The S.A.G.E. Workshops are closed for 2008. Workshops are held every year from March to May. The following workshops are what you can expect for 2009:

Visual Design
Lecturer - Herbert Brauer

This is a one-night workshop on encouraging editors to explore the process of seeing rather than looking. Photographic stills will be analysed and the resulting images will be broken down to view their inner working and effectiveness to a possible scene. The theory of design in film craft will be discussed in detail as well as the differences in camera/lens/film registers and the human eye. The building blocks of two-dimensional visual design (composition) as well as the properties of light relating to the elements of design will be discussed. For those editors who want that extra edge in analyzing a scene.

Editing Drama: Button Pushers or Artists?
Lecturer - Catherine Meyburgh

This workshop is for those beginning their careers as professional drama editors, as well as assistant editors and post-production managers who want a command over the entire post-production process. The workshop not only covers an introduction to drama editing it also offers you the opportunity to cut work on an edit suite that will be analysed by Catherine. Catherine also covers the methodology and artistic aspects every editor needs to know: pacing and timing, the use of transitions, how to use music, sound effects and mix in narration, basic editing theory and the Editor's responsibilities in an edit suite. Highly experienced editors have taken this workshop and felt it benefitted them greatly by going over the basic principles of editing which Catherine covers superbly.

HD Deliverables for Post Production
Lecturers - Graham Cooke, Susan Scott and Candice van der Valk.

This is the highly successful workshop that S.A.G.E. hosted at WildTalk last September in Durban. The South African Guild of Editors is hosting this workshop to inform local editors and producers of the technical requirements for working in HD as opposed to Standard Definition. Handouts of actual HD deliverables (courtesy of Discovery Communications International and Off the Fence Distributors) will be made available to all participants of the workshop. These latest up-to-date deliverables will be discussed in detail, by editors experienced in dealing with delivery of HD wildlife films to broadcasters like Discovery, Animal Planet and National Geographic.

Previous workshops have been:
'Shared Storage on the Avid Platform'; 'After Effects for Editors'; 'Post Production Supervision' and 'Color Grading and Onlining'.

 

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The S.A.G.E. Workshops came about as a direct response to requests from members of the guild. These workshops are essential for keeping editors' skills technically up to date. They offer an opportunity for members to gain valuable knowledge from accomplished editors willing to share their experiences from their particular genres.

Here is what editors have said about the S.A.G.E. Workshops:

"Helped confirm things. Very helpful and informative."
"It helped me in terms of understanding what is possible and will influence my shot selection as a offline editor"
"Workshop was Great - good to have interaction with other editors and a good start to improve the armoury of work in S.A."
"Have learnt a lot, Thanks! It was terrific to have things revisited and reconfirmed!"
"At last! So nice to have someone more experienced in that field help me understand the more complex issues."