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SUMMARY:Digital Illustration
DESCRIPTION:To book your space\, email refractivecollective@gmail.com or call/text 07789117740. \nDates: \n\n06 October\n13 October\n20 October\n03 November\n10 November\n\n£5 per session – 6PM – 8PM. \n3rd Floor Witherspoon Building. \n\n5 Week Advanced Digital Illustration and Design Workshops Using Procreate with Indie McCue.\nIntroduction: Welcome to our 5-week Advanced Digital Illustration Workshops using Procreate! This comprehensive program is designed for individuals who already have a solid foundation in digital illustration and want to take their skills to the next level using the powerful Procreate app. Through a series of engaging workshops\, participants will explore advanced techniques\, refine their artistic style\, and create stunning digital illustrations. \nThis proposal outlines the structure\, topics\, and objectives of the workshops. \nWorkshop Objectives:\n\nMaster Advanced Procreate Tools: Participants will learn advanced features and tools within the Procreate app\, including custom brushes\, layer management\, blend modes\, and advanced selection techniques.\nDevelop Advanced Illustration Techniques: The workshops will focus on advanced illustration techniques such as digital painting\, texture creation\, dynamic shading and lighting\, and realistic rendering.\nExplore Composition and Colour Theory: Participants will delve into the principles of composition and learn how to effectively use colour theory to create visually striking and harmonious illustrations.\nEnhance Personal Style: The workshops will encourage participants to develop their own unique artistic style by exploring different approaches\, experimenting with various brushes\, and refining their visual language.\nDigital Mixed Media: Participants will explore the integration of traditional media elements within Procreate\, such as scanned textures\, hand-drawn elements\, and mixed media effects. 6. Portfolio Development: The workshops will guide participants in creating a cohesive and impressive digital illustration portfolio\, showcasing their best work and attracting potential clients or employers.\n\nWorkshop Outline:\nWeek 1: Procreate Tools and Techniques – Exploring advanced brush customisation and creating custom brushes – Mastering layer management and blend modes for more complex illustrations – Advanced selection techniques for precise editing and manipulation – Utilizing Procreate’s built-in effects and adjustments for enhancing artwork \nWeek 2: Advanced Illustration Techniques – Digital painting techniques and creating depth in illustrations – Texture creation and applying realistic textures to digital artwork – Advanced shading and lighting techniques for dynamic illustrations – Enhancing details and refining artwork using Procreate’s precision tools \nWeek 3: Composition and Colour Mastery – Principles of composition and visual storytelling – Exploring advanced colour theory and colour harmonies – Using Procreate’s colour tools and palettes effectively – Creating balance\, focal points\, and visual interest in illustrations \nWeek 4 & 5 : Personal Style and Mixed Media Integration – Developing a personal artistic style and visual language – Incorporating traditional media elements into Procreate artwork – Experimenting with mixed media effects and techniques – Building a professional digital illustration portfolio using Procreate’s features. \nDelivery Format:\nThe Workshops will be conducted through practical in-person sessions that will be delivered from the Refractive Hub. In addition to this Participants will have access to a dedicated learning platform where they can access workshop materials\, engage in discussions and submit their work for feedback. \nLive Q&A sessions will also be held to address any questions or concerns. \nTarget Audience: The workshops are suitable for intermediate to advanced digital illustrators who are already familiar with the Procreate app and want to further refine their skills. This may include freelance illustrators\, artists\, designers\, or students looking to enhance their digital illustration abilities using Procreate. \nConclusion: Our 5-week Advanced Digital Illustration Workshops using Procreate aim to provide a comprehensive and immersive learning experience for participants to excel in digital illustration. By mastering advanced Procreate tools\, exploring illustration techniques\, refining personal style\, and understanding composition and colour theory\, attendees will be equipped to create stunning and professional digital illustrations. Join us on this artistic journey and take your digital illustration skills to new heights with Procreate! \nIndie McCue : Tutor\nMulti- faceted and multi-skilled\, Indie McCue resides in Paisley\, Renfrewshire bringing with them a multitude of creative skills; from arts production\, creative project management\, facilitation\, community arts engagement and outreach. However\, first and foremost Indie is a practicing creative\, driven by process\, passion for community and collaborative creation. \nIndie McCue is a multidisciplinary creative\, never limited by any one medium they seek to explore the contextual realms of sociopolitical charades. Since the conception of their creative career\, Indie has played with the external narratives of existing out with the mould and the predispositions that accompany such an existence. \nIn recent years the creative outputs Indie has produced have taken on more digital mediums such as graphic design\, 3D modelling\, experimental film\, animation and game design; This is in response to the lack of space available for creatives to produce work in. Their work is not confined to any one physical manifestation but instead holds each form as equal in conjunction with their current conceptual focal point.
URL:https://refractive.scot/event/digital-illustration/
LOCATION:Refractive Hub\, 3rd Floor Witherspoon Building\, Storie St\, Paisley\, PA1 2AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:4 Track Nights-EVENT POSTPONED please contact refractivecollective@gmail.com for more information
DESCRIPTION:Event Postponed – The tutor is unwell and cannot attend tomorrow. Please contact refractivecollective@gmail.com for the new dates.\nFour Track Nights – Experimental Sound Workshops\nA series of 7x monthly practical workshops focused on experimental music and noise culture aimed at supporting interest\, additional growth and skill development for experimental audio artists\, while opening up access to a community of like minded individuals. Each workshop is aimed at those already working within this field and have previous experience and knowledge to relate\, but may be of interest to those who are looking to take their 1st steps into experimental audio works. \nThese sessions will be approximately 2 hours and at a monthly schedule\, £5 per session Book as space at: refractivecollective@gmail.com or call: 07789117740 \n4TN workshop tutors\nChris Duddy – Mic Building\, ReAmping\, Live immersive works with Qlab\,  iPad for experimental music\nChris is an established events and performance technologist working within the creative industries and in education.\nCreator of the PRNT KTCHN an educational\,recycling and design initiative and Four Track Nights a platform and research project for the curation of experimental audio and video artists. Currently based in Paisley\, Chris’s main arts practice focuses on technology applied to video and sonic performance and immersive installations. \nKeny Drew – Tape Loops\n1 part of the dynamic experimental sound and installation duo JAMP. Keny Drew a Former Paisley resident and now Crail based glass artist and musician\, creates works using modular synths\, acoustic samples and 4 track tape loops. As part of JAMP Keny creates unique immersive soundscapes paired with visual performances. \nFraser Rowan – Modular Demystified\nFraser Rowan is a Glasgow based producer performing\, writing and recording music under the name Ty Lumnus. For many years his instrument of choice was guitar\, working in collaboration with other musicians. After a short time working with an electronic artist his eyes were opened to a new way of creating music which enabled an artist to write\, record and perform music without the requirement of other musicians. At this stage he adopted Ableton and a laptop into his workflow and found that his output rapidly accelerated. Always preferring to work out of the box\, Fraser had collected a number of hardware synths\, however they never felt like the natural instrument of choice. After feeling more of an affinity towards the flexibility of semi modular synths\, Fraser took the plunge into a fully modular system that he has been building for >6 years.
URL:https://refractive.scot/event/4-track-nights/
LOCATION:Refractive Hub\, 3rd Floor Witherspoon Building\, Storie St\, Paisley\, PA1 2AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Starting in Screenwriting
DESCRIPTION:Taking Your first Steps in Screenwriting with Gary Hewitt.\n\nSold out – Please contact Refractive to find out about the next screenwriting workshop programme.  \n\nDo you have a excellent idea for a film and want to turn it into a script? Have you already started a screenplay and hit a wall? New screenwriters will be able to learn the concepts and techniques of storytelling and look at how to develop and structure a screenplay by using hands-on\, interactive learning. This will provide new screenwriters with the skills and techniques required to kickstart their imagination as an emerging screenwriter. These workshops will help unlock storytelling potential of scripted dialogue and express dramatic ideas on the page. You’ll receive friendly\, constructive feedback throughout the course and have the opportunity to discuss and share your script ideas with a group of fellow writers. This can be an incredibly useful part of the creative process\, helping you develop the style and scope of your writing. \nPLEASE NOTE: fluency in English is required for this course. \nSCREENWRITING WORKSHOP SCHEDULE (ROUGH BREAKDOWN) \nEach class would be a 3hour class\, with a 20min break for students to network and ask questions. \nMONTH 1 – PROJECT TREATMENT – 28th Aug\nLearn the craft of writing your project treatment: \n\nLogline\nSynopsis\nGenres\nTones & themes\n\nMONTH 2 – CHARACTERS – 25th Sept\nLearn how to develop your characters including: \n\nCharacter Arcs and character motivations\nProtagonists\nAntagonists\n\nWriting unlikable protagonists & inhuman antagonists \nMONTH 3 – STRUCTURE – 23rd Oct\nLearn how to map out the structure of your script with: \n\n3 Act Structure\nturning points & midpoints (SOTL & titanic will be used as examples)\nconflicts\n\nMONTH 4 – STEP OUTLINE – 27th Nov\nLearn how to write out your Step-outlines and work out if your project will be written from an omniscient narrative\, restrictive narrative or an unrealisable narrative. \nMONTH 5 – SCREENPLAY FORMATTING – XMAS DAY – So need to make it 18th DEC\n\nScreenplay Formatting\nUsing the white space\nWriting unfilmable‘s\nBest script software to use\n\nMONTH 6 – SCENE STRUCTURE – 22nd  Jan\nWe will go in-depth into writing Scenes including: \n\nScene structure\nis the scene needed?\nWriting opening scene\nCharacter introduction and Status and power in scenes\nGuest Speaker\n\nMONTH 7 – MCGUFFIN’S AND OTHER ITEMS – 26th Feb\n\nFind out the difference between Talismans & McGuffins\nset ups and payoffs Chekov’s gun. (Shaun of the dead & EEAAO will be used as examples)\n\nMONTH 8 – WORLD BUILDING – 25th March\nWorld building and visual storytelling. \n\nDoes the rules of your world make sense\nAre the rules clear from the start\nA prologue\nCan you move the story forward in other ways rather than Dialogue\n\nMONTH 9 – REWRITING  – 22nd April\nWhat’s the best way to go about rewriting your script. \n\nTake a vacation From Your First Draft\nKill Your Darlings – Can any CHARACTERS or PLOTS be cut out or combined?\nWrite from each character POV (treat them as your main character)\nCan you identify the CATALYST\, FIRST ACT BREAK\, MIDPOINT\, SECOND ACT BREAK\, and CLIMAX?\nDoes the main character have a clear ARC?\nDo the STAKES escalate throughout the script?\nDo the SUBPLOTS connect to the main plot? Is a THEME emerging?\n\nMONTH 10 – ONE ON ONE MEETINGS – 27th May\nLet’s look at your project one on one \n\nWhat issues are you having?\nHow far along are you with the script?\nHow can we make it better?\n\nMONTH 11 – EXPOSITION & WRITING BETTER DIALOGUE – 24th June\n\nHow to write exposition properly.\nHow can you tell the story through meaningful dialogue.\nExposition should be brief\nExposition through character\n\nMONTH 12 – TAKING YOU SCRIPT INTO THE WORLD – 22nd July\n\nCreating Pitch decks\,\nEntering competitions\nFinding agents\nGuest Speaker\n\nTUTOR\nClasses are taught by award-winning filmmaker Gary J Hewitt who has been working in the industry for over 10years. Gary J Hewitt is a Screenwriter and Director from Glasgow\, Scotland. His debut feature film Cleek has its festival run in 2018. It was distributed by Shami Media Group on Amazon Prime and later went to DVD on March 15th 2019. Following the success of Cleek. Gary directed multi award winning film ‘Mia: A Rapture 2.0 Production’. The film won over 10 awards including Best British Film\, Best Film and the IAC Diamond Award at BIAFF. Since then\, Mia: A Rapture 2.0 Production has been distributed by North American company Meridian Releasing Group and can be purchased on Amazon. Gary’s most recent project The Defender (currently in Production) ranks in the top 30% in coverfly\, was one of 6 semi-finalists at FILM MARKET HUB\, scored 7.5/10 on SCREENCRAFT and was a quarter finalist . \nFINAL WORDS\nThis will serve as a fantastic platform to jump-start screenwriting careers for people who have had no formal education or experience in the field. The class will provide an intuitive structure to the art of screenwriting and will be a creative home where writers develop their craft. It is designed to offer personalised attention to your ideas\, with an emphasis on industry expectations and standards. \nOnce the fundamentals have been established the students will be able to immediately put these new skills to use by writing their own scripts.
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