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Day 1 of workshop on film making

05/10/2015 By christina 1 Comment

Today was a very interesting day at the workshop on film making with Tim Skousen, an American director who has made award-winning films and commercials.

There are 5 aspiring Mauritian film makers from very varied backgrounds who are attending, all of them young but whose passion for telling a story with images is very much alive.

Tim Skousen presented the different facets of film making in a very structured way, from directing actors, cinematography (including shots, POVs, gaze, camera movement, lighting), editing, sound design and music to production design.

All the while, he was showing extracts of a wide range of movies starting from the Lumière Bros’ L’Arroseur Arrosé, Georges Méliès’ Voyage sur la Lune, and Edwin Porter’s The Great Train Robbery. We also watched closely extracts from Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Soderbergh’s The Limey, John Hugues’  The Breakfast Club and Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive.

Quite a feast for the eyes and the mind as he proceeded to provide some very insightful analysis of key scenes!

We were also asked to work in teams of 3 to make a short film with only 3 still shots. And here’s what our team did in under 30 minutes (to find the right idea, find a girl in the classrooms around to act the role, and finally shoot the scenes):

We’re looking forward to the next 4 days!

To find out more about how the University of Mauritius is involved in the film festival Île Courts 2015 and for the programme, read

Le Septième Art à l’Université de Maurice

Articles by UOM students for Kozé

The website of Porteurs d’Images

Filed Under: Academia, Mauritius, Television & Film, Uncategorized Tagged With: art, cinéma, film making, films, ilecourts2015

Round Table on Gender – Presentation on Gender and Media

07/03/2015 By christina 3 Comments

Here are the slides that I used today for the Round Table on Gender Equality (Egalite Zom-Fam) which was organised by the Ministy of Gender at the Paul Octave Wiehe Auditorium:

RoundTable-Gender-Media-7March2015-chan-meetoo

Also a gallery of images which I showed during the session:

Media tell women that they need to have well-toned bodies
A sports supplement about women athletes that focuses on attributes rather than performance
There are as many women as men in cardiac consultations…
The fair-skinned, flat tummy injunction
Men need to have six packs and be fair-skinned
Women as faire-valoir for technology
Stylish, bourgeois and respectable fair-skinned men
A search for a cover model for a tech magazine

Filed Under: Advertising, Gender, Mauritius, Press, Society, Television & Film, Uncategorized Tagged With: films, gender, gender roles, kids, literacy, media, representation

Les courts métrages mauriciens

14/06/2013 By christina Leave a Comment

Voici une copie de la présentation que j’ai faite ce matin lors du congrès du CIEF à Grand-Baie dans la session sur le cinéma.

La communication s’intitule ‘Le court métrage de fiction dans la sphère médiatique mauricienne’.

Courts-métrages-mauriciens-Chan-Meetoo

Filed Under: Mauritius, Society, Television & Film, Uncategorized Tagged With: christina chan-meetoo, cinéma, courts métrages, fiction, films, ile maurice, politique culturelle, université de maurice

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