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Sunday, April 22, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Location Scouting
Jake Morely, film intensive student and Locations Manager leads part of the team on a locations scout to the Franklin Farm in Guilford.
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| Mexican Standoff |
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| Maple Sugaring |
Photos Courtesy of Willow O'Feral
Monday, March 12, 2012
Art Department at 110%
The Northern Borders Art Department has been going above and beyond in their preparations. Take a sneak peek at what's being put together.
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| Students step in to help out in Costumes. |
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| Jessica Shull, Costume Designer, at her battle station. |
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| Props/Set Decoration |
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| Props/Set Decoration |
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| Props/Set Decoration |
Photos Courtesy of Willow O'Feral
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
The Man with the Story: Howard Frank Mosher, author of Northern Borders, visits our class
Author and self-styled “co-conspirator,” Howard Frank Mosher visited the Marlboro Film Intensive’s Northern Literature class to discuss his novel and director Jay Craven’s screenplay adaptation. Leading the discussion with high energy and more than a little self-deprecating wit, Mosher regaled our class with his thoughts on the screenplay and responded to student questions about his writing process (he writes 6+ hours each day using longhand on yellow legal pads), his previous collaborations with Jay Craven (four previous films), and the fascinating and unconventional worlds of his Northern Borders characters. Mr. Mosher proved himself to be an expert storyteller, equal to our beloved Director/Professor, Jay Craven.
With the production looming we hope to see more of Mr. Mosher!
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Dan Mirk, Meghan O’Neill and Sascha Stanton Craven head up Comedy Workshop for the Film Intensive.
On Saturday night, February 4th, Marlboro College also hosted Fraidy Cat, a one-woman comedy performance by Meghan O’Neill (Upright Citizen’s Brigade). ‘Megan’s one-woman show (temporarily usurped by the equally hilarious (well, maybe) Dan Mirk and Sascha Stanton - Craven) was a tour de force of funny.
Dan & Sascha gearing us up.
Pitching sketches.
Meghan O'Neil's 'Fraidy Cat Performance
Chang Gang's Radio Hour Performance:
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| Photos courtesy of Lu Zhang. |
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Garret Keizer visits the Northern Literature course at Marlboro College
As part of the Marlboro Film Intensive curriculum, students read Garret Keizer’s 1996 book-length essay, No Place But Here: A Teacher’s Vocation in a Rural Community. Keizer is a respected essayist and contributing editor to Harper’s magazine. He also appeared on the Colbert Report recently to discuss his work. Essayists are usually pretty adept at stimulating passionate dialogue, so our class was fortunate to have him attend our class and lead discussion on his book and related topics including “noise,” the subject of his latest book.
Our group struck up an intimate and energetic conversation about Mr. Keizer’s experiences in public education. Students offered stories about their own experiences in the schools. After the session Mr. Keizer agreed to share his thoughts on the class and he sent us the following note.
After the close of my visit with the Northern Borders film project class, I was asked if I might write a paragraph or so summarizing my responses to the experience. Hoping I understood the request accurately, I am providing the following observations.
First, I was gratified to find the class so friendly and attentive. This was by no means a case of “warming up” to the visitor, but rather a predisposition to see that the visitor was made to feel at home from the start. As a result I found that I was able to direct all of my energies to the questions posed to me and little or no energy to matters of personal presentation and rhetorical strategy.
Second, I was delighted by the range of questions. I have been in book discussions where a single issue or exchange winds up predominating, not always with the greatest relevance to the overall purpose of the gathering. In this case, the open agenda seemed to enrich the discussion rather than permit it to go astray. To the best of my recollection, most of the questions fell into one of the following categories:
- Questions of clarification relating to “Getting Schooled” or No Place But Here
- Questions relating to education (with several sub-categories such as classroom management, parental involvement, personal experiences with school, home-schooling, etc.)
- Questions relating to the social and cultural context of the Northeast Kingdom and of rural communities in general
- Questions relating to the “writing life”
- Questions relating to characterization in Northern Borders
That’s an impressive range, I think, and I’ve probably failed to account for one or two questions that elude classification. In retrospect, I feel I can stand by the answers I gave, though I wish that some of them had been more succinct.
Finally, I left the campus impressed by the sense that the issues raised by the reading and discussion, as well as by the filmmaking project, actually matter to the students. That certainly contributed a great deal to making the experience matter to me. And I had fun.
Garret Keizer
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Visiting Artist: Costume Designer Sarah Beers Spends 3 Days with the Film Intensive
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| Photo courtesy of Lu Zhang |
Sarah Beers is a professional film, television, and theater costumer designer in New York. Her work includes films Maria Full of Grace, The Aspern Papers, Stranger in the Kingdom as well as TV series Rescue Me and In Treatment.
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