We are all part of a new digital ecosystem. An ever-evolving way to share our stories. As visual story creators, quite often our still images are making the transition into stories with motion. What tools do we need to craft our vision into a short film? How can we share our stories with a worldwide audience?

These questions and many more are answered as we explore this compelling new digital ecosystem with still photographer and now filmmaker, Carlan Tapp. In this new online workshop, which serves as a broad introduction to filmmaking for photographers, we take the time to understand the creative process of visual storytelling concepts, story structure, visual sequence, and timing in filmmaking. Within the framework of the creative process, we consider the necessary equipment to bring our creative concepts to life. Using iPhones to mirrorless cameras, and simple software tools, we learn to allow the equipment and technical elements to stand as a foundation for our creative vision. We learn to make the leap of faith to explore new directions with our creative concepts, discovering creative things can happen when we do think differently.

Join Carlan this spring and jump into the art of the short film.

Additional Information

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Advanced Amateurs, Professionals

What You Should Know:

Basic computer skills, how to use your capture device, and basic digital workflow are all that’s required.

Special Notes:

Class will meet 9:30 – 11:30 am (Mountain Time) on Saturdays and Wednesdays starting April 5 and ending April 23 (six online group sessions). Enrollment is limited to 12 participants.

Zoom Video Conferencing software (available for no charge from Zoom.com) will be used to facilitate the class sessions. Further details will be emailed to registrants.

Santa Fe Workshops always aims to produce a high-quality experience for our online attendees. That said, variables including regional and local internet provider speeds, traffic on Zoom's servers, and your own computing hardware can contribute to a less than ideal streaming event. While we do our best to minimize the impact of these variables, they are outside the control of Santa Fe Workshops.

Policies:

View Withdrawal and Transfer Policies for online programs.

For the convenience of participants, recordings of each class session are posted privately for one month after the end of each session. Santa Fe Workshops takes the recordings down after one month to protect the intellectual property of our instructors.

about

Carlan Tapp

Carlan Tapp is a documentary filmmaker and photographer. In the late 1970s, he assisted Ansel Adams for three years at his Yosemite Workshops, and shortly thereafter he enrolled in Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. A descendant of the Wicocomico Tribe (Taptico family), Carlan, together with his wife, founded Naamehnay Project-Question of Power, a federal nonprofit focused on creating a visual voice for Native American homelands and sacred sites impacted by energy industrialization in America. Carlan’s work has been featured in Harley-Davidson HOG Magazine, New Mexico Magazine, Bloomberg, MSNBC, Associated Press, and NPR’s “Living on Earth.” His photo essays are syndicated by Redux Pictures in New York.

Carlan’s project, Question of Power, opens at the New Mexico Museum of History in Santa Fe in 2025. Two decades of work, including black and white photographs, audio interviews, and short films will be showcased as part of an exhibit on climate change.

When he is not teaching, Carlan can be found riding his iron pony on two-lane highways across the American Southwest telling the stories of people, places, and the landscape.

Websites: carlantapp.com, questionofpower.org

Instagram: @carlantapp