CPD Workshop: Principles of Concept Development for Visual Storytelling

Join professional film producer & screen industry educator, Xanthie Marcelle, as she hands you the educational tools to support YOUR future filmmakers to:

• Turn assessment restrictions into a creativity accelerator
• Bypass 'writers block' typical of the development process 
• Roll camera in record time
• Create films with PERSONAL MEANING at school and beyond!

OUTLINE

In this full-day interactive professional development workshop, participants are led through four (4) core principles of concept development, discovering and exercising strategies to facilitate the quick development of students' ideas for the purposes of completing assessments, advancing creative development, and encouraging ongoing film career aspirations.

Participants will also tour the studio where the event is located, and check out the top industry quality camera, lighting, rigging, and editing equipment used in professional work and educational programs. Pluggas Studio is the Sunshine Coast's largest studio facility and operates as a custom built, acoustically treated sound stage, fully operational production office, and comprehensive-service post-production facility.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Primarily designed for:

• FTVNM teachers and heads of department
• secondary teachers of subjects requiring creative concept development (e.g. drama, arts, humanities)
• VET practitioners
• tertiary educators
• academics / research students in film, television, and/or screenwriting
• academics / research students in education

INCLUSIONS

Participants will have the opportunity to:

• Learn simple approaches to turn a seed of an idea into a screen story;
  
• Apply these approaches to their own idea/s;
• Participate in interactive group discussions regarding the contextual application of these approaches; and
• Participate in group, pair, and individual activities to develop their own concepts

On completion of the workshop, participants will receive:

• Extended resource guide; and
• Certificate of attendance

This professional learning experience addresses elements 1.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, and 6.2 of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, and can be used to contribute to CPD records in accordance with annual requirements.

ON-SITE DETAILS

Participants should bring:

• Reliable tools for a full day of notetaking (i.e. laptop, tablet, phone, notebook, pen, device charger/s)
• Water
• Lunch
• Creativity!

Bathroom facilities, limited free parking, a refrigerator, a microwave, and tea and coffee making facilities are available on site at Pluggas Studio - a

Please advise of any accessibility requirements via email at least one (1) week prior to the workshop date.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:

Xanthie Marcelle is a Creative Producer at Pluggas, a Sessional Academic at QUT, and Owner of Marcelle Pictures. Her breadth of experience in scripted, documentary, and online platforms - over TV, feature film, and animation formats - informs her own process as a screenwriter, creative producer, and script editor, as well as her approach to teaching in both tertiary and vocational industries. 

Following an 8-month internship at Screen Queensland, Xanthie has worked on productions including 2022 TV series, Darby and Joan (available on ABC iView), 2021 documentary feature, Alick and Albert (available on Stan), SBS-commissioned, Rebel With A Cause (2023), and scripted features Dusk and Spit (both currently in post-production). Her own screen stories have won accolades such as Best Web Series at A Night of Horror International Film Festival and Best Horror at the British Web Awards in 2021, Finalist in the 2023 Writers x Writers Screenplay Competition, and Best Student Film at The Next Level International Film Festival in Sydney in 2019. 

Support granted to her by both Screen Queensland and Screen Australia initiatives has facilitated her roles on local feature films and TV series with international origins and reach, as well as domestic and international travel to attend film industry markets, where - most recently - she has been arranging the sale of her first feature film, Wicked Faith, to global distributors.

Equipped with a Bachelor of Entertainment Industries (Screen Studies) from QUT, a Master of Screen Production from Griffith, and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment from TAFE QLD, Xanthie is clearly a voracious learner with irrepressible creativity and ambition, who is passionate about supporting other people crazy enough to pursue a career in the screen industry.