Lovecraft’s literary mythos, the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies is an international organization that offers university-level history, theory and production-based masterclasses for people of all ages, founded by film writer and programmer Kier-La Janisse in March 2010, with regular branches in London, New York and L.A. Named for the fictional university in H.P. About the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies:
Prices: $12 advance ($40 with book) / $15 door The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies – LA – Focus on: The Murder Set PieceĪddress: 3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA He has lectured on television directing at USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program and film analysis at Harvard University. He recently wrapped shooting the horror-comedy Eat, Brains, Love for production company Gunpowder & Sky.
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His genre directing credits include Dimension TV’s Scream, the TV Series HBO’s Tales From the Crypt The Roger Corman-produced feature The Unborn and Columbia Pictures’ Idle Hands. Rodman Flender has worked in film, theater, documentary and television. Hitchcock’s Frenzy will also be examined as a master-class in blocking a scene. “low” art will compare similar scenes in Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring and Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left - why one is considered an art film while the other is thought of as grindhouse sleaze? Which do the students prefer, and why? We will compare antagonists in murder set pieces, from man ( Frenzy), nature ( Jaws), technology (2001, Demon Seed), and the supernatural ( Nosferatu, Final Destination 5). Topics covered include: What are the individual elements in Hitchcock’s Psycho shower scene that created the template for the modern murder set piece (music, editing, cinematography, lighting, performance)? Where have directors Brian De Palma and Dario Argento taken Hitchcock’s template in films like Dressed to Kill and Suspiria? What elements in Fritz Lang’s 1931 German thriller M did Ron Howard use 65 years later in his Hollywood film Ransom? A discussion of “high” vs. Flender will also walk through his own preparation for a set piece he directed for the Dimension TV series Scream. Deconstruction will include set pieces from classics many students know (Psycho, Halloween, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), modern favorites ( High Tension, The Babadook), and lesser-known films ( Edison’s Frankenstein, Horror Hotel, Kristy). With close-read examinations and comparisons of murder set pieces from the silent era through contemporary releases, students will gain an understanding of the essential tools needed to create tension and suspense on a visceral and psychological level. Often the centerpiece of horror and thriller films, the murder set piece is its own three-act “mini movie,” with beginning, middle and climax. Focusing on the shower scene in PSYCHO, various forms of antagonists in horror, a master class on FRENZY, and much more, Flender will make sure you never look at thriller films quite the same again after this class.ĭirector Rodman Flender breaks down visual storytelling to its most basic narrative requirements. The Miskatonic Institute Horror Studies – LA shines light on the intricacies in visual storytelling of the murder set piece with director Robert Flender.
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