St. Joseph's College for Women, Alappuzha, Kerala, India, is happy to announce the UGC National Seminar on movie scripts, SCRIPTING SUCCESS. Jointly organized by the ENGLISH DEPARTMENT and the CINÈ FORUM, with the technical collaboration of the Kerala Chalachithra Academy, the seminar offers to explore the basics and strategies of film scripting.
The Seminar is titled Scripting Success: Discourses and Forays, and will negotiate the narrative/diegetic strategies adopted by reputed film makers and will provide a platform to analyze great scripts. Through discussions and paper presentations based on multiple theoretical perspectives, frameworks and idioms, the seminar aims critically to explore the foundational role of scripts and understand the complex matrix of film making.
Sub themes / Areas
Scripts and Genres
Analyzing the Oeuvre
Auteur's Vision
Literature to Script
Narrative Strategies
Script and Story board
About Us:
St. Joseph’s College for Women, Alappuzha has left an indelible imprint in the arena of women’s education in the district. It is a college affiliated to the University of Kerala, and founded and managed by the 'Canossian Daughters of Charity', an International Congregation. The college has been able to combine the core values of higher education with its own vision and mission based upon the twin concepts of Virtue and Knowledge, thus ensuring value based education that aims at global competencies, all the while upholding cultural and social ideals by promoting extra-curricular and co-curricular activities.
The Department of English stands at the vanguard of the activities of the college being the largest department reaching out to the entire student community. Blending tradition with innovation, the department undertakes activities which are of academic, social, aesthetic and cultural interest and relevance. The National Seminar “Scripting Success” is such a venture of the department.
The Cinè Forum of the college provides a space to learn about the genre in general and the technical and aesthetic aspects of film making in particular. Conceived by the Cinè Forum, the National Seminar opens up a dialogue on the intricacies and possibilities of script writing while providing an opportunity to view path breaking movies.
The Seminar will commence on 23 January, 2012 at 10.00 a.m. in the M. Fernanda Riva Memorial Auditorium with the Inaugural session. Inauguration is by Shri. K. C. Venugopal, Hon’ble Minister of State for Power, Smt. Bina Paul, Cinè Editor & Artistic Director, IFFK will deliver the Keynote Address. The meeting will be presided over by Rev. Sr. Leela Mappilacherry, Manager. Rev. Dr. Sr. Janat Augustine K., Principal and Shri. Fazil, Cinè Director, will deliver Special Address.
The plenary sessions will be handled by John Paul, the noted script writer, Prof. Bindu Menon, Dept of Journalism, Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi, Dr. Biju, award winning director and Dr. C.S. Venkiteswaran, the veteran film critic. The sessions are as follows:
Shri. John Paul : ‘Writing with Visuals’
Prof. Bindu Menon: ‘Desire and Disobedience - Exploring Film Scripts and Narration’
Dr. Biju: ‘From the Script to the Visual’
Dr. C. S. Venkiteswaran: ‘Word to Image: The Imponderables’
A film show has been planned for the evening of 23rd. The plenary sessions, paper presentations and discussions will spill over to the second day.
Valedictory function is at 3.00 p.m. on 24 January, 2012. Hon'ble MP Dr. Shashi Tharoor will deliver the Valedictory Address.
All are cordially invited to attend the seminar and enliven the proceedings with informed and critical discussions on the topic.
Warm regards,
Dr. Sandhya P. Pai
Convenor
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Chief Patron: Rev. Sr. Leela Mappilacherry, Manager
Patron: Rev. Dr. Sr. Janat Augustine K., Principal
Chairperson: Prof. Tessy Xavier P.,
HoD, Dept of English
Convenor: Dr. Sandhya P. Pai,
Associate Professor, Dept of English, & Co-ordinator, Cinè Forum
Joint Convenor: Dr. Sheena George,
Associate Professor, Dept of English
Joint Convenor: Dr. Nimmy Alexander, Associate Professor, Dept of Physical Education, & Co-ordinator, Cinè Forum
e-mail: scriptingsuccess2012@gmail.com;
sandeshenoy@gmail.com
engdept2010@gmail.com
Contact Numbers:
09496466850, 09447708868
09388461103, 09809320722
09388461103, 09809320722
0477-2244622, 0477-2243846
Nice idea! Worth being emulated by other colleges. Best wishes and all my advance congratulations, because I know you can organize things well.
ReplyDeleteThe seminar should also plan to produce a script for a Film, with literary & script contributions from the students.
All the best!
P C MENON, Bangalore.
I am overwhelmed at this comment from an unexpected quarter. Dear
ReplyDeleteSir, Thank you so much for your heartening and encouraging
response. Please, if you are able to come down, attend our
seminar. In any case, we need your blessings and prayers.
Thanks once again,
Sandhya Pai
Very impressive brochure and blog.
ReplyDeleteWishing the seminar all success. Organisers need to be applauded for their worthy effort towards better scripting.
Thank you very much for your encouraging response and wishes.
ReplyDeleteWish Scripting Success all success.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for your wishes.
ReplyDelete