DAY TWO. The Orientation Week continues with a special treat: Screening of Italian film, “Passing Time” directed by Laura Bispuri yesterday. Grad Film Department co-organized this exclusive screening and Q&A session with Director Laura Bispuri with the Italian Cultural Institute in Singapore.

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It’s ORIENTATION WEEK! Tisch Asia warmly welcomes the First Years to Singapore. This year, the community welcome the new members of Tisch Asia with a casual “satay and beer” party at campus. Everyone is excited and gently adapting to the exotic Singapore environment. The First Years have a busy orientation week ahead – packed with talks, workshops, screenings, Q&As with Filmmakers, Writers and Animators. Once again, WELCOME TO SINGAPORE!

Mingling already! 3rd Year Film Alice Ho with 1st Year Film Candice Vaughn.

Satay, a local Malay delicacy – basically, BBQ meat on a stick. (more…)

Recent Grad Film graduate, Basil Mironer collaborated with his family in the making of a 30-minute independent film entitled, “Fire Proof” or “Thohn Fai” in Thai. Basil co-wrote the story with his father, Dr. Eugene Mironer for his brother, Ben. This “first family collaboration” captured the attention of local journalist, Kim Kimzey and the story was published here.  The film was shot over 10 days at Mironer’s former school, Spartanburg Day School with a budget of USD$15,000.

His crew comprises of former classmates from Tisch Asia and film producer Tommy Oliver.

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The Tisch Summer High School Program in Singapore is not all work and no play. The high school students did an impromptu performance with their teaching assistants along Pagoda Street in Chinatown during one of the Arts & Culture tour.

Tisch Asia: Summer High School Program 2010 – Pagoda St, Chinatown Part 1

Tisch Asia: Summer High School Program 2010 – Pagoda St, Chinatown Part 2

The Tisch Summer High School Program also teaches the students the basics of post-production. The students learn to edit on the latest Final Cut Pro 7 at our Tisch Asia campus. This is the same facilities used by our MFA in Film students. Under the guidance of Post-Production instructor Mr John Burkhart, students learn how to import clips from tapeless media (Sony SXS cards), use timeline tools, utilize basic editing tools, 3-point editing and basic color correction. Here are some photos of the students during their editing class:

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On July 18, the Tisch Summer High School Program students had a little weekend adventure at Pulau Ubin, the last “kampung” (or village) in Singapore. The group took a bumboat ride from Changi jetty from the main island to Pulau Ubin. Once arrived, students can choose to cycle or ride the van for a half-day tour around the island. Students experienced “Singapore in the 60s” as they cycled through rubber plantations and tropical mangroves. It was an interesting and enriching day away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

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The Tisch Summer High School Program is an intensive month-long program. The high school students learn filmmaking through hands-on exercises. They use the Sony EX1 to shoot their exercises. Here are some behind-the-scenes photos from their filming exercise.

Nadine, behind the Sony Ex1.

Christopher, Ryland and Aditya working together in a filming exercise.

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For the first time, Tisch Summer High School Program introduces a new destination: SINGAPORE! 11 high school students from Singapore, United States, United Kingdom, Qatar, Canada and South Korea came to Singapore the month-long program to learn filmmaking. The students visited the Night Safari on their first day (12 July 2010) of the program. See below for the photos of their night adventure!

Say hello to the Tisch Summer High School 2010 in Singapore!

One of the students, Sanjay participated in the tribal dance at the Night Safari.

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3rd year film student, Han West released two of his viral video projects which gained huge popularity among the gaming circle on the Internet. These videos were initially produced for his Directing Television Commercials class. Han decided to test the effectiveness of his videos on YouTube (click here to watch the videos). In a week, his viral videos for the imaginary PlayStation 4 received more than 200,000 views on YouTube. Read Kotaku.com for an exclusive interview with Han West as he revealed himself as the director of the viral videos.

Han West directing his actors on the set of his viral video project.

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The Department of Film held the 1st symposium on film in Singapore on Thursday (22 April) at Tisch Asia. The symposium focused on “Film and Television: Singapore as a Media Hub” with guest speakers such as Roger Spottiswoode (writer/director of “Tomorrow Never Dies”), Daniel Yun (Founder of Homerun Singapore), Isaac Kerlow (Director/Visual Creator), Chang Yee Yeo (Hyde Park Imagenation Singapore), Freddie Yeo (General Manager of Infinite Frameworks), Kathleen McInnis (Publicist) and other distinguished guests. The full-day event was attended by the Tisch Asia community and also friends of the university.