmmaking for ourselves. We have
envisaged that all profit that we make
from filmmaking will be spent on further
development of our campaign and the rest
will be spent on educating the destitute
and homeless children in developing
countries through a trust which will be
possibly named The Silver Lining
Foundation.

(For more information please visit our

official website www.silcreation.org)